That Time Arsenio cut Chris Rock off for getting at Johnny Carson

[Doobie Doo]

Backstory, I was reading a review of CR's Tamborine and read this paragraph and it had the link to the clip

"Mr. Rock’s humor has long married a supremely controlled craft with an appealing sense of danger. “Yeah, I said it” lets you know he wasn’t supposed to. When he started in New York clubs in the 1980s, he closed some sets by saying: “I was in South Africa the other day. Or was it Boston?” After telling that joke on “The Arsenio Hall Show,” the host asked him if he ever worried that his jokes would upset people. Mr. Rock responded that his next target would be Johnny Carson because of a tabloid report that he had a black grandchild he did not financially support. Mr. Hall cut him off, abruptly ending the interview."




In Chris Rock’s Netflix Special ‘Tamborine,’ a Humbler Master at Work

 

[Doobie Doo]

bump

 

[TillWeDie]

Damn

 

[Hugs]

p*ssy ass Arsenio
That's goddam hilarious

Should've let him riff on some Letterman shyt

 

[Benefited]

He didn't end it that "abrubtly"

Even told is the executive producer was the one being scary.

Arsenio had on Farakhan

 

[Heelish]

04:10-04:30

 

[get these nets]

"black and ugly jokes about Grace Jones and Miles Davis"..god, i hated the 1980s

.....CR must cringe thinking about these jokes


"I'm going after Carson because of story I read in the Enquirer"
???

 

[www.THUG.com]

I did some digging on Google and Johnny Carson and his son are straight up inherently evil bytches.

Daddy demanded that his son disown the Black girlfriend and child, and his son obliged. The son lied to his preggo Black girlfriend and told her that he had AIDS to persuade her into aborting his baby.

Link to story from JET on Google

An older pic of the daughter:

 

[Devilinurear]

"black and ugly jokes about Grace Jones and Miles Davis"..god, i hated the 1980s

.....CR must cringe thinking about these jokes


"I'm going after Carson because of story I read in the Enquirer"
???

To be fair he was in his early 20s. He didn't even have a lot of set up.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

I did some digging on Google and Johnny Carson and his son are straight up inherently evil bytches.

Daddy demanded that his son disown the Black girlfriend and child, and his son obliged. The son lied to his preggo Black girlfriend and told her that he had AIDS to persuade her into aborting his baby.

Link to story from JET on Google

An older pic of the daughter:

So it was TRUE!!

 

[EBK String]

I did some digging on Google and Johnny Carson and his son are straight up inherently evil bytches.

Daddy demanded that his son disown the Black girlfriend and child, and his son obliged. The son lied to his preggo Black girlfriend and told her that he had AIDS to persuade her into aborting his baby.

Link to story from JET on Google

An older pic of the daughter:

vintage bed wenching

 

[dtownreppin214]

04:10-04:30

he's mocking Rickles' act.

 

[Stuntone]

That was some grade A C00ning from Chris.

Arsenio didnt do anything wrong

 

[clyma est mort]

You ask me do I like Arsenio?
About as much as the bicentennial

 

[Doobie Doo]

To be fair he was in his early 20s. He didn't even have a lot of set up.

It was the 90s. Chris's humor then was no different then the shyt on Def Comedy Jam. I always think it's odd when 90s babies or people born after a certain time period want to be offended over shyt like this. I might've saw it as a preteen or teen, laughed my ass off went to school the next day and talked about it with my friends. I never had a negative image over it because it was comedy and I have the ability to separate a stand up comedian from a politician or more serious commentary. And it would never be looked at as anything more than standup but due to the Internet we got racist and lames who take this footage and turn it into propaganda for their cause and that's where everybody who wasn't there wants to be offended on behalf of everybody else. Obviously it wouldn't work now, shyt like Eddie's jokes from the 80s, whole lotta comedians from the 90s but I ain't gonna look at comedy as anything other than comedy.