IMO, he is the second best comic of modern times...after Richard Pryor.  Robin Willimas would be third.  Funniest stand up routine I have ever seen was Pryor's first, "Live in Concert", from 1979, and it was so poigniant that I was laughing through tears at times.  Next funniest was Rock's first HBO special.

Well, there's a point we disagree on...

Chris Rock is about as funny (to me) as, oh, say, racism or bigotry.  I find him annoying and obnoxious, his performances are often so pointed as to be preachy, and he has a pronounced tendency to try wring a joke for more than it's worth.

Of course, that's just me...if you enjoy his humor, then have a good time!

Yoda

I saw Sinbad at Humphrey's and my stomach hurt from laughing nonstop for two hours.

There's a guy who is very funny, yet does so without the vulgarity and distastefulness that Chris Rock does.

I think Chris Rock is funny, but he could say the same thing, lose the vulgarity and poor taste and it would still be funny, if not more so.

Jay Leno and David Letterman bore me.

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we can be involved in this hobby and/or profession and still like the fact that somebody can do humor without being dirty or crude. Good taste lives!

I used to think like you.  I was 17 and I walked out of a house a bunch of my HS friends were listening to an album of Richard Pryor's in because of all the dirty words.  Then I went into the Army, and I got surrounded by people who spoke like this all the time.  I realized that the words weren't dangerous, that people were dangerous.  

I don't laugh at Chris Rock's performance because I think vulgarity by itself is funny.  However, if his humor, which I think is funny, is delivered in vulgarity, it doesn't keep me from appreciating it.

Good taste is not synonymous with good manners.

It's not the vulgarity that puts me off...I did 23 years in the Navy, and quite frankly, I still use some colorful language from time to time.  

I just don't think he's funny.  But, whatever turns your pickle green.

Yoda

i saw it...it was okay... on a ter scale, id give it an eight.marylin