CD Review

Artist: Chris Rock

Title: Cheese & Crackers – The Greatest Bits

Record Label: Geffen Records

Released: December 11^th 2007

Website: www.chrisrock.com  

4 Stars 

Reviewed By: Kindah Mardam Bey 

One of those guilty pleasures is listening to the comedy musings of Chris Rock. You can only work towards educated evolution so long before you need a little Rock. Every time I see a Chris Rock special on TV I have to watch it, as you are guaranteed a little politically charged satire, racial irony, ‘f’ing and ‘jeffing,’ and humour so crass I couldn’t repeat a single joke in this review. Yep, a guilty pleasure you just love to indulge in, and now you can enjoy ‘all the Greatest Bits’ in this newest CD collection from Rock called Cheese & Crackers – The Greatest Bits released on December 11^th.  

Cheese & Crackers is a scathing compilation of all Rock’s best comedy bits that have you writhing around with laughter with classics like ‘The Church Of ATM,’ ‘Gun Control,’ ‘Tossed Salad Man,’ ‘The Government Hates Rap,’ ‘Affirmative Action,’ ‘Platonic Friends,’ and ‘Women Lie.` 

Chris Rock is insightful, honest, and a brilliant commentator on people, society and culture. He’s a great communicator infused with a multitude of humour and shock tactics. He takes a microscope to society and really exposes how stupid we all really are about everything at times. Really, Rock is giving a huge roasting about society and we are all laughing along.  

For some, Chris Rock’s humorous comedy skits can be too offensive, after all, his humour isn’t of the ‘Uncle Milty’ variety, but I do believe that tough times call for tough measures. Meet the issues eye to eye, as crass as they actually are (those issues we are all trying to cover up and sweep under the rug most of the time) and he even brings some solutions to the table that draw on clear and perceptive logic. One example is a skit where Rock says he kicked a woman out of a night club on a weeknight who had two kids at home ‘go home, go home and look after your babies so that they don’t rob me in ten years!’ or along the same lines he says you can tell a kid will grow up to be criminals when they call their Grandma ‘Mama’ and their Mama’s ‘Pam.’ Harsh but true. 

I can’t imagine why this was released in time for Christmas as it doesn’t seem like the ideal stocking stuffer; however, Chris Rock is one of the best comedians today and well worth investing in. The Greatest Bits is a great way to have his famous skits together, like on his TV specials, but we are looking forward to Rock’s new scathing material that will have us all in hysterics.  

Tossed Salad Man

OJ
Blacks

Olympics

Gun Control

The Big Piece Of Chicken

Defending Rap

The Government Hates Rap

Affirmative Action

The Church Of ATM

AIDS Test

Generic Food

Fat Black Women

Domestic Abuse

Platonic Friends

Women Lie

Never Ask

Lending Money

Intercourse