From Cindy Adams
Saturday night. Special invitation issued months ago. The host — Anthony Pratt, executive chairman of Pratt Industries. His full-page NY Times ads run constantly. The family is Triple A in Australia.
Pratt does nothing halfway. Dinner’s second course brought — surprise! — Chris Rock. No big announcement. Nobody had seen him. Nobody heard he’d be there. He’d been officially hidden.
Casually dressed — but costing more than the sirloin — he said, “Our new push will be outer space. We’ll put all the Mexicans on the rockets.”
Big applause. Big excitement.
A very short set. Barely minutes when he saw something the audience did not. We faced the stage. He faced us. Behind us the back walls and exit doors.
Whatever he saw — or thought he saw — upset him. Like he went momentarily ape and shouted something like he wasn’t supposed to be taped, videoed, reported or whatever else wasn’t supposed to happen.
Didn’t complain. Didn’t explain. Didn’t do one more minute. Barrelling quickly, forcefully, through people to the exit doors, he kept bitching loudly and, without a second’s hesitation, stormed out — never to return.
The stunned audience was redeemed with Keith Urban. He did an hour and a half. Everyone dancing. Audience participation — and all but Rock left happy.
Who knows if Pratt will get his down payment back.
19 comments:
Sounds like Chris
Rock was disrespected
“Our new push will be outer space. We’ll put all the Mexicans on the rockets.”
I guess he didn’t want the world to know he was out there tap dancing for foreign white people when there are so many Amerikan ones he could sell his dignity too. The “joke” isn’t even funny and the article says those over stuffed beasts howled in laughter. 🤦🏾♀️
IT'S TIME FOR THIS DUDE TO GO AWAY FOR A MINUTE OR TWO CUS IT'S BEEN ALL BAD MEDIA COVERAGE FOR HIM FOR AT LEAST TWO TO THREE YEARS OR SO.
Chris if we put ALL the Mexicans on rockets who’s going to cut my grass, paint my house, fix my roof, housekeep my house and make those chimichangas I love? How Sway?
I bet Will Smith was in the audience
His ex wife was there maybe. That’s the only thing that would make me leave a function in a hurry
Errbody hate Chris
Stop filming and recording everything.
Private means private.
He got played. Now will this hurt his career? Maybe not.
Chris was RIGHT on this. IF it was supposed to be a private show they should not have tapped him, especially since it was not publicized. That was the arrangement nor pay grade. 💯
Where is Will Smith when you need him?
Tottaly disrespectful to the privacy of everyone invited to this event
Doesn’t bother me. He’s still among those comedians who are trying out new material and don’t want it recorded showing up on youtube. You know he had an arrangement and if that was the deal, out he goes.
^ Will is somewhere at a settlement table with them former fO victims before one calls his name. He has to negotiate for two him and ol boy he married to.
I know he misses the 90's when you.could tap dance in private..
@11:16am CrayCray
When Coonin' Goes Left. I mean if Cindy Adams is reporting on it it's like she's kind of calling im out. Behind closed doors and many folks are just as racist misogynist and be littering as those who speak on soap boxes in front of large audiences.
The fact that the entire room laughed at the joke and then carried on when Keith Urban went up there and sang some dry ads songs for an hour and a half should tell you all you need to know.
CR HAVEN'T BEEN FUNNY SINCE HIS "BRING THE PAIN" COMEDY SPECIAL OVER 20YEARS OR SO AGO.
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