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Everybody Hates Chris #042 "Everybody Hates Dirty Jokes" CLOSED CAPTIONED

CHRIS ROCK: Ever since I was a kid, I always loved comedy.

I loved cartoons.

I loved sitcoms.

Sunday's supposed to be my day of rest, you know.

But most of all, I loved stand-up comedians.

Michael Jackson kept his sunglasses on.

He had to-- Cyndi Lauper kept shining in his eyes.

All right, y'all, time to go to bed.

Ma, can I stay up and watch 'til the end?

It's almost over.

All right.

Drew and Tonya, go.

Good night.

And Prince didn't show up.

He doesn't like to go anywhere

where the cast outnumbers his bodyguard.

What I didn't know was that my parents loved comedians, too.

REDD FOXX : You knew it in your heart, you haven't washed your hair.

* Express yourself

FOXX: So one night, the time was right,

he asked her, he said, "Honey, would you marry me?"

She said "wooden eye?"

I can't say what he just,

but it was the first dirty joke I had ever heard.

"Geez, baby, what time do you have to be home?"

And it wasn't the last.

She said "Christmas..."

A lot of kids would get in trouble sneaking out of bed

trying to listen to dirty jokes.

I ended up getting a career.

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CHRIS ROCK: I risked a beating

trying to hear one side of that Redd Foxx album.

Now I was risking my life trying to hear the other side.

Now, I know it was wrong to sneak behind my parents back

and listen to dirty records,

but if listening to dirty records was wrong,

I don't wanna do right.

REDD FOXX: When I was a kid, during the depression...

I mean we were poor.

When Christmas time came, if I hadn't been a boy

I wouldn't have had nothing to play with.

I found out one thing in life,

if you want people to laugh, tell 'em a joke.

Now, if you want them to really laugh,

tell 'em a dirty joke.

Okay, and there was one black sheep,

and the chief said,

"Okay, you don't tell on me, I won't tell on you."

All right, stop it, man, come on, I can't take another one.

No, no, no, no, wait, I've got one more.

Hold on. No, no.

I can't take it.

Who is that?

Redd Foxx. From Sanford and Son?

He's a comedian?

Yeah, you big dummy!

Yeah, I didn't know it either.

My parents have like a bunch of his albums.

And they let you listen to that?

Not really.

Still won't!

JOEY: Hey, Buckwheat.

Alfalfa. What's so funny?

Uh, I was just telling a stupid joke.

Tell me.

Nah, you wouldn't really like it.

Yeah, you won't like me smashing your face in a locker.

Now, tell me the joke.

It's funny. Tell him.

Okay.

There's a missionary who went to an African village...

If you can make your worst enemy laugh with a joke,

that's a funny joke.

...and there was one black sheep.

And the chief said,

"Okay, you don't tell on me,

I won't tell on you."

: That's real funny, Flip.

Hey, guys,

For the first time, come here.

I realized a good joke can stop

a beat down.

Too bad Reginald Denny didn't know any jokes.

All right, so there's a missionary

who lived in an African village...

Momma, what you doing in here?

I thought you might need a hand with dinner.

Since my grandfather passed away

my grandmother had a lot of free time on her hands,

and she was giving it to my mother.

Baby, that's not the way to do that.

But I do it this way all the time.

Yeah, but the way you do it is wrong.

Go ahead sit down, I'll do it.

Go ahead, I'll do it.

The only thing my mother hated worse

than no help was help from my grandmother.

Okay.

Dinner is served.

Ooh, um...

I can't eat this.

My gout will flair up.

Oh, don't worry.

That's oven-fried chicken.

I used skim milk in your macaroni,

that's a baked potato and salad.

So, you go ahead, eat up, you'll be just fine.

Wow, Momma never did all that stuff.

Shh!

Where's Momma anyway?

Hey, baby,

you wanna sit down and have something to eat?

Mm, I'm fine.

Grandma made oven-fried chicken.

Oh, really?

That's nice.

Well, I'm gonna finish the laundry.

It's finished.

Then I'll go straighten up

the kids' room.

Oh, they're straightened.

Uh-oh.

Then I guess I'll go do my toes.

They're done.

ROCHELLE: When did you do my toes?

MAXINE: While you were asleep.

I didn't want to wake you.

That look means,

"If you do something else, you're finished."

Here comes your girlfriend, Drew.

Girlfriend?

I don't like her.

Well, she likes you.

And she's going around telling everybody that you kissed her.

Wait, Tonya...

Just about every girl in the neighborhood liked Drew,

and Chantal was just about the only girl Drew didn't like.

Hey, Drew.

What you doing? Uh, nothing.

I was just about to go back in the house.

Oh... you coming back out?

Ah, I don't think so.

