I like Chris’s joke.

I must say I did chuckle at the end, my bad!

FIRST!!!!

WOW!! A very true statement, but inappropriate right now.

I saw Chris Rock at Palm Springs do this bit for his NO APOLOGIES TOUR. It was funny as hell when he said. But when you take this joke out of the context it was in, of course its going to sound crazy.

I thought it was pretty funny. I know that if I was in Michelle’s Obama’s place I would probably be saying “No- WE won the presidency sweetie.” Especially considering the fact that Michelle is so well qualified herself - Princeton undergrad, and Harvard Law School. She’s a bad chick and Barack knows that. That’s why he wifed her up! Maybe she won’t throw her friends in the Cabinet, but I’m sure we would see them somewhere in the future political framework.

I like Chris Rock but somethings need to be left unsaid! Especially right now Obama got a lot of things going against him as it is.

Khaliah wrote:

I must say I did chuckle at the end, my bad!

I did too, especially @ Kiki can fight. I can just hear him saying it.

I mean Chris…I’m not laughing.

Jef-Ro Dollar wrote:

I saw Chris Rock at Palm Springs do this bit for his NO APOLOGIES TOUR. It was funny as hell when he said. But when you take this joke out of the context it was in, of course its going to sound crazy.

i agree, I saw him Toronto…they are taking it out of context…

GODIVA wrote:

Khaliah wrote:

I must say I did chuckle at the end, my bad!

I did too, especially @ Kiki can fight. I can just hear him saying it.

I just about died when I read this! It’s funny and you can hear his voice as you read it.

chris rock needs to grow up it’s time for his cheating mouth to go away

I thought it was funny too…. When I first started reading it, I thought “Oh Lord, here we go with this ish” but I think he ended it very well.

Come on Chris…not too funny. This isn’t the movie that you played in called “Head of State.” Michelle wouldn’t be like that. She is too classy. But Chris is a comedian, so…………

It’s just cooooooomedy! Rock is controversial and the fact that Obama’s wife is totally opposite then his comedic description that joke shouldn’t be taken literally.

Learn to discern… yeah I agree it’s out of context of the rest of his stand-up and tour name is “NO APOLOGIES”

Actually I’ve seen him perform this joke on his tour and it didn’t seem bad. When he said it almost all of us were laughing though.

Natasha, I went to his London concert at the Hammersmith Apolo (Jan 25th 2008), and he preformed this joke. At the time it was funny but in retrospect everyone was like, that concert was SHIT. the warm up act was better than him. I forgot who he was, but he’s known. He was really good.

I was really expecting some Never Scared type jokes. That would have made my night.

Now, is he really using all of the same jokes he performed in London in the states too? wow talk about recycling!

I think it was funny

I thought that was funny. LOL!!

Shut up, Chris Rock. Let’s let Obama get in office first, before we give people another reason why we CAN’T be in office. You know that’s just one more thing to be taken out of context as gospel.

LMAO, i thought this was funny as shit

but when thinking of the forum he said it in (rolling stone magazine) know “white- eyes” would read it and totally misinterpret it, its not funny

but had he said it in a black publication or to a black audience, i dont think there was harm done— cuz i think we would have “gotten” it as a harmless joke

GODIVA wrote:

Khaliah wrote:

I must say I did chuckle at the end, my bad!

I did too, especially @ Kiki can fight. I can just hear him saying it.

Girl It was really funny @ kiki can fight, that is my nickname!

shoeluva wrote:

GODIVA wrote:

Khaliah wrote:

I must say I did chuckle at the end, my bad!

I did too, especially @ Kiki can fight. I can just hear him saying it.

I just about died when I read this! It’s funny and you can hear his voice as you read it.

I think some of you are taking this joke out of order…let’s all just relax, release….and breath…..it’s not that serious….we have enough going on…in this race and in our personal lives….then to get your panties in a bunch about a joke….everything is not serious all the time….lighten up a little will ya??!!

I thought it was funny shoot its kinda true if you think about it! lol….yall need to calm down its comedy we need laughter right now instead of fighting in being so serious all the time in this world…sheesh

I’m not amused but I do find some honesty in his joke. Black women are very loyal and tend to give back to their people unlike Black men.

