Chris Rock on bombing and how writing works
"You throw out a bunch of ideas and most of them suck, but sometimes they hit.”
I once saw a Chris Rock set that the NY Post wrote about with the headline: “Chris Rock’s jokes about sexual harassment bomb.”
“Nobody was laughing. There were many boos and many women who were telling him he was a sexist pig. Two people got kicked out.”
But that misses the point.
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