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Jerry Seinfeld retracts claim that the extreme left is ruining comedy: 'It's not true'
(www.usatoday.com)
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That was a truly awful video, and Chris wasn’t even objecting, he was going along with it, as can be expected from the guy whose most infamous comedy bit is about how there’s good black people and there are slurs.
And then CK just really reveling about using the word constantly, with everyone laughing. Bizarre video.
I've always wondered how Chris rock feels about his legacy being "giving racists a pass on calling black people the n word"
Based on that video, doesn't seem to really bother him.
He also coined “the friend zone” in the same special. Honestly though I don’t think it’s fair to fault him for that. Chuds steal things and recontextualize them in a way that removes irony, humour and nuance. It’s their whole thing. The solution to that isn’t to just make art that has no irony, humour or nuance. That’s just letting idiots bully us out of making anything that doesn’t talk down to its audience.
I thought the term friend zone came from that episode of Scrubs.
I just double checked. Scrubs started in 2001. Chris Rock’s Bigger and Blacker special came out in 1999.