Chris Rock

[discoprincess]

May 4, 2017 8:02:24 GMT -4 Ladybug said:

I'm sure the celebrity Internet sleuths will have this figured out pretty soon. Who has he costarred with recently?

There were rumors of him getting cozy with Rosario Dawson.

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I remember seeing him in an interview promoting Top Five where he kept going on about Rosario Dawson and thinking Dude! You have a wife! As a married man, his comments were inappropriate. If he and Rosario Dawson were having an affair, he wasn't trying very hard to hide it.

[Auroranorth]

I'll give him props for this, at least:

Rock mentions in his act that he thought he could get away with bad behavior in his marriage because he was the famous breadwinner. He now knows the opposite is true. "That's bullshit," he says, rolling his eyes. "That actually goes the other way. My faults are magnified. Your significant other, if they really love you, has a high opinion of you. And you let them down."
Rock admits that he has toned down the marriage part to keep the peace and not be a dick. "It's not fair," he says. "I have a mic, she doesn't. God forbid people are bugging her in the supermarket. That's not cool. I'm going to have to see her at weddings and graduations."

[laboria]

May 4, 2017 15:45:00 GMT -4 Auroranorth said:

I'll give him props for this, at least:

Rock mentions in his act that he thought he could get away with bad behavior in his marriage because he was the famous breadwinner. He now knows the opposite is true. "That's bullshit," he says, rolling his eyes. "That actually goes the other way. My faults are magnified. Your significant other, if they really love you, has a high opinion of you. And you let them down."
Rock admits that he has toned down the marriage part to keep the peace and not be a dick. "It's not fair," he says. "I have a mic, she doesn't. God forbid people are bugging her in the supermarket. That's not cool. I'm going to have to see her at weddings and graduations."

I hope that last part is true. I saw him a couple of months ago, and fully 45 minutes was based on marriage. He didn't speak negatively about his ex, though.

And I am really trying to remember if he said it was a former member of DC, or an original member of DC. I think it was the latter.

Edit: I just read the article, and I was at that first Richmond show. I wish I had known ?uestlove was there, because I have loved The Roots since their first album. But we were in the last row in the top balcony, so I wouldn't have seen anybody, and could barely see Chris.

[SApril]

Does he still not claim the child her adopted and raised?

[Mutagen]

Even with that bit of self-awareness, he's always struck me as so weirdly bitter about marriage. Maybe he's just not the type cut out for monogamy but dude, no one put a gun to your head and made you walk down the aisle. What's his deal?

[narm]

Yeah, I like Chris but his marriage issue just seem so deeeeeeep and you are right; he is terribly bitter. I always felt sorry for his wife.

[Babycakes]

Even back in the Bring the Pain era, I found it hard to believe that Chris was married, yet alone, happily. It's always been right there in his comedy. I think he felt he had to get married, because of his parents. He grew up in a 2 parent home, so he felt that he should continue that tradition. He married someone "better" than he deserved. She was more attractive and educated than he probably thought he deserved, and his mom probably pressured him into marrying her, thinking he couldn't do much better. I don't have receipts, but this is a feeling that I've got from the interviews I've read/seen from all 3 (Chris, Mom, and Malaak). Chris didn't have the looks, but he had the personality and fame to pull a decent amount of women. He probably wanted to play the field, and eventually settle down and have kids, but got married too soon. He was trying to live in both worlds, player and family guy. He couldn't maintain it, and that led to his resentment of his wife and mom. Praying that his mom would die? Yikes. I know he framed it as not having his kids being there when she died, but damn, you should be praying for her speedy recovery. Maybe I'm over analyzing, but I've been following Chris since SNL, and he's never seemed content.

[dragonflie]

I also get this real sense that he is really bitter about money/being the "breadwinner". It seems like he may have some harsh ideas/expectations of the female/male or wife/husband roles. He, more than once, seems to throw out jabs about his (ex)wife and how much money he makes... how "nice" it is to be with someone who has money now... how much he had to pay for the divorce. And that really throws me off; they have 2 kids. I assume as he was travelling all over the place (screwing other women) his wife was looking after his children. Seems pretty low to me to be bitter about $$.

[Ginger]

May 5, 2017 17:12:41 GMT -4 Babycakes said:

Even back in the Bring the Pain era, I found it hard to believe that Chris was married, yet alone, happily. It's always been right there in his comedy. I think he felt he had to get married, because of his parents. He grew up in a 2 parent home, so he felt that he should continue that tradition. He married someone "better" than he deserved. She was more attractive and educated than he probably thought he deserved, and his mom probably pressured him into marrying her, thinking he couldn't do much better. I don't have receipts, but this is a feeling that I've got from the interviews I've read/seen from all 3 (Chris, Mom, and Malaak). Chris didn't have the looks, but he had the personality and fame to pull a decent amount of women. He probably wanted to play the field, and eventually settle down and have kids, but got married too soon. He was trying to live in both worlds, player and family guy. He couldn't maintain it, and that led to his resentment of his wife and mom. Praying that his mom would die? Yikes. I know he framed it as not having his kids being there when she died, but damn, you should be praying for her speedy recovery. Maybe I'm over analyzing, but I've been following Chris since SNL, and he's never seemed content.

He's made all of this exceedingly clear even to people who don't follow him closely. It seemed like he walked down the aisle at gunpoint and was always resentful of his wife, resentful of marriage, and bitter about his life.

I'm actually surprised he said anything gracious about his ex-wife because he never seemed to like her even when he was married to her.