{"id":1868381,"date":"2023-03-05T11:27:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T16:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/be-happy-youre-alive-in-the-age-of-chris-rock-the-modern-day-mark-twain\/"},"modified":"2023-03-05T11:27:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T16:27:57","slug":"be-happy-youre-alive-in-the-age-of-chris-rock-the-modern-day-mark-twain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/be-happy-youre-alive-in-the-age-of-chris-rock-the-modern-day-mark-twain\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Happy You\u2019re Alive In The Age Of Chris Rock, The Modern-Day Mark Twain"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbe-happy-youre-alive-in-the-age-of-chris-rock-the-modern-day-mark-twain%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1868381&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> The stage was his canvas. He was an animal and a predator. He went there. It was amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Rock knocks Dave Chappelle from the top every time I believe he is the greatest. Rock performed on Saturday night at a Baltimore venue in the premiere-ever Netflix comedy special.<\/p>\n<p>Title of the special: &#8220;Selective Outrage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The following is a discussion about abortion &#8220;If you need to pay for your own abortion, you need to get an abortion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On woke culture: &#8220;Right now we live in a world where the emergency room is filled up with motherf***ers with paper cuts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Meghan Markle: &#8220;It&#8217;s the royal family. They&#8217;re the original racists. They invented colonialism. They are the OG&#8217;s of racism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Everyone waited for him to address. &#8220;the slap heard &#8217;round the world.&#8221; Rock was slapped by Will Smith, an actor who slapped Rock almost a year ago at the Oscars. Rock has only spoken sparingly about it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not Saturday night. The real thing will be revealed when you watch the special, but this is the simplified version.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Will Smith practices selective outrage because everyone that knows what happened, everybody that really knows, knows I had nothing to do with that s***. I didn&#8217;t have any entanglements,&#8221; Rock,<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"c-emoji c-emoji__medium c-emoji--inline\" data-qa=\"emoji\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-188165\"><\/span>\u00a0<b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now I normally wouldn&#8217;t talk about this s***. But for some reason these n***** put that s*** on the internet. I have no idea why two talented people would do something that f***** low down. What the f***?&#8221; He said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve all been cheated on, everybody in here has been cheated on. None of us have been interviewed by the person that cheated on us on television, like, \u2018Hey I was sucking somebody else&#8217;s d***, how did that make you feel?&#8217; Why the f*** would you do that s***?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rock said of Jada pinkett-Smith: &#8220;Nobody&#8217;s picking on this b****, she started it. Nobody was picking on her. And then this n**** gives me a f*** concussion, OK. What the f***, man?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rock didn&#8217;t just sit there, he took the slap. That, too, he addressed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of people are like, \u2018Chris why didn&#8217;t you do nothing back?&#8217; Because I got parents that&#8217;s why, because I was raised. And you know what my parents taught me? Don&#8217;t fight in front of white people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The mic was dropped and he walked away. Next to him was a very \u2014 very \u2014 large bodyguard. Even comedians need protection in this age of selective outrage.<\/p>\n<p>It got off to an explosive start. Rock said it just 30 seconds after the start. &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna&#8217; try to do a show without offending anyone,&#8221; One person in the crowd shouted something. Rock showed right away who was in command: &#8220;N**** sit down!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Never again was the heckler heard.<\/p>\n<p>Rock is among the top social commentators of our time \u2014 think a modern-day Mark Twain. This is the man who actually did it. &#8220;N***** Vs. Black People&#8221; The former claimed the latter glorified inattention and laziness, and boasted about taking care of even the smallest details.<\/p>\n<p>The 58 year-old comic was unafraid to get right on the topic of the day Saturday. He started by taking shots at people who don&#8217;t get his jokes. &#8220;triggered&#8221; Believe that &#8220;words hurt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You never know who might get triggered. You say the wrong thing, motherf***ers get scared. You know what people say, \u2018Words hurt.&#8217; Anybody that says that words hurt has never been punched in the face,&#8221; Rock, &#8220;Words hurt \u2014 when you write them on a brick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rock offered some guidance. &#8220;Don&#8217;t fall into the woke trap at all.&#8221; He stated that he supported equal rights and social justice for all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thing I have a problem with is the selective outrage. One person does something, they get canceled. Somebody does the exact same thing, nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This phenomenon Rock Dubbed &#8220;selective outrage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just a couple days after Hershey&#8217;s released a candy bar on International Women&#8217;s Day that featured a transgender \u2014 the wrapper said &#8220;HerShe&#8221; \u2014 Rock took aim at all the woke businesses out there, trying to pitch their social awareness to sell more product.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u2018We like to give back. We don&#8217;t even like the money. We like to give back.&#8217; I was in the mall the other day, I went by the store Lululemon, I walk by and in the window of every Lululemon there&#8217;s a sign that says, \u2018We don&#8217;t support racism, sexism, discrimination, or hate,'&#8221; He said. &#8220;And I&#8217;m like, \u2018who gives a f\u2014?&#8217; You&#8217;re just selling yoga pants. I don&#8217;t need your yoga pants politics. Tell me how you work on b\u2014 sweat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rock later hit an easy target \u2014 the royal family. Rock ripped Meghan Markle (half-black) for being the victim. Oprah Winfrey claimed that some members of her royal family had questioned the blackness of a baby with Prince Harry, who is ultra-white.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u2018Oprah, they&#8217;re so racist they wanted to know how brown the baby was going to be,'&#8221; Rock played Markle, &#8220;I&#8217;m like, \u2018That&#8217;s not racist, because even black people want to know how brown the baby going to be. S***, we check behind the ears. That&#8217;s a scientific test because you&#8217;ve got to know what kind of black child you going to get,'&#8221; He said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know her dilemma: black girl trying to be accepted by her white in-laws. Oh, it&#8217;s hard. It&#8217;s so hard, it&#8217;s very hard \u2013 but it ain&#8217;t as hard as a white girl trying to be accepted by her black in-laws. Now that s*** is really hard,&#8221; He said. &#8220;I&#8217;m like, \u2018If you black and you wanted to be accepted by your white in-laws then you need to marry a Kardashian because they accept everybody.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The author views are his own, and they do not represent the opinions of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl, a journalist covering politics for over 35 years has served as White House correspondent at a national newspaper for 12 years. For four years, he was the Drudge Report&#8217;s a.m. Editor. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/be-happy-youre-alive-in-the-age-of-chris-rock-the-modern-day-mark-twain\">Be Happy You&#8217;re Alive In The Age Of Chris Rock, The Modern-Day Mark Twain<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stage was his canvas. He was an animal and a predator. He went there. It was amazing. Chris Rock knocks Dave Chappelle from the top every time I believe he is the greatest. Rock performed on Saturday night at a Baltimore venue in the premiere-ever Netflix comedy special. 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