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	Comedy rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Comedy rock is a term used to describe rock music that mixes stereotypes of rock and roll lifestyle and general comedy.
		Some comedy rock groups, such as Frank Zappa and Tenacious D, often poke fun at the norms of different rock genres through their lyrics, actions, or imitations of the other genres.
		Most comedy rockers, however, mainly just create rock and roll with amusing, witty, or over the top lyrics about topics usually not covered in other genres.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comedy_rock (186 words)

	Chris Rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rock was fired from SNL in the spring of 1993, as part of a regular cast turnover.
		Some were worried that Rock's outspoken and often crude humor would tarnish the staid image of the awards, but his comedy ruffled few feathers aside from those of Sean Penn.
		Rock jokingly asked "Who is this guy?" in reference to actor Jude Law seemingly appearing in every movie Rock had seen that year and implied Law was a low-rent Tom Cruise.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chris_Rock (831 words)

	Comedy
		Comedy is the use of humor in the form of theater, where it simply referred to a play with a happy ending, in contrast to a tragedy.
		The comedy of manners satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters, such as the miles gloriosus in ancient times, the fop and the rake during the Restoration, or an old person pretending to be young.
		Comedy Rock is a genre that mixes stereotypes of rock and roll lifestyle and general comedy with rock and roll music.
	www.shortopedia.com /C/O/Comedy (1390 words)

	Chris Rock - Biography - Moviefone
		Rock discovered comedy early in life, and was performing in the New York stand-up comedy circuit by his late teens.
		Rock's film career would continue to grow throughout the late nineties, and the young comic won particular notice for his role as a hot-headed law enforcement agent in 1998's Lethal Weapon 4 opposite Danny Glover and Mel Gibson, and later for Kevin Smith's Dogma(1999), in which he played a rather bitter apostle of Jesus.
		Rock directed and starred in 2003's Head of State as an unlikely presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, and is slated to star opposite Ben Stiller in Eric Darnell's Madagascar (2005).
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/chris-rock/60918/biography (640 words)

	Led Zeppelin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While the band is perhaps best known as pioneers of hard rock and heavy metal, Zeppelin also included disparate elements from an eclectic spectrum in their music, including blues, rockabilly, soul, funk, Celtic, Indian, Arabic, folk, country, and even Latin.
		Its blend of blues and rock influences with distorted amplification made it one of the pivotal records in the evolution of heavy metal music.
		The band also loved American rock and roll: the exuberant styles of Fats Domino and Little Richard were inspirations, and Led Zeppelin would perform rockabilly songs originally made famous by Elvis Presley and Eddie Cochran.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Led_Zeppelin (5072 words)

	The William F-ing Buckley of stand-up. By John Swansburg
		Rock may speak the irreverent language of blue comedy, but more often than not, his ideas are red-state red.
		Rock has joked that joining a political party is like joining a gang; of his own political beliefs, he says on crime he's conservative, on prostitution he's liberal.
		Rock is dangerous in the way Lenny Bruce was dangerous in that he tells the truth.
	www.slate.com /id/2113952 (1503 words)

	MID FRAME
		Rock began performing his stand up comedy at a Manhatten night club when he was a teenager.
		Some might ask, "then why is Rock so respected among people, and why is he considered the funniest man in America." Racial comedy not only demonstrates the experience felt by some in the audience but the possible reasons as why racial stand- up is important to America and to the idea of community.
		Rock could be creating a stereotype that all women just talk and want men to listen and don't care what men have to say in return.
	www.colostate.edu /Depts/Speech/rccs/theory74.htm (1012 words)

	CollegeHumor Article: Comedy, Rock and Rebirth
		Showalter formed a comedy troupe in college which came to be known as “The State.” The State began to star on an improvised sketch show called “You Wrote It, You Watch It”, and was soon asked by MTV to write and star in a show named after their troupe.
		From the rise of the ashes of the death of stand-up in the 80s, it truly is a Comedy Renaissance, and it truly is one hell of a rebirth.
		It’s sketch comedy related, which is sort of a return for me. I do have this thing and I am working on it, but I’m not putting pressure on myself to do another movie just yet.
	collegehumor.com /articles/1690754 (2045 words)

