# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/41 "2012-08-12T15:56:33Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > It was meant to shock and offend you, not her. [Fanning myself to stay composed] And I _am_ shocked - I do declare! [/Fanning myself to stay composed] That’s fine; but it comes off like a dick move… ---
**Author:** ![oreally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ab992/32.png) [@oreally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oreally)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/42 "2012-08-12T17:09:50Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Chris Rock is a racist asshole. ?? He’s black so that’s impossible. Blacks can’t be racist, only evil whitey. duh. Where have you been for the last 20-30+ years? Don’t be oppressin! ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/43 "2012-08-12T17:14:56Z")
Rock was making a joke about himself, not about Julie Delpy. Why would Delpy be offended? Why would anyone in this position be offended? The idea that a comedian making a joke like this is a “crass move” is astonishing. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/44 "2012-08-12T17:59:15Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Rock was making a joke about himself, not about Julie Delpy. Why would Delpy be offended? Why would anyone in this position be offended? The idea that a comedian making a joke like this is a “crass move” is astonishing. Watching Stewart and Denis Leary or Rock slam each others as drunks or pedophiles - or slamming their comedy-insider friends like Garofalo - that is unsurprising. Absent a bit more context, it seemed dickish to me…I was going for the Delpy sympathy vote, but yes, she’s a big girl… ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/45 "2012-08-15T13:58:48Z")
It was a joke about black stereotypes. It didn’t go over quite as well as Rock expected, so he had to point out that “big” meant “nice.” And then he had to add that that was just what let him first know of her, and then go back and tell the real story. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/46 "2012-08-15T16:07:45Z")
A tangent, I think Chris Rock is hilarious in [“How Not to Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65zXlytv01c) (NSFW language.) Bonus appearance by Darnell from My Name is Earl. And as for the OP, it sounds like the two were close, or at least Rock thought they were. Yes it’s crude but who cares about PC? ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/47 "2012-08-15T17:06:38Z")
I’d venture to guess that as a guy who made a movie with her, he’s a much better judge of what she would and would not find offensive than the average member of the general public who knows next to nothing about her. And based on the last few minutes of _Before Sunrise_, she does have a nice ass. > [@ministryman](#): > > Correction: At least from [this photo](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2929112064/nm0000365), I can. Hmmmmmm…NIIIIICE Dress…I gotta go now… But it was nice of him to put on his best sneakers for that photo op. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/48 "2012-08-15T18:16:28Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > A tangent, I think Chris Rock is hilarious in [“How Not to Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65zXlytv01c) (NSFW language.) Bonus appearance by Darnell from My Name is Earl. > > And as for the OP, it sounds like the two were close, or at least Rock thought they were. Yes it’s crude but who cares about PC? Holy smacks! I’ve watched that a million times and never noticed that was Darnell. Awesome. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/49 "2012-08-15T18:36:02Z")
> [@j666](#): > > He implies white women are more valuable than black women. > > He implies white women in general aren’t sexy because their asses aren’t big enough. > > He implies how valuable a women is, depends primarily on how sexy she is. These three statements are internally contradictory. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/50 "2012-08-15T19:12:22Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I don’t know. A couple of the pictures, [like this one](http://www.superiorpics.com/julie_delpy/pictures/5963_delpy_88627474_picture.html), \*hint \*at Callipygian glory, WTF, there’s a photog right THERE, pointing his camera right at her backside, and it doesn’t wind up on the internet? That’s just wrong… ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094/51 "2012-08-16T01:57:35Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Well, pics or it didn’t happen in reference to your caboose. I like 'em bay-window sized, myself. Are you white, too? Please say yes. You are assuming a more fundamental requirement. > [@bup](#): > > These three statements are internally contradictory. Yes, but no, not really. I think the attitude he implied was contradictory. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-8-8-chris-rock-interview-am-i-too-pc-here/631094.md?page=2)