This is taken from an interesting time capsule of a stand up comedy film called "Comedy's Dirtiest Dozen" that I stumbled across recently. Featuring some names you will no doubt recognize (Tim Allen, Bill Hicks, Howard Stern's Jackie Martling) and some you most definitely will not unless you're blood relative to them (Andrew Dice Clay knock off Monty Hoffman anyone?) this is the type of movie your older cousin who was into Slayer would have on vhs that your mother wouldn't let you watch. Back in the day when a comedian talking about STDs was still considered "edgy", the crowd sounds like they just came from a Married With Children taping and Tim Allen was actually kind of funny.
While all of the big names involved here have aged considerably, none more noticeably than Chris Rock. Even though you get a little glimpse into the type of comedian he would one day become, the 21 year old Rock (wearing a pair of Jordan 3's) is much less polished and maybe a little angrier (as you can tell from his opening line "So I hate life...")without doing his trademark scrunched up face scream that he does now. He's also not all that funny. He goes from a not particularly hilarious routine about being racially profiled since he was born, to a riff on jerking off to Aunt Jemima and then (real 80's flashback) talks about Jesse Jackson running for President. Nothing here is really groundbreaking and if you were one of the howling people in the audience that night you probably didn't think this guy would become the gigantic star he is now but there's definitely traces of what was to come, especially in his last line:
"I was in South Africa the other day...or was it Boston?"
drops the microphone and walks off.
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