Chris Rock-on McCain, Hillary, Rev.Wright, and Obama

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The comedian was at his best when he was topical, discussing politics. He pointed out that if elected, John McCain will be 72 when he takes office ("How are you going to make decisions about the future when you aren't going to be here?") and that Hillary Rodham Clinton stayed in the race long after she had lost ("Nice girls like to leave the club before the lights come on").

Clinton, he said, should have known she would lose when she lost Iowa, a state with only four people and a state that only bought five copies of Michael Jackson's "Thriller."

Obviously excited by the prospects of Barack Obama winning the presidency -- he said white people should expect black people to take off the day after the election -- he wondered why Obama had to dissociate himself from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

"What did the Rev. Jeremiah Wright do? A 75-year-old black man who doesn't like white people. Do you know any other kind of 75-year-old black man? His whole school class was lynched."

In his somewhat too long 100-minute set, Rock covered such topics as poverty (he tells his 5-year-old kid, "When I was your age, we were so poor I couldn't be 5 until I was 9"), women with large breasts and the fact that he thinks Osama bin Laden never existed ("He's a 7-foot-tall Muslim with diabetes who lives in a cave like Dr. Evil. There is no electricity, but his camcorder is always charged. He makes more movies than Sam Jackson").

As always, he also delineated with considerable insight the difference between blacks and whites, and between men and women. Almost none of these jokes can be quoted here.

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/entertainment.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-07-12-0138.html

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1. Hope this will be on HBO soon

Can't wait.