Chris Rock

...a lot better in the moment than on the page. Sykes, like Chris Rock before her, perfects a certain steam-valve solution to what Condoleezza Rice once described as America's "birth defect" of racism. "You keep seeing these stories, 'Who is the...

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...has a minor hairstyle issue. A marketing major and former National Security Agency employee turned stand-up comic, Sykes honed her skill during five years on Chris Rock's nighttime talk-variety show for HBO. So when Fox started looking for...

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...with a joke. "It was kind of hard to see 'Pootie Tang' in the theater [with them] because it wasn't there that long," she says, referring to the largely unseen 2001 comedy in which she co-starred with Chris Rock. " 'Come on, baby,...

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...!! consisted of archival footage of Pryor's performances and testimonials from fellow comedians, including Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Wanda Sykes, and Denis Leary, on Pryor's influence on comedy. In 2004, Pryor was voted #1 on Comedy...

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...are the right people to bring in new viewers. "George is 48 and Wanda is 45," he remarks. "Can these guys be the voice of a new generation in the same way that Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock and Arsenio Hall were in their day? We'll see."

In this article: George Lopez, Wanda Sykes, TBS, Arsenio Hall, White House Correspondents Dinner, Kobe Bryant, Carlos Santana, and Ellen DeGeneres

...lackey, "Frank". The film was written and directed by fellow comedian Louis C.K.. It co-starred Lance Crouther, Wanda Sykes and Chris Rock among others. Attell also played "Efram the Driver" in the Independent feature My Suicidal...

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Bigger & Blacker Bigger & Blacker is an album by Chris Rock, originally released on July 13 1999, on the Dreamworks label. The album features live, stand-up comedy tracks recorded for an HBO special at the Apollo Theater in Harlem and...

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