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Jul 10, 2024 · The comic's 1999 stand-up special premiered on HBO when he had the most to lose — and he pulled no punches with its provocative, no-holds-barred humor.
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Jul 8, 1999 · In “Bigger & Blacker,” the budding superstar of stage and screens both large and small takes no prisoners in a wickedly original, brutally honest hour of sheer observational brilliance.
Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker: Directed by Keith Truesdell. With Chris Rock, Slick Rick, Doug E. Fresh, Monteria Ivey. Chris Rock's third HBO comedy special shows him performing his stand-up routine at Apollo Theater in Harlem.
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- Documentary, Comedy
- Keith Truesdell
- 1999-07-10
Nov 3, 2023 · Chris Rock has long talked about his broke childhood. In "Bigger and Blacker," he explains how they had no money or insurance to cover medical care.
Bigger & Blacker is an HBO production filmed in the Apollo Theater and is brilliant satire from the perspective of an African-American. Rock lays the smack down on topics such as school violence, gun control, irresponsible parents, neglected fathers, infidelity, bigotry, and the poor state of health care.
Dec 4, 2014 · At the top of his 1999 special Bigger and Blacker, he argues that the nation doesn't need gun control, it needs bullet control. There would be no more innocent bystanders, Rock says,...
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Jul 10, 2024 · The comic's 1999 stand-up special premiered on HBO when he had the most to lose — and he pulled no punches with its provocative, no-holds-barred humor.