Lihten up guys, chris is a comedian. The brotha is just doing his job. And magazine articles are done months in advance so I am sure there was no mean intention behind the joke. If any candidate can take a joke, Obama is the one. Maybe he could even use a chuckle right now…

I agree - the quote was taken out of context. I also saw the No Apologies Tour, in Chicago though - Chris was killin it! He was amazing - before he talked about how amazing black women are, but shoot, watch out now if you tryna make her a first lady, lol. That was more of it. It’s not like he’s coming out saying Michele Obama wouldn’t handle hers. He also went on to say how fine he thinks she is, lol:)

Gotta love Chris - I hope he doesn’t catch flak for this - or that any major media outlets try and pick this up and run with it…

I just dont like Chris Rock…he’s just flat out lame to me..EFF the comments, its his whole persona..soo lame.

lmao..
it’s good friday - let’s kick back and have a laugh..
it’s all good…
when rock gets round to the new ny governor it will awesome…

1. I admit it is funny, but the timing is horrible. With all the drama around the campaign and with all the yt folks literally on a scavenger hunt for scandal, just not a good look.
2. Natasha, I love this blog and please don’t snap on me like I know you can do to people from time to time…but can we please be done with the JLo news? She sucks ass, and I’m not even close to the only one who feels that way.

HAHA! Chris is just too much! I agree with a previous poster- he siad that in the wrong magazine fo sho!

Blessed Good Friday to Everyone!

Yeah I’m sorry that was funny

I saw his show when he came to baltimore in Feb. He was very funny! alot of things that chris rocks said is always borderline, but sometimes right. he does not discriminate, he talks about what is on his mind,and what other people are thinking but afraid to say. You had to be there to hear the whole show, you can’t just laugh at the points you agree with and then have a straight face for the one’s you don’t. He was just talking about black women in general, not about obama’s wife directly, it’s comedy. If he would have said it two yrs ago or if he said it after the fact doesn’t matter. He didn’t put down Obama’s wife, after he said that, also said that the black woman would be the backbone of the president.

—-It was funny…just jokes…

I dont think its funny..Im so sick of black women being put down by everyone. Its even more annoying when a black man does it. I get its suppopsed to be funny..but we are talking about the future first lady..if she can’t get any damm respect, my ass wont be either. I’m so sick of other women being put on some sort of pedestal. I belive all women are beautiful..but why is it that black women seem to be the dirty, nasty, ugly one. Latina’s are automatically sexy, aisans are submissive, whites are “so much fun”..Blacks are____ hoes and bitches. Im just over it and sick of laughing about it…lets change it.
**getting off my soap box now**

I don’t think it’s offensive. It’s just not that funny. It seems like the joke has been done by him and many others many, many times before just in different forms. We get it-black women are controlling and ghetto. Change it up a little.

I would have laughed if it was funny. The joke was dry and the bad timing doesn’t help. Maybe I need to hear him deliver it or something.

MissPriss wrote:

Shut up, Chris Rock. Let’s let Obama get in office first, before we give people another reason why we CAN’T be in office. You know that’s just one more thing to be taken out of context as gospel.

ITA…
having a hard time getting from under the preacher already.. geesh.

and before i get bashed…i know them just jokes but hey give YT a reason and you know whats next..

is that u Mir??

oh.. and i laffed..lol

It’s funny. The end.

BWAAAHHH!!!! I needed that!

Thanks, Chris, for all the support. I’m sick of the jokes about black women having bad attitudes…blah, blah, blah. Yeah, we can AND will take it there if neccessary. BUT… we also know how to be nurturing, calm and supportive as well.

The joke would be true if he was married to a ghetto bunny

I got a laugh out of it! We should be careful not to get up in arms about every single statement- especially coming from someone like Chris Rock who is hella funny.

ooh jokes about stereotypes…that’s original.

chris is speaking gospel.

kaykay wrote:

ooh jokes about stereotypes…that’s original.

Right.

I MEAN IF IT WAS FUNNY I WOULD HAVE LAUGHED!
STEREOTYPES!

AND CHRIS IS NOT FUNNY NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS JOKE BUT PERIOD I WAS WATCHING HIS WACK DVD AND HE IS NOT FUNNY! KATT WILLIAMS IS FUNNY!

LOL @ kaykay….you are too funny

He has so much self hatred, it makes him very disgusting. He was never a favorite of mine. Thumbs down!

shouldn’t chris be worrying about his marriage to a BLACK WOMAN concerning his leaked convos with a pi…now that can bring out a lot of jokes…the sterotypical black woman joke is played

I don’t know, Chris Rock needs to sit down and be quiet for a while, I’m starting to wonder about him and his jokes.

