♪♪♪ >> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY,
WE'RE BACK HERE WITH CHRIS ROCK.
THE ORIGINAL WAS THE TAMBORINE SPECIAL IN 2018 AND NOW IT'S A
REMIX.
WHAT'S A REMIX OF A COMEDY SPECIAL?
>> A REMIX OF A COMEDY SPECIAL, IN THIS CASE, THERE'S 33 NEW
MINUTES THAT WERE NOT IN THE ORIGINAL SPECIAL, AND SOMEBODY
ORDERS CHANGE, AND I USE DIFFERENT TAKES FROM DIFFERENT
SHOWS.
SO IT'S KIND OF DIFFERENT.
IT'S KIND OF -- YOU KNOW, WHEN I WAS INITIALLY BROUGHT THE IDEA
TO NETFLIX, THEY WERE, LIKE, COME ON, DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT.
WHEN I SHOWED IT TO THEM, THEY WERE, LIKE, THIS IS A NEW
SPECIAL.
SO, YOU KNOW, I CAN'T DO COMEDY WITH NO AUDIENCE DURING THE
PANDEMIC, THAT'S PRETTY HARD.
>> Stephen: YEAH, IT'S KIND OF HARD.
WHO WOULD DO THAT?
THAT WOULD BE A DUMB THING TO TRY TO DO, GO DO COMEDY WITHOUT
AN AUDIENCE.
ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD ATTEMPT THAT.
WHAT'S THE FIRST THING YOU WANT TO DO WHEN YOU SEE THAT
AUDIENCE?
WHAT'S THE FIRST THING DO YOU WANT TO DO?
DO YOU WANT TO DO JOKES FOR THEM OR JUST GET NAKED AND JUMP ON
THEM. I JUST WANT TO RUB UP AGAINST PEOPLE.
I MISS HUMAN BEINGS.
>> I MISS THEM, TOO.
I'M TRYING TO GET ME A BUBBLE.
YOU'VE GOT TO GET A BUBBLE.
>> Stephen: LIKE A HAMSTER LOBLE GOING DOWN THE STREET.
>> THE PODS.
>> Stephen: LIKE YOU'RE SHARING YOUR VIRAL BIOME WITH.
ARE YOU ALL ALONE, CHRIS ROCK.
>> YEAH, MY KIDS LEFT, SO I'M KIND OF ALONE RIGHT NOW.
>> Stephen: WITHOUT THE AUDIENCE.
I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN VERY OPEN ABOUT GOING TO THERAPY AND HOW
IMPORTANT THAT IS TO YOU.
FOR ME THE AUDIENCE IS ACTUALLY THE WAY I DEAL WITH MY ANXIETY,
THAT CONNECTION, HEARING THE LAUGHTER OF THE AUDIENCE KIND OF
CALLS ME DOWN.
I GO, OKAY, THIS THING I THOUGHT MAKES SENSE TO YOU, AND, SO, I
FEEL LESS ALONE, AND NOT HAVING THEM, ALL THAT ANXIETY IS STILL
INTERNALIZED.
I'M HAVING TO IMAGINE IT BEING RELEASED TO AN AUDIENCE.
WHAT DOES IT DO TO YOUR MENTAL STATE TO NOT HAVE AN AUDIENCE,
CHRIS ROCK?
>> I USED TO ABUSE AN AUDIENCE IN THE SENSE I WOULD DO
SOMETHING IN MY NORMAL LIFE AND I WOULD GO, AH, MAN, YOU KNOW
WHAT, CHRIS?
YOU DON'T LISTEN TO PEOPLE, YOU TALK OVER PEOPLE, YOU'RE RUDE,
YOU NEED TO APOLOGIZE, YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOUR WAYS.
AND THEN I WOULD GO UP IN FRONT OF AN AUDIENCE AND THEY'D GIVE
ME A STANDING OVATION AND I GO, I'M NOT CHANGING NOTHING!
I'M OBVIOUSLY RIGHT!
THESE PEOPLE ARE STANDING!
SO QUARANTINE HAS HUMBLED ME, STEPHEN.
>> Stephen: UH-HUH.
PIF A RUMOR I WANT -- I HAVE A RUMOR I WANT TO RUN BY YOU.
>> YEAH.
>> Stephen: THERE'S A RUMOR, IS IT TRUE YOU WERE IN
CONTENTION TO PLAY GEORGE COSTANZA ON "SEINFELD"?
>> I JUST HEARD THAT ONE.
I MEAN, THERE WAS A NOT OF NBC TALK.
THERE WAS TALK ABOUT "SEINFELD," THERE WAS TALK ABOUT ME BEING
ONE OF THE "FRIENDS" AT THAT POINT.
>> Stephen: REALLY?
YES, YES, I WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BLACK FRIEND.
THAT'S BASICALLY WHO I AM TO AMERICA ANYWAY AT THIS POINT.
BUT LET'S JUST SAY THE GOOD PEOPLE AT "SEINFELD," THEY MADE
THE RIGHT CHOICE.
HE'S GOOD.
HE'S AMAZING.
>> Stephen: WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER, WERE THERE ANY PILOTS
OR THINGS THAT YOU WERE A PART OF THAT DIDN'T GO?
LIKE, THIS IS MY BREAK, THE THING I'M GOING TO DO.
FOR ME IT'S THE DANA CARVEY SHOW IN A WAY AND I THOUGHT IT WOULD
PUT ME ON THE MAP AND JUST DISSOLVED IN SEVEN SHOWS.
