Chris Rock

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material. ”

I don't believe I can offend you in a comedy club. I don't believe I can offend you in a concert. A comedy club is a place where you work out material; you're trying material. ”

If I find a comedy club where no one's camera works, I'll go. ”

Show me one guy or woman as funny as Rodney Dangerfield or as good as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, or Joan Rivers. There are a lot of good comics out there, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what you have is a bunch of situational comics. ”

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy. ”

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men. ”

Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself. ”

Hollywood's just not funny. ”

My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars. And I bought a red Corvette for $45,000 dollars. I'm thinking, 'I've got 45 grand left!' Taxes didn't even come into my equation. At the end of the first year of making 90 grand I was 25, 30 in the hole. We live in this baller, spend-money culture. ”

I'm an independent, but I got to admit I lean Democratic. ”