I don’t think what Chris said is that bad and I have to admit, I chuckled at the end there too. If anything, I think we’re all wound a little too tightly about all this. Everybody is on edge! Maybe a little laughing might do us all some good. And honestly, it’s a compliment to black women. He’s saying no black woman is going to sit back lookin all weak, play second fiddle, and stand there like a blow-up doll (like our current First Lady). That’s why black women are all the hotness!

Ladies, lighten up! Ya’ll are getting way too serious. LOL “self hatred?” It was a joke and it was funny!!

I must admit that I have not heard the entire routine but, I take issue with Rock’s “joke”. It has been my experience that most jokes are seventy percent truth - that’s what makes them funny. They are usually the truth exaggerated. So for a person that already believes that African-American women have control or attitude issues, this “joke” is right on point. But, that is simply not true. Not all black women have attitudes or are mouthy or loud. However, when you look at the caricatures of us in the mainstream media, this is what is portrayed to be the truth about black women. As far as I am concerned, Rock’s comment only works to perpetuate an already damaging and erroneous stereotype. And for those of you who think that it is funny - would you feel the same way if it were a non-African-American comedian making the “joke”?

Wow! what a great way to help Hillary and the right wing nuts who want to show why black people shouldn’t have power.
Thanks Chris,
Love McCain and Hillary

break it down Nancy

nikki wrote:

I’m not amused but I do find some honesty in his joke. Black women are very loyal and tend to give back to their people unlike Black men.

WOW you hit it on the nail, I wish Chris was reading this quote right now!

Shoot, I laughed. I think Chris is hilarious. I can see if he said it like, in a ridiculous, black women bashing, disrespectful way, but he’s a comedian, he tells JOKES people. We can laugh at ourselves sometims, it won’t hurt.

Nancy wrote:

I must admit that I have not heard the entire routine but, I take issue with Rock’s “joke”. It has been my experience that most jokes are seventy percent truth - that’s what makes them funny. They are usually the truth exaggerated. So for a person that already believes that African-American women have control or attitude issues, this “joke” is right on point. But, that is simply not true. Not all black women have attitudes or are mouthy or loud. However, when you look at the caricatures of us in the mainstream media, this is what is portrayed to be the truth about black women. As far as I am concerned, Rock’s comment only works to perpetuate an already damaging and erroneous stereotype. And for those of you who think that it is funny - would you feel the same way if it were a non-African-American comedian making the “joke”?

PREACH!

For real, Nancy. This is just NOT the time for CLOWNS.

Its a joke….damn. If u were sitting in the audience in one of shows…most ppl would of laugh…and dont’ say u wouldn’t cuz ya probably would. This what happens when ish gets taken out of context…. of course its gonna look worst than it is. one its only words ya see, and two, you didn’t hear how it was said. Man, folks is sensitive. I’ve seen comedians say far worst things, and the women are usually the laughing their behinds off.

I don’t see whats the biggie. We have a black man runing for prez, and all of a sudden folks wanna get all sensitive, and take offensive, when last year, ya would of lol….

Is the timing wrong either way. NO, its a joke.

@Nancy, it absolutely would not be funny if a non-black person told this joke. However, since Chris is Black, with a Black momma, grandmomma, wife, daughters, etc, etc, etc, oh and he was raised in BK, he may know a thing or two about black women. My interpretation of the joke was that black women do not sit in the back, on mute; we have a voice and opinions and no one (not even the President) is going to make us play the background. Just my opinion!

GODIVA wrote:

@Nancy, it absolutely would not be funny if a non-black person told this joke. However, since Chris is Black, with a Black momma, grandmomma, wife, daughters, etc, etc, etc, oh and he was raised in BK, he may know a thing or two about black women. My interpretation of the joke was that black women do not sit in the back, on mute; we have a voice and opinions and no one (not even the President) is going to make us play the background. Just my opinion!

Ha ha good one for fancy nancy!! lol

How insulting to the Obamas.It was already said by a female reporter months ago that Michelle emasculated her husband, and now Cris would make an insensitive comment as that. People are taking things very literal, and who knows how sensitive Michelle is, she maybe offended by that statement. We don’t know someone’s level of tolerance. Cris needs to understand that his wife is not Michelle. But, why was the joke even necessary to make in the first place?

And people really have Michelle wrong, she was asked in an interview, what would she do if Obama cheated? She said, well I guess I never had him. Now, I would a black woman, as Cris describe say something like that?

Black comedians get me, whenever they’re doing stand-up or t.v. interviews, they always say, oh no black folks don’t do this, or black women don’t or wouldn’t. I’m sick and tired of that stereotype that all black people are the same. It’s not true, and comedians need to stop acting like it’s funny.

