Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chris Rock isn't just getting the last laugh, he's getting the biggest laugh, the gettin'-paid laugh. Maybe he had to get whupped upside the head by some sixth-grader to get here, maybe he had to play a bellhop in Beverly Hills Ninja, but he has arrived and is on Hollywood's hot list...
...year-old comic-actor is currently co-starring in Lethal Weapon 4, the latest installment of the cop-action franchise. He nearly steals the show as the voice of a guinea pig in Eddie Murphy's hit comedy Dr. Dolittle. Rock is co-starring in a comedy-fantasy due out early next year called Dogma, which also stars buzzed-about actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and is directed by hot indie filmmaker Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy). On Aug. 21, Rock begins a new season of his critically lauded, superhip HBO talk show, The Chris Rock Show. And Rock recently...
Only in show biz would you have to get away with being honest. Rock's been getting away with it for years. He started at age 18 at the New York City comedy club Comic Strip Live. Owner Richard Tienken says Rock's act was raw at first: hooker tells man she'll do anything for $300. Man answers, Paint my house, b_____! But then, hanging around the club, Rock began to see comics like Eddie Murphy (an early Rock booster) and George Carlin at work. Rock's own act got smarter, bolder, and in 1990 he landed...
...Rock plans to stick to comedies for now. "To me, Jim Carrey's most impressive work is Dumb & Dumber," Rock says. "It's society's ignorance about how hard comedy is that people go, 'Now he's really doing something in The Truman Show.' There are 30 guys in Hollywood who could do Truman. There's only one guy who could do Dumb & Dumber...
...Rock, pain has turned to pleasure. He smiles as he recalls a day not too long ago when he was walking around a studio lot in Hollywood and ran into Will Smith. And then he ran into Chris Tucker. And then he looked in the papers and saw that Dr. Dolittle was the No. 1 film. "It's a good time to be a young, black comedian," says Rock, who is looking for a film to do with Tucker. "Of course, that's easy for me to say because I'm one of the people working...