Oh, you gonna be out tomorrow after school?

I don't know. I may have to stay in.

Oh.

Well, maybe I'll see you later.

Yeah, maybe.

While Drew was trying to make a clean break,

I was getting down and dirty with my new jokes.

I told the one about the guy who got bitten by the snake...

So the doctor said make two cuts

where your friend was bitten by the snake

and suck out the poison out.

So the guy gets back to his friend,

the friend said, "Well, what did the doctor say?"

"You're gonna die."

I told one about the two guys on the bridge...

And so then the white guy said, "Man, this water is cold."

And the black guy said, "Yeah, and it's deep, too."

And I told the one about how to become an honorary Eskimo.

So, he was bleeding, and his clothes were torn.

So he walks in and says,

"Now, where's the Eskimo woman I'm supposed to kill?"

: Aw...

Hey, little dude from across the street, man,

you're momma know you here telling jokes like that?

Nah. Because if she did,

she'd smack the smut out of me.

Hey, hold up.

Let me hold a dollar.

You want one? Yeah.

For years I had tried to be cool,

but I had never felt cooler than when I tried to be funny.

CHRIS ROCK: While I kept the guys rolling with laughter,

my mother kept my father from rolling into bed.

What are you doing up?

I can't sleep.

Translation: "He can't sleep."

I didn't do something, did I?

No, it's my mother.

She's driving me crazy.

Every time I want to do something,

either she's already done it

or she doesn't like the way I did it.

Baby, she's just trying to help.

If you call her making me want to knock her out "help,"

she's doing fine.

I mean,

she's got a house.

Why can't she go over there and clean up after Michael?

Because if she has to pick up another one of his socks

she's gonna strangle him with it. What?

We were talking earlier.

Rochelle, she's lonely.

She told you that?

No, but it's obvious she misses your father.

I think she's just trying to keep herself busy.

Well, I wish she would find something else to do.

Maybe she should go on a date.

A date?

My mother is almost 60.

How would she look out there trying to get a date?

Like Bea Arthur on The Golden Girls.

Better than she looks downstairs

trying to cook your dinner.

Back at school,I learned another valuable lesson.

You could be funny at the wrong time...

And then the guy said, "All right, fine.

"Just as long as you don't hit me

in the back of the head with that stick."

What's going on back there?

Nothing. Oh, really.

So the whole class is giggling up a storm over nothing at all?

Caruso...

It wasn't me.

He's the one shucking and jiving.

I guess he's never going to be in the mob.

So, Mr. Funny Man,

you're so funny, why don't you make me laugh?

I can't.

Obviously you can.

Everybody else is laughing.

You told them a joke, so you can tell me a joke?

I don't think so.

Oh, so now you're thinking?

Well, I tell you what.

You'll have plenty of time to think

when you're serving a day in detention.

Don't ask me what I'm thinking right now.

Since my grandmother was too old to go out looking for men,

my mother decided to bring the men to her.

Oh, hey, Mrs. Rochelle, what can I do for you?

Hey, Mr. Omar.

Do you remember my mother, Maxine?

Yes.

Husband died telling a knock-knock joke.

Tragic. Tragic.

I was wondering if you might know

of any available men around her age?

Uh-oh,

momma's got a brand new bag, huh?

Yeah, I think I might know a few people.

Come on in. Okay, thanks.

So, uh, how is Mr. Julius?

He's fine.

Oh.

Some guys want their sisters to hook 'em up.

Not Drew.

Chantal called you.

What?

How'd she get our number?

I gave it to her.

What'd you do that for?

Because she likes you.

So? I don't like her.

So?

What do you mean "so"?

I mean "so."

Just because you don't like her

doesn't mean she don't like you.

Drew hadn't learned that women spoke a different language...

Crazy.

Meanwhile, my mother was looking

for a man to get back her sanity.

I have a question for you.

Of course.

Does your mom have a cellar, a large freezer and a pension?

Have you ever dated a black woman before?

Oh, yeah.

There's nothing I love better than a bad mamajama.

I hope you're talking about the song.

Did Mr. Omar send you?

No, your window was open.

Can you hold this gun?

Michael, what are you doing here?

Stopping a home wrecker.

You trying to break me and Momma up.

It's time for her to come home.

I'm hungry.

Hey.

Hey, Mr. Omar.

Yeah, so how did the fellas work out?

They didn't.

Who's this?

I'm Lester.

You know, you're much younger than I thought you would be.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Slow down, lowdown.

You're not coming to meet me.

You're coming to meet my mother.

: Well, if she looks anything like you,

this could work out.

Calm down, Billy Dee, she don't want your Colt 45.

Well, if you talk

to her like you talking to me...

: it just might.

Where you been?

