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Rock is like a hotel shower: his controls are hard to understand, and you never know whether what's going to come out of him is going to be soothing or scalding. "It's good, it's intelligent," says Allen about Rock's stand-up. "He sucks the audience in quickly and keeps them." And his unpredictability is part of what makes his comic take so fresh. "Somebody should always be offended," Rock says. "Somebody in your life should always be like, 'Why did you have to do that?' Always. That's just being a real artist. That...
...like a civil war going on with black people," Rock declared. "There are two sides: there's black people, and there's niggas. And niggas have got to go." Niggas, in Rock's view, were a source of ignorance, violence, family dysfunction. It was a riff that resembled traditional stand-up comedy in the way that an open wound sometimes resembles a smile...
...Washington bureau chief. Cooper will help shape coverage of the 2000 campaign while continuing to write about politics. Fortunately, this will not require complete sobriety. As demonstrated by his piece on George Bush in this week's Notebook section, Cooper is lending the humor he has honed as a stand-up comic. "Matt works in clubs in New York and Washington," says Jim Kelly, deputy managing editor. "The big plus for our readers is that they can enjoy him without springing for the two-drink minimum...
...former governor played the audience like a stand-up comedian, cracking many jokes about his failed presidential...
...former governor played the audience like a stand-up comedian, cracking many jokes about his failed presidential...