	Ageing rock star comedy for Elton John \| Headlines \| News \| Gay.com UK
		After announcing he was past the stage of drink, drugs and the rock and roll lifestyle earlier this week, Sir Elton John has said he is looking at new projects that would break with his musical tradition.
		The comedy is set to be aired in the US first, on the country's ABC channel, but may quickly transfer to the UK.
		Speaking to film and TV industry bible Variety, John dismissed the claims that the main character would be based on him, suggesting instead it would be a hybrid of rockers from the past.
	uk.gay.com /headlines/7087 (241 words)

	Pulling Punch Lines - Chris Rock, comic genius, falls Down to Earth. By Matt Feeney
		Even aside from that infamous bit, Rock's candor repeatedly raises the question of how the identity of the person speaking affects the propriety of what is said, whether one person's home truths are another's racist insults.
		People as sharp as Rock, C.K., and the Weitz brothers must realize that their movie's message of soul-love is fatally undermined by their reliance on a body double.
		They could plug Rock into enough of the Lance/Wellington scenes to market the movie as a Chris Rock vehicle or, leaving Rock out of crucial scenes, allow it to be as funny as its premise allowed.
	www.slate.com /id/101346 (1118 words)

	Comedy Rock - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
		An electric guitar and a driving beat are the only constants in the world of rock, but these rules have been stretched over the years as the genre has mutated to encompass everything from the soft singer-songwriter musings of Jackson Browne to the frenzied, rap-rock fusion of Rage Against the Machine.
		Styles as disparate as progressive, surf, punk, rock en espanol, and heavy metal are all branches of the original family tree, while at the same time many R&B artists remain close to the original formula, creating rock and soul hybrids.
		Rock and pop are somewhat interchangeable terms, though pop (a.k.a.
	music.download.com /2001-8688_32-0.html (237 words)

	Official Ticketmaster site. Chris Rock tickets, dates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-12)
		Chris Rock is a stand-up comedian who first rose to national stardom when he appeared on Saturday Night Live in the late '80s and early '90s.
		The early '90s were Rock's popular heyday, when he frequently appeared in films; he released his first comedy record, Born Suspect, in 1991.
		Rock began concentrating on his stand-up work again, and by the release of his second album, Roll With the New, in 1997, he had become one of the most popular and best-reviewed comedians in America.
	www.ticketmaster.com /artist/702631?brand=msn (385 words)

	Amazon.com: Chris Rock - Never Scared: DVD: Chris Rock,Doug E. Fresh,Joel Gallen,Keith Truesdell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-12)
		Chris Rock: Never Scared is the hot comic's fourth HBO special and proves as disciplined and trenchant as his previous cable concerts.
		Announcing he's a recent father, Rock proclaims his biggest job is keeping his daughter "off the pole," i.e., steering her away from the life of a stripper.
		Rock's comedy focuses on relationships, politics, government, race relations, and now parenthood (since Rock is now a parent).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00026L9BQ?v=glance (2088 words)

	Bio for Chris Rock on MSN Movies
		Rock discovered comedy early in life, and was performing in the New York standup comedy circuit by his late teens.
		Rock's film career would continue to grow throughout the late '90s, and the young comic won particular notice for his role as a hot-headed law enforcement agent in 1998's Lethal Weapon 4 opposite Danny Glover and Mel Gibson, and later for Kevin Smith's Dogma(1999), in which he played a rather bitter apostle of Jesus.
		Though Dogma received mixed reviews, 1999 was no lukewarm year for Rock -- HBO came through once again, and Chris hit it big with Bigger & Blacker, his second televised comedy special, which took on topics ranging from gun-control to Bill Clinton and proper parenting techniques.
	entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?mp=b&c=370132 (634 words)