GODIVA wrote:

@Nancy, it absolutely would not be funny if a non-black person told this joke. However, since Chris is Black, with a Black momma, grandmomma, wife, daughters, etc, etc, etc, oh and he was raised in BK, he may know a thing or two about black women. My interpretation of the joke was that black women do not sit in the back, on mute; we have a voice and opinions and no one (not even the President) is going to make us play the background. Just my opinion!

Exactly!!

When has C. Rock ever been funny? Never! This is just another tired joke in his repertoire of tired jokes.

Black, white, male or female, I’m smart enough to know that I don’t have to laugh at all jokes.

I think this is an irresponsible comment to make at this crucial time in the campaign. I understand he’s a comedian, but people can take this literally. I think Mrs. Obama will be an excellent first lady. She is fierce!!!

I thought it was funny myself…the WE made the presidency part of course…most women would say that…u didn’t do it by yourself!! But that’s just how I took it.

LOL…nice staged for the photographers pics Ms Lopez…if that’s daily life ok…

Anyway…it was funny. Some of y’all need to have a coke and a smile.

supachoklit wrote:

1. I admit it is funny, but the timing is horrible. With all the drama around the campaign and with all the yt folks literally on a scavenger hunt for scandal, just not a good look.
2. Natasha, I love this blog and please don’t snap on me like I know you can do to people from time to time…but can we please be done with the JLo news? She sucks ass, and I’m not even close to the only one who feels that way.

I agree with everything you said and how you said it! Including excluding news or gossip about J-LO! I come to this site because she named it “YoungBlackandFabulous. J-LO is kinda young, she might even be a little fabulous, but she certainly isn’t Black.

is he really Chirs Rock?? or not??? on of my friends on pubspa dotcom just his superfan,, if this one is fake, i think he would drove crazy.. and may killed this one… but if this is true, he also would glad to die, he is the only man i know so crazy!!!

I don’t care if YBF doesn’t have a sense of humor and panties always in a wad. That stuff was funny and oh so true. A black woman could be president but not first lady. Man that was funny.

It’s just comedy…but to the average swing voters, it could be threatening…it’s like black folk need to chill out and let the man run his race…there will be time to laugh and joke once someone is selected regardless. Chris Rock means well…his jokes are not only meant to make one laugh your organs out but make you cognitively evaluate the state of our society be it moral or immoral. Chris has created a lane of his own, some are afraid to travel. I’m not offended by his jokes…rather the timing needs to be curbed at this point…the media needs fodder to survive. Let starve them out. No offense to you Natasha…it is what it is.

Peace.

it was funny, i am sure the obamas laughed

Monique wrote:

I dont think its funny..Im so sick of black women being put down by everyone. Its even more annoying when a black man does it. I get its suppopsed to be funny..but we are talking about the future first lady..if she can’t get any damm respect, my ass wont be either. I’m so sick of other women being put on some sort of pedestal. I belive all women are beautiful..but why is it that black women seem to be the dirty, nasty, ugly one. Latina’s are automatically sexy, aisans are submissive, whites are “so much fun”..Blacks are____ hoes and bitches. Im just over it and sick of laughing about it…lets change it.
**getting off my soap box now**

who are you?oprah?laugh girl,laugh!!!its funny coz that the way we are…and who have you been hanging out wit-whites?”so much fun”?i dont think so

supachoklit wrote:

1. I admit it is funny, but the timing is horrible. With all the drama around the campaign and with all the yt folks literally on a scavenger hunt for scandal, just not a good look.
2. Natasha, I love this blog and please don’t snap on me like I know you can do to people from time to time…but can we please be done with the JLo news? She sucks ass, and I’m not even close to the only one who feels that way.

funny,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

That’s funny! I love CR

chris rock is not funny nomore and he needs to stop telling jokes

Chris has never been funny to me, up until this point. Sisters will put a brother or any man in check quick. I still see him as ‘Pookie’ though, always will…

that was funny. and I have to agree, I can see myself hookin my girls up ith jobs in the whitehouse! lmao

I wasn’t going to comment till I saw his show last night in Atl. I will never again support a Chris Rock concert or movie. I don’t know if he is going through something with his wife but he made a habit of putting down black women through his entire show. Ever time he made offensive statements about black women & put white women on pedistol, I had to deal with to bleached blonds in front of me standing & clapping.

