The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 93
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- West Palm Beach, Florida
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TGIF The Palm Beach Post JUNE 11, 1993 Page 23 Chris Rock rolls into West Palm By ERNESTINE WILLIAMS Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Few people have not been exposed to comedian Chris Rock. Some know him from the movies: He's the lead rapper in his most recent movie, CB4, and he was the crack addict turned informant in New Jack City. Television fans may recall his militant attitude as Nat on Saturday Night Live. Today, Saturday and Sunday, audiences in West Palm Beach will catch his brash, streetwise and politically sharp stand-up act at the Comedy Corner, 2000 S. Dixie Highway.
Five years ago when he appeared at the club, nobody knew who he was. "Most times you go to a comedy club, you're going to see some guy that you've never seen Rock says. "It's much better when they come out to see you." Ten years from now, Rock hopes to be an established producer and writer. And he wants stand-up to be in the picture as well. "I hope I'm doing it because I want to do it," he says, "and not because I have to." The world of movies, late night television and comedy club performances are a long way from Rock's childhood in a middle-class home in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.
The son of a teacher and a newspaper truck driver, Rock was bused to a predominantly white school, where he was faced with name-calling and racial slurs, he says. "I hated school." He dropped out at age 17, earned his high school equivalency diploma and tried community college for a year, he says. "But by then I was too warped on school," Rock says. "I was messed up, just like a kid that's been abused. I couldn't function.
I was too paranoid." He eventually turned to standup comedy, something he always considered, but never tried until eight years ago when he auditioned on a whim at Catch a Rising Star in New York City. Rock also wrote and produced CB4, which forced him to stretch THE MERMAID LOUNGE 2 FOR 1 DANCERS FOR YOU OPEN SUN. 2PM NOW HIRING 4425 SOUTHERN WPB BE THERE To Wear Fun Stuff ISLAND RESORT SHOP Ocean Mall 848-7100 Singer Island SMOKE FREE SINGLES, Inc. 305-781-2438 DANCE Every FRIDAY 9-1 Hilton, I-95 Hillsboro Dressy Casual $9. non-members DANCE EVERY SUNDAY BIG BAND MUSIC OF GENE TUSA BAND Donation $500 One Hour of FREE Line Dance Instruction 7:00 00 8:00 p.m., Jane Muller, Instructor ST.
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"I would love it if they had these great movies written for me, but that doesn't happen, so I'm going to have to write more movies." CB4 grossed $18 million on a $6 million budget, he says. Chris Rock appears today, Saturday and Sunday at the Comedy Corner. Show times are 8:30 and 10:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
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