	Chris Rock \| Matt Drudge \| 77th Annual Academy Awards : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
		But the Academy picked Rock for a reason: In light of the award-show ratings slides of recent years, he'll attract younger viewers who think the Oscars is something their parents watch when they want to see Billy Crystal think of a clever rhyme for ''Thalberg.''
		In a bit about the freedoms in America, Rock says ''it's beautiful abortion is legal,'' which Drudge twisted to ''abortion, it's beautiful.'' Then Drudge disparagingly cited Rock's reference to ''weird white guys getting overly patriotic with their [f---ing] flag hats on,'' and snorted that Rock must find the flag waving on Fox News ''weird'' too.
		Rock's routine is actually about how patriotism after Sept. 11 slowly devolved from a pure, refreshing love of country into ''hatriotism,'' where some people used jingoism as a pretext to say they hated all foreigners.
	www.ew.com /ew/article/commentary/0,6115,1029468_1_0_,00.html (1041 words)

	The Critics On Chris Rock's Big Ass Tour
		"As one of the hottest stars in entertainment, Rock could easily be relaxing, but he and his material appear just as sharp as they do in the recent Emmy Award-winning HBO special 'Bring the Pain.' Rock's edge is his clarity.
		Intelligent, insightful and filthier than a coal miner, he is a master at penetrating racial and economic hypocrisy....
		Rock half preaches, half screams at his audience, like an angry father trying to talk sense into a hard-headed child....
	www.exodusnews.com /entertainment/Entertain061.htm (293 words)

	Zap2it - TV news - Rock Comedy Rolls to UPN
		The series is described as a coming-of-age comedy about the eldest of three African-American children raised by a strict family and attending a mostly white Brooklyn school in the 1980s.
		Rock recently completed an exhaustively hyped appearance as host of ABC's Oscar telecast.
		Rock is also a three-time Emmy winner, picking up trophies for his HBO special "Bring the Pain" as well as his regular HBO show.
	tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271\|94102\|1\|,00.html (216 words)

	Solid No. 1 For Rock , Chris Rock Writes, Directs And Stars In His New Movie 'Head Of State' - CBS News
		Rock plays Mays Gilliam, a neighborhood alderman in Washington D.C. who is about to be fired from his job.
		Rock performed in Manhattan comedy clubs as a teenager and was mentored by comics Sam Kiniso and Eddie Murphy
		Actor Chris Rock's latest comedy 'Head of State' shot to the top at the box office, Rock not only starred in it but also wrote, directed, and produced the film as well, Hannah Storm reports.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/03/31/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main547036.shtml (796 words)

	Pdhyman.com
		Among other subjects, we will discuss whether comedy is the new rock and roll (or whether, as others seem to suggest, it's this year's brown).
		If comedy is the new rock and roll comedy will be dead about 23 years after it is bornm but comedy is not dead and comedy was born more than 23 years ago.
		If comedy was rock and roll, than it would already have mined itself completely and be nothing but new ways to arrange old things, a set of cliche attitudes and poses and phrases and a bunch of dead-brain marketers trying to beat it up into a frise of hormone-stimulants.
	www.pdhyman.com /blog/2006/01/comedy_as_the_new_rock_and_rol.php (526 words)

	Amazon.com: Chris Rock - Bigger and Blacker: DVD: Chris Howland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-12)
		Despite his manic and profane delivery, Rock's comedy is often rooted in traditional subjects for comedians: family relationships, misunderstandings between men and women, and observations on how childhood has changed.
		His defense of President Clinton against his accusers is a good example of how Rock's material is almost always bound to offend someone: he slices through the self-righteous rhetoric of the impeachment spectacle, but even the behavior he defends comes in for ridicule with jokes that are extremely funny as well as extremely coarse.
		Rock is in his finest hour here, spewing out admonitions on parenting, relationships, childhood, and even the Presidency, while making me laugh until I choked.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000399WN?v=glance (1450 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - Rock Profile
		Sometimes cruel and unfair but undeniably funny, Rock Profile took a machete to the egos, pomposity, eccentricity and grumpiness of mega-rich stars.
		Theakston acquitted himself well as the hapless interviewer facing the outrageous behaviour of his interviewees, and Lucas and Walliams - though not in the same league as Alistair McGowan as impressionists - nevertheless turned in some credible impersonations.
		The information in the bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy is complied from 'The Radio Times Guide to Television Comedy' by Mark Lewisohn, published by BBC Books.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/r/rockprofile_66602910.shtml (286 words)

