Rock’s caustic wit still burns, but not as much as it used to
GRAND PRAIRIE -- Like tennis champ Rafael Nadal delivering a blistering backhand or chef Eric Ripert proffering a decadent meal, Chris Rock performing restless, raunchy comedy is generally accepted as the epitome of effortless excellence.
Rock's Thursday night performance at Nokia Theatre was something of a master class in cutting up, even if the professor didn't show quite the edge that he did a decade ago. He still slings one-liners as merciless as concertina wire, but he seems to have forgone aiming at the jugular for simply making the masses laugh. His jab at Dallas? 'You've got more strip clubs than Starbucks here.' Ho hum. Read more