# Daily Show, 8/8, Chris Rock Interview - am I too PC here? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 10, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094 "2012-08-10T15:52:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/1 "2012-08-10T15:52:45Z")
I watched Wednesday night’s Daily Show last night - Jon Stewart interviewed Chris Rock to publicize Rock’s new movie, 2 Days in New York - which was written, directed by and costars Julie Delpy, an outspoken, socially and politically active French actress. Stewart asked Rock how he got the part and Rock basically said “she just called me - and when a hot white French chick with a nice, big ass calls you about a part, you say yes.” It wasn’t quite worded that way, but they went back and forth a few times chuckling about it, so the basic intention was clear. I was just immediately struck by how Julie Delpy would’ve had to have looked at that really negatively…it is just so different from how she portrays herself…just seemed like a disrespectful choice on Rock’s part, but perhaps I am overthinking this - I mean, after all, she \*is \*a hot white French chick with a nice, big ass…:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/2 "2012-08-10T15:55:35Z")
I’m not too concerned about the question of whether Chris Rock wants Judy Delpy to respect him or not. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/3 "2012-08-10T15:58:52Z")
I’m having trouble locating pictures of her ass. Li’l help? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/4 "2012-08-10T15:59:07Z")
Chris Rock is a racist asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/5 "2012-08-10T16:06:00Z")
But white people _do_ be walking like this. And black people _do_ be walking like this. How can it be racist if it’s true? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/6 "2012-08-10T16:08:12Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > But white people _do_ be walking like this. And black people _do_ be walking like this. How can it be racist if it’s true? bwah? ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/7 "2012-08-10T16:09:25Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Chris Rock is a racist asshole. I don’t get that vibe from him. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/8 "2012-08-10T16:13:18Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > I watched Wednesday night’s Daily Show last night - Jon Stewart interviewed Chris Rock to publicize Rock’s new movie, 2 Days in New York - which was written, directed by and costars Julie Delpy, an outspoken, socially and politically active French actress. > > Stewart asked Rock how he got the part and Rock basically said “she just called me - and when a hot white French chick with a nice, big ass calls you about a part, you say yes.” It wasn’t quite worded that way, but they went back and forth a few times chuckling about it, so the basic intention was clear. > > I was just immediately struck by how Julie Delpy would’ve had to have looked at that really negatively…it is just so different from how she portrays herself…just seemed like a disrespectful choice on Rock’s part, but perhaps I am overthinking this - I mean, after all, she \*is \*a hot white French chick with a nice, big ass…:dubious: I’m thinking that she has seen Chris’ body of work, and knows what to expect. BTW, she is not THAT hot, and I didn’t see a big ass on her. Correction: At least from [this photo](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2929112064/nm0000365), I can. Hmmmmmm…NIIIIICE Dress…I gotta go now… ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/9 "2012-08-10T16:28:19Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I don’t get that vibe from him. I think he’s just a garden variety asshole. And he hasn’t been funny for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/10 "2012-08-10T16:34:22Z")
I got the impression that while spending time together shooting the film, Chris and Julie did a lot of joking about her “fat white ass” and she found it to be charming/endearing and she’s cool with it and that’s why he felt cool about mentioning it in an interview like that. I made up that whole story but it worked for me. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/11 "2012-08-10T17:07:06Z")
A lot of comedians try to push the boundaries on The Daily Show, just because they know they can. Sometimes it’s funny and sometimes they’re just amusing themselves. This time they were amusing themselves more. Not a big deal to me. I will defend Chris Rock as being funny, though. His breakthrough concert/album _Bigger and Blacker_ was exceptional. _Never Scared_ and _Kill the Messenger_ were almost as good. Those were miles above any of his contemporaries. Maybe Lewis Black on a peak day came close, but I saw his tour a couple of months ago and it was funny all the way through but not _White Album_ peak. I’d still put Rock as the top comedian of this generation. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/12 "2012-08-10T17:09:09Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I don’t get that vibe from him. Well for the first 1/2 of his career his entire act was telling us how badly african americans behave with the constantly repeated phrase… “Only a n\*\*\*\*r will do X!” then he creatively switched it up to tell us how terrible white people are with… “X is horrible - but it’s all right, 'cause it’s all WHITE!” Oddly enough his act never combined the two but always chose one side to blame for all the world’s problems. If you’re only seen him once or twice I can see how he’d come off as a racist prick. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/13 "2012-08-10T17:14:33Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I think he’s just a garden variety asshole. And he hasn’t been funny for a long time. I’m not a big fan of his work, but what has he done that is particularly assholic? > [@zoid](#): > > Well for the first 1/2 of his career his entire act was telling us how badly african americans behave with the constantly repeated phrase… > > “Only a n\*\*\*\*r will do X!” > > then he creatively switched it up to tell us how terrible white people are with… > > “X is horrible - but it’s all right, 'cause it’s all WHITE!” > > Oddly enough his act never combined the two but always chose one side to blame for all the world’s problems. If you’re only seen him once or twice I can see how he’d come off as a racist prick. The “nigger vs. black person” schtick constituted a single bit in an otherwise lengthy set. If you’re really shocked by a black comedian making jokes about race relations then I think you haven’t been paying much attention over the past 40 years. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/14 "2012-08-10T17:28:12Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I’m having trouble locating pictures of her ass. Li’l help? Here’s her, but they seemed determined not to show her bottom. It’s a conspiracy > **[Yahoo Image Search](https://images.search.yahoo.com/images)** You might have more luck here: [http://www.superiorpics.com/julie\_delpy/pictures1.html](http://www.superiorpics.com/julie_delpy/pictures1.html) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/15 "2012-08-10T17:45:55Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I’m having trouble locating pictures of her ass. Li’l help? How about [video](http://youtu.be/pMqePx7Kp3A#t=03m02s)? ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/16 "2012-08-10T17:47:56Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > I’m not a big fan of his work, but what has he done that is particularly assholic? > > The “nigger vs. black person” schtick constituted a single bit in an otherwise lengthy set. If you’re really shocked by a black comedian making jokes about race relations then I think you haven’t been paying much attention over the past 40 years. Not shocked at all. Never said I was. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/17 "2012-08-10T18:13:39Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I got the impression that while spending time together shooting the film, Chris and Julie did a lot of joking about her “fat white ass” and she found it to be charming/endearing and she’s cool with it and that’s why he felt cool about mentioning it in an interview like that. > > I made up that whole story but it worked for me. I was thinking something like this, or at least that they had become chummy enough that he thought Delpy would laugh about it, because otherwise it did seem sorta crass. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/18 "2012-08-10T18:15:15Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > You might have more luck here: > > [http://www.superiorpics.com/julie\_delpy/pictures1.html](http://www.superiorpics.com/julie_delpy/pictures1.html) Hmm. We are all working from the same definition of “ass,” right? That’s like 8 pages of head shots and front shots. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/19 "2012-08-10T18:18:04Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Chris Rock is a racist asshole. No he is not. He _clearly_ delineates between “black people” and “niggers”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/20 "2012-08-10T18:19:48Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Hmm. We are all working from the same definition of “ass,” right? That’s like 8 pages of head shots and front shots. The first link was head shots. This one at least as full-body shots. I haven’t looked through them all. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094.md?page=2)