	'Earth' Needs Resuscitation / Chris Rock comedy never comes to life
		Rock, his darting eyes at cross-purposes with his big, innocent smile, is best when mischievous and caustic.
		The joke is the audience sees Rock as fl but the other characters continue to see Wellington as a white geezer.
		The tables are turned when Lance is called back to that great nightclub in the sky for a second time and is reincarnated again, this time as a fl chauffeur.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/02/16/DD175739.DTL&type=movies (516 words)

	Comedy & rock set to roll in Carpenter Center (08-19-93) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-12)
		Comedy and rock set to roll in Carpenter Center (08-19-93)
		Nealon, who cites Andy Kaufman, Albert Brooks and Steve Martin as his biggest influences, continues to perform stand-up comedy at clubs and concert halls around the country.
		Rock's renaissance man, Lenny Kravitz combines his creativity, his proficiency on many instruments and his skill in the recording studio to produce music that combines rock 'n' roll, r&b, folk and fusion.
	www.udel.edu /PR/UpDate/93/39/6.html (581 words)

	Listen to Free Online Comedy Radio Stations - Live365 Internet Radio
		Comedy radio offers listeners jokes and amusing, humorous routines sometimes through the use of satire or parody.
		Today much of the comedy performed needs a "mature" label applied.
		Film and TV music, stand-up comedy and everything in between.
	www.live365.com /cgi-bin/directory.cgi?genre=comedy (334 words)

	purevolume™ \| the comedy of error
		The Comedy of Error is a 3 piece rock band from Lutz, Florida.
		the comedy of error hasn't posted a blog yet.
		All songs, lyrics and pictures © 2005 the comedy of error.
	www.purevolume.com /thecomedyoferror (89 words)

	indieville: review: the billion - aisle 5
		While the initial impression is that this is primarily a comedy album, some strong song compositions lean you more towards the idea of it being more a pop record than anything else.
		Despite the fact that the comedy isn't always all that funny, though, the songs here are pretty enjoyable.
		Altogether, Aisle 9 is a fun, enjoyable romp through eight short songs of comedy rock.
	www.indieville.com /reviews/billion.htm (253 words)

	Classic Rock & Comedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-12)
		Join us at Jokes On Us Comedy Club Feb 23, 2006 312 Mian Street Laurel, MD For a night of Classic Rock and Comedy with musical guest..
		Raised on their parent's rock and roll, brothers Tony and Damian Grasso are the heart of Uncle Chunky.
		Ian Salmon from Comedy Central and HBO Ian is also a member of the 94.7 Classic Rock family and is an internationally known standup comedian and has appeared in such films as Minority Report and TV shows like HBO's The Wire.
	www.iansalmon.com /classicrockshow.htm (298 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Shaw comedy, '60s rock on Utah stages
		A rarely produced George Bernard Shaw comedy and a musical with 1960s rock songs are among stage productions opening this week.
		George Bernard Shaw's comedy, opening Wednesday and playing through Nov. 12 in Brigham Young University's Margetts Theatre, explores the relationships between men and women, the necessity for mutual respect and the need for intellectual and social stimulation.
		Greenwich was a major influence on '60s rock 'n' roll, and one of the most successful songwriters of the era, earning 25 gold and platinum records.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635154941,00.html (1057 words)

	The School of Rock (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-12)
		Plot Outline: A wannabe rock star in need of cash poses as a substitute teacher at a prep school, and tries to turn his class into a rock band.
		A quick glance at the story or trailer tells you that School of Rock is probably the cheesiest, gratuitous, airhead excuse for a movie in ages, but if you thought that was a good reason to avoid it you'd be wrong.
		Soon he has the kids not only studying the history of rock and roll, soundproofing the room and playing rock instruments, but actually competing in a major ‘Battle of the Bands' competition.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0332379 (448 words)

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