WAS THERE A THING YOU THOUGHT I'M GOING TO RIDE THIS OUT, THIS
IS MY PAYCHECK, THIS IS MY PAYDAY?
>> YEAH, I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE COCKROACH ON THE COSBY SHOW,
THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN, WHERE I WAS THEO'S BEST FRIEND.
THANK GOD THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN.
THINK ABOUT THE WORLD RIGHT NOW, BILL COSBY IS IN JAIL AND SNOOP
DOGG IS THE NUMBER ONE PITCH MAN IN AMERICA.
>> Stephen: HE HASN'T DONE THE PUDDING YET, I'M WAITING FOR THE
PUDDING POPS.
>> OH,IAN, I WOULD BUY ANYTHING SNOOP DOGG SELLS.
I JUST BOUGHT A SNOOP DOGG QUILT!
I GOT SOME GANGSTA SLEEP!
IF YOU AIN'T GOT A SNOOP DOGG QUILT, YOU ARE SLEEPING LIKE A
BITCH!
>> Stephen: I'LL TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT.
>> GET ONE OF THEM SNOOP DOGG QUILTS, I'M TELLING YOU.
>> Stephen: I HOPE I CAN SEE YOU IN PERSON.
I HOPE YOU CAN WALK ON■ AND HEAR THE CHEER OF THE AUDIENCE AT
SOME TIME IN THE FUTURE.
YOU KNOW THE ED SULLIVAN THEATER.
YOU KNOW HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS DOWN THERE.
>> I LOVE THE ED SULLIVAN THEATER.
>> Stephen: YOU WERE HERE FOR THE LAST NIGHT OF DAVE SHOW.
>> I WAS.
I WAS VERY FORTUNATE.
>> Stephen: WHAT WAS IT LIKE BACKSTAGE?
>> IT WAS TYPICAL DAVE NOT SAYING A FREAKIN' WORD.
>> Stephen: WHAT ABOUT BACK TO THE OTHER PEOPLE?
>> ME, "SEINFELD," JULIA LOUISE, JIM CAREY AND I THINK STEVE
MARTIN, I BELIEVE, WE WERE HAPPY.
LETTERMAN IS HIS LOVELY MISERABLE SELF.
>> Stephen: I JUST HAD A MEMORY OF YOU.
I REALIZED THE FIRST TIME I MET YOU WAS I THINK WHEN THE COLBERT
REPORT WAS BEING ANNOUNCED, IT WAS AT SOME VIACOM THING UP
FRONT, AND THEY ANNOUNCED IT AND I'M ACTUALLY THERE.
I WAS IN AN OUTFIT I HAD TO WEAR FOR A BIT I WAS DOING FOR THE
"DAILY SHOW," THE LAST NIGHT BEFORE I MOVED OVER AND I THINK
IT WAS YOU AND ACCIDENT THINKS LEERY AND JEANINE GARAFALO,
WE'RE TALKING 15, 16 YEARS AGO, AND ME, AND THEY HAD US GET IN
FRONT OF A STEP AND REPEAT FOR A PHOTO.
>> I HAD SEEN YOU ONLY ONE OTHER TIME.
IT WAS A WEIRD MOVIE, NOT A GREAT MOVIE, BUT YOU WERE SO
FUNNY, IN THAT MIKE MYERS MOVIE, "THE LOVE GURU."
>> Stephen: I'LL NOT HAVE YOU SIT HERE AND CAST ASPERSIONS
ON -- THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE HAS NAMED THAT ONE OF
THE 100 MOST MADE MOVIES -- >> I THOUGHT YOU WERE HYSTERICAL
IN "LOVE GURU."
I SAID, WHO IS THIS GUY?
HE'S HYSTERICAL!
>> Stephen: IT WAS JUST ME AND JIM GAFFIGAN HANGING OUT DWAYNE.
IT WAS ALL IN THE WRITER'S STRIKE AND THERE COULDN'T BE A
SCRIPT SO THEY SAID JUST IMPROVISE.
>> I THINK YOU SHOULD QUIT THIS SHOW AND JUST DO THAT GUY.
THAT GUY IS AMAZING.
>> Stephen: I'M IN!
WHEN WE COME BACK, CAN I GUEST HOST?
I DON'T WANT TO GUEST HOST, JUST >> Stephen: NO, TOO LATE, I
ACCEPT!
I ACCEPT!
I ACCEPT, AND I PROMISE, I WILL COME BACK!
>> I WANT TO BE ED MCMAHON.
I JUST WANT TO SIT THERE AND -- CAN I JUST SIT THERE AND SMOKE
WEED AND -- >> Stephen: JUST LIKE ED
MCMAHON.
>> JUST LIKE ED MCMAHON!
>> Stephen: IF BY WEED, YOU MEAN A DUBUQUE HEM.
HE USED TO DO ALPO BEEF CHUNK SKINNERS ON "THE TONIGHT SHOW"
AND THEN CUT TO ED AND ED WOULD HAVE A DOG AND BOWL OF ALPO AND
MAKE ED SELL ALPO WHILE JOHNNY SAT THERE AND TALKED TO BARBIE
BENTON.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
CHRIS ROCK, "CHRIS ROCK:
TOTAL BLACKOUT: THE TAMBORINE EXTENDED CUT" IS AVAILABLE
TOMORROW ON NETFLIX.
CHRIS ROCK, EVERYBODY!
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