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" You got to be willing to be knocked out to win a fight. You got to be willing to get booed off the stage to get a standing ovation. "
Tony Rock
Standing
Fight
Got
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" Nobody needs a chitlin. "
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" Sometimes I might get in the door a little quicker than somebody else because of my last name. But if I'm not prepared, I'm not afforded the luxury of, 'Oh, he's a little green.' It's, 'He's not talented,' where the next guy can have a bad day. "
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Bad Day
Luxury
Name
" 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. "
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Sunday
Morning
Monday
" My pops, the whole time while I was growing up, was conscious of what we ate. He made sure we exercised and had time outside. He knew having a healthy lifestyle meant exercise. "
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Time
Up
Healthy
" If I modeled myself after anybody, it probably would have been Richard Pryor. "
Tony Rock
After
Would
Myself
" 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. "
Tony Rock
Brother
Impact
Loved
" Every day of my life is a dream goal. "
Tony Rock
My Life
Day
Dream
" 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
" I hate when rappers do interviews. They say stuff like, 'If I wasn't doing this, I'd be dead or in jail.' Like, damn, those are the only two options? What about managing Kinkos? "
Tony Rock
Jail
Hate
Doing
" Women do so much aesthetically to attract men that they sometimes overlook the simple things, like cooking. "
Tony Rock
Men
Sometimes
Women
" 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
" I never knew I was poor until I got older because we just had so much fun. I thought everyone had grilled cheese night and that everyone had Cup-O-Noodles for dinner on Fridays. "
Tony Rock
Thought
Night
Got
" My first stand-up experience, like most comics, was horrible. I got booed offstage. I thought I was funnier than I was. But the walk from the back of the room to the stage was the most excited I'd ever been about anything in my life other than kissing a girl. That's how I knew I had to get back onstage and do it again. "
Tony Rock
Experience
Walk
My Life
" Trouble was almost inevitable. I grew up with so many at-risk kids. Kids had things go wrong. "
Tony Rock
Things
Trouble
Wrong
" Like everybody, I started out doing 'bringer' shows - the kind where if you show up with a certain number of people, you get to perform. Sometimes I would actually pay strangers off the street to come in and see my set. "
Tony Rock
Strangers
You
Street
" I have seven brothers and sisters, and they could all be standup comics! "
Tony Rock
Brothers
Seven
Brothers And Sisters
" 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 was depressed for a long time. "
Tony Rock
Long Time
Long
Depressed
" My family is just naturally funny. "
Tony Rock
Naturally
Just
Funny
" 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
" If you're at the Comedy Store or the Laugh Factory or the Improv, even two minutes helps. You never know who might be in the audience. "
Tony Rock
Audience
Know
Laugh
" 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
" '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
" 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'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
" We weren't rich by any means, but we had each other, so we were rich in family. When you don't have a lot, it just fuels that creativity. So it manifested in us doing characters of people in the neighborhood or doing impersonations of Mom and Dad. The comedy bug, it takes over. "
Tony Rock
Creativity
Family
Mom
" I talk to the audience like I talk to my friends on the stoop. "
Tony Rock
Talk
Friends
Audience
" 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