Funny How: Letters to a Young Comedian

Funny How: Letters to a Young Comedian

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Chris Rock on bombing and how writing works

"You throw out a bunch of ideas and most of them suck, but sometimes they hit.”

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Matt Ruby
Jul 26, 2023
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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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