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" New York is home. It's so unique that there is no other place like it. "
Tony Rock
New
New York
Unique
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" If my sisters like something I do, then I'm very happy with it. I only listen to my sisters! "
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Happy
Like
" 'All Def' is unlike any other comedy show or set because 'All Def' goes back to the essence of how urban comedy started. We give it a 'stoop appeal.' A stoop appeal is important for us because it's where pretty much all black comics started doing their standup: cracking jokes on the stoop, in the hood. "
Tony Rock
Doing
Black
Comedy
" When I was growing up, I was really into comedy. I listened to a lot of comedy albums. I loved Richard Pryor, but the comic that had the most impact on me was always my brother Chris, who was in the next room. It was tangible. If Chris could make it, I could try. "
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Brother
Impact
Loved
" I can make anything in the room funny in a few seconds. "
Tony Rock
Funny
Anything
Room
" I talk to the audience like I talk to my friends on the stoop. "
Tony Rock
Talk
Friends
Audience
" Once school let out every year, my siblings and I would get packed into a station wagon to drive to South Carolina to see my grandparents for summer vacation. If school let out on Friday, we were probably in the station wagon no later than Sunday morning, and we would make stops along the way. "
Tony Rock
School
Morning
Drive
" I don't understand why black people feel this undying need to want to be down with white people all the time. "
Tony Rock
White
People
Need
" When you're doing standup, it's just you. It's your written jokes. You perform it however your personality is. "
Tony Rock
Doing
Jokes
Just
" I haven't been offstage for more than two days since I started doing comedy. "
Tony Rock
Doing
More
Started
" Everybody cheats on the Kardashians. "
Tony Rock
Everybody
Cheats
" What amazes me is that the whole world is fascinated by Kim Kardashian. What's her talent? "
Tony Rock
Amazes
Talent
Me
" I've always been into stand-up, and I always wanted to be a comic because it was like the dream job as a kid, and my brother, being the patriarch, he paved the way. "
Tony Rock
Brother
Way
Kid
" My older brothers have their own children, and they have to go to soccer practice and football practice on the weekends. They're doing their thing and on the weekends, and I'm on the road. The busier we get, the less time we get to see each other. That's why, when we see each other, it's really, really kind of special. "
Tony Rock
Road
Practice
Football
" Nobody needs a chitlin. "
Tony Rock
Nobody
Needs
" Ask Frank Stallone how far your name gets you. "
Tony Rock
Name
Your
Ask
" My father drove a truck, and my mother was a school teacher. They wanted their children to go the traditional route: get good grades, go to college, get a job. "
Tony Rock
Children
Teacher
Mother
" I talk about everything - politics, the economy; the news will give you more material than you can ever use. But relationships? That's the ongoing battle. You talk about men and women, and across-the-board everyone can relate to that. "
Tony Rock
Women
News
Men
" Never steal jokes. "
Tony Rock
Jokes
Never
Steal
" Mexicans work so hard. Jamaicans are like, 'Hey mon. Take it easy. You work too 'ard.' Sneak into the country Sunday night, working Monday morning. "
Tony Rock
Sunday
Morning
Monday
" It's too expensive to eat healthy. You ever go to Whole Foods? A carrot is, like, seven dollars. McDonald's got double cheeseburgers for a dollar. "
Tony Rock
Go
You
Eat
" I went to a wedding in St. Maarten, and we took a boat ride over to Anguilla for a day. We went to a beach that had the whitest sand I had ever seen before in my life. I was in the water up to the middle of my chest and could still see my feet. It was the clearest water. "
Tony Rock
Ride
Life
Water
" I keep saying this - and I keep putting it off because I get busy - but I keep saying one year I'm gonna tape our Thanksgiving dinner or, like, our Christmas dinner and maybe put it on my website just for people to see how funny it really is, how much fun it really, really is. "
Tony Rock
Dinner
Thanksgiving
People
" Every time I go onstage, it's a little less 'Chris Rock's brother.' "
Tony Rock
Little
Rock
Time
" I'm a skinny kid from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. "
Tony Rock
Brooklyn
Kid
Skinny
" I have seven brothers and two sisters, so there was always a little friendly competition in the house. I don't think that's anything unusual with that many siblings. "
Tony Rock
Always
Two
Think
" I will never be the comic that apologizes for telling a joke. "
Tony Rock
Never
Joke
Comic
" Nothing's given in the Rock family. "
Tony Rock
Rock
Family
Given
" My favorite comics are the ones who say funny stuff but also give you the message. They give you the laughter, but there's also the, 'Mmm - I didn't take that into consideration.' "
Tony Rock
Say
Message
You
" I was on the school bus telling Richard Pryor jokes. I was sneaking, listening to Richard Pryor albums and would go to school the next day, tell all the jokes, and get in trouble because I was cursing. "
Tony Rock
School
Listening
Trouble
" It's part of the gift and the curse of coming behind my brother. I'm not afforded the luxury of just taking a set casual, taking the night off. Because if I bomb, it's, 'Oh, he's not funny - he's just doing it because of his brother.' "
Tony Rock
Brother
Luxury
Off