1-Chris said we hate white women cause we know that Rosie O’donnel can walk into any black club & pull a blk man before us, and she don’t even want a man…………WHITE WOMEN WERE ON THEIR FEET CLAPPING.

2-Chris said that we always accuse blk men of wanting a white women as soon ast the get a little money. He said, no we want them when we are broke but just could not afford them. WHITE WOMEN WERE ON THEIR FEET CLAPPING. I guess blk women are only good enough for broke brothas.

3-Then the joke about a blk woman being 1st Lady. When he said black women would not know their place, I had to deal with a bunch of white women on their feet clapping as this black man was putting us down.

Chris opening act was a 46yr old black man who was also bragging about his 20 something white girlfriend as if he finally achieved something. The tour should have been called the “I LOVE WHITE WOMEN TOUR.”

CHRIS ROCK DIDN’T SAY ONE POSITIVE THING ABOUT BLACK WOMEN DURING HIS ENTIRE SHOW.

I agree with Grace, I went to the show in ATL over the weekend and was embarrassed by all the statements he was making in regards to black women, he will never get my money again.

I see that Jlo’s daughter Emme looks like her daddy. At least she’ll be well-dressed.

Not the time or the place for that Chris and not funny. I hope he won’t be at the Inaugural Ball. Michelle is a great person in her own right, and she won’t have to speak up. She has a husband who lifts her up and her works will speak for themselves. A class act. Both of them. Chris Rock…trash.

his joke was disgusting and completely despicable. in a time when blacks are trying to make more progress and be seen as equal human beings, his jok,e was not funny. if anything, he should have talked about spitzer and his slut or how it would be to have a man taking the background to his wife. whether white or black, michelle is still a woman!

When I read this I thought it was wrong. But I attended his comedy show in which the joke was stated in Atlanta. I wasn’t offended at all. It was a freaking joke. I don’t go to comedy shows to get mad or nitpick at every comment to decide if it’s politically correct. His tour is called “No Apologies” for a reason. I actually laughed at the joke when he delivered it. Just posting the joke out of context is just as messed up as running Obama’s pastor’s comments over and over again…totally out of context.

I have been appalled and let me start here…

The lack of education and social awareness seen on this thread is so unfortunate. For the past 40 years, black people have been in the fron seat and at time even driving their own self-respect, diginity, upward mobility, love for oneself and each other etc etc…into the ditch.

Funny…please…I assume that Don Imus was funny last year when he made the joke about “nappy headed hoes”…it is techincally true isnt it…we have nappy hair (which we are taught to be ashamed of) and the world and our own men treat us and depict us as hoes.

Yes of course this will be too deep for a group of people who are shallow and ignorant as the ones on this thread.

Nancy and some of the others who saw this for what it is, Thank You.

One person said, “Some of y’all need to have a coke and a smile.” Sorry I am not a part of your house negro minstrel show. I am not going to smile in the face of disrespect.

One person said, “ho are you?oprah?laugh girl,laugh!!!its funny coz that the way we are…and who have you been hanging out wit-whites?”so much fun”?i dont think so”. Yeah if you hung around whites then you would not be laughing at such jokes. These stereotypes of us have been around for years and have been at the root of black subjugation. If some of you saw the disrespectful smears about Michelle Obama on predominately white sites then you would not be laughing. Chris Rock and them are all on the same page.

The very construction of black womanhood in American society has been dehumanizing and demonizing. The sad part is that blacks are now giving it life. You guys are embarssing your own negative stereotypes so why bother be up in arms when whites say anything about you…anyhting?

Marcus X, I am singling you out because of your name. I am assuming that you have been some how inspired by brother Malcolm. If so then I will let you know that Malcolm X tolerated no disrespect towards black women. He claimed that black women were always the most disrespect and unprotected. In order for a black man to be a man, he must protect his women like every other race of men. When you do not protect your women and treat them with respect, expect no one else to and expect not to be looked at as a real man.

Grace, girl!! I believe you 100%. That was why I stopped going to black minstrel…oops I meant black comendy shows. White audiences laughing at stereotypcial caricatures of blacks is an age old form of entertainment. It is also degrading and embarassing. Many comedians are decent but there are too many in the mix who just take things way to far. Black women are easy scapegoats for laughs. If you people on this thread only knew how damaging this was then you would not be laughing. However you are short sighted and ignorant. I am sorry that you had to experience that Grace. Please do not subject yourself to that again!! Empower yourself.

I can be very light hearted but I do not play with things like this because they just are not funny regardless of the time.

Chris Rock, you are the epitome of a COON!!