I'm sorry I'm late. I was in detention. Detention?

For what?

I was telling Redd Foxx jokes in class.

Redd Foxx?

As dirty as he is,

I know your mother didn't let you listen to that.

Nope. I snuck and listened to it while they were asleep.

Oh, you got a little sneak in you, huh?

Yeah, I guess.

You know, I used to write jokes for some comedians

back when.

You did? Mm-hmm.

I got a joke or two on most of these albums here.

Really?

Well, can I listen to them? Sure.

But some of this material is a little blue.

Blue?

Yeah, filthy.

So if you hear something you ain't supposed to hear,

turn it off.

Don't be so strict, old man.

I'm gonna make a slopper.

You want one?

Nah, I'm all right.

"Moms Mabley?

"Bill Cosby.

George CarlinClass Clown"

CARLIN: Yeah, there are 400,000 words in the English language,

and there are seven of them you can't say on television.

: They must really be bad...

"Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television"?

You know the seven, don't you,

that you can't say on television?

Seven? I could only think of three.

What? Whoo!

Ouch! Uh-huh!

Whoa! Hey, now!

Ho, ho, ho, ho!

My vocabulary just grew by four.

Dirty jokes were one thing.

Dirty words were a whole new ballgame.

Oh, my God.

Where'd you hear that?

George Carlin.

That's comedy?

I think it's funny.

Well, I hate cursing.

My father used to call my mother number four all the time.

Then she'd call him number five.

And they'd go back and forth like that.

Five, four, two, one.

Seven.

Then they'd end up on number three.

Greg was an early adapter of "too much information."

Well, I don't want to get in trouble,

so don't tell anybody.

It never occurred to me that Greg wasn't

the one I had to worry about.

Don't tell anybody.

Don't tell anybody.

I liked it better when you worked clean, man.

You know, I feel that the use of foul language degrades

not only the listener but the speaker as well.

Caruso is the only guy I know

who would beat things out of you he wouldn't say.

Just because my mother found a man

didn't mean my grandmother wanted one.

Rochelle, you know I hate surprises.

Momma, I think you might like this one.

Okay.

What?

Ta-dah!

Momma, this is Lester.

Lester, this is my mother Maxine.

It's a pleasure to meet you.

What is this?

Mom, it's just dinner.

I just thought you might like to have a meal

with somebody besides us for a change.

So, what, you just go out on the street, get some man,

bring him up here to eat with me

like I'm a charity case?

No, Momma, I didn't say that.

Maxine, it's just a friendly meal.

That's what Robert Blake said.

We are not friends. I don't know you.

And you sure don't know me.

Well, I was thinking we could get to know each other.

Anybody ask you what you think?

ROCHELLE: Momma!

Don't "Momma" me.

I'm too old for a blind date.

Wouldn't say that if it was Stevie Wonder.

I don't know who you're eating with,

but you're not going to eat with me.

Momma...

Just have a couple of peas or something.

Sorry?

What about you?

Would you care to eat?

What?

I came to eat.

I don't care who I eat with.

Might as well.

My brother never asked me for advice about girls

and there was a good reason.

What's wrong?

Well, there's this girl.

What about her?

You know when a girl likes you,

but you just don't like her back?

Is he serious? No, I don't.

Well, how do you tell her without hurting her feelings?

I have no idea.

I should probably just tell her the truth, huh?

I don't know.

I should probably tell her.

Okay.

Thanks. Welcome.

Why can't everything be this easy?

Ma, I can't believe you treated that man like that.

I can't believe you treated me like a floozy

looking to pick up some strange man off the street.

Well, Ma, ever since Daddy died,

I just worry about you being lonely.

I am not lonely.

I love coming here, taking care of you and your kids.

But you're driving me crazy.

Ma, this is my house.

I like to do things my way.

This family already has one momma.

We don't need two.

Okay.

I'll go.

But Ma, I didn't mean it like that. Uh-uh, no, no.

Hey, Chantal.

Can I ask you a question?

Yeah. How come you don't like me?

I don't know.

I just don't.

It's got to be something.

Do you think I'm ugly?

No.

Do you think I'm dumb?

No.

Then what is it?

Just tell me the truth.

You're too tall.

Never stopped Danny DeVito.

Hello.

Are you stalking me?

: No.

I just dropped by Mr. Omar's for a moment to say hello.

: Oh, I'm sorry.

Um...

I'm sorry about what happened last night.

I didn't know that you had no idea I was coming.

My daughter did the same thing to me.

Where do they get off doing that?

If I wanted to meet someone, I would.

I-I... I know.

My daughter had so many women coming through

it was like a Miss America Pageant.

She thinks she's protecting me.

I just wish

she would get out of my house.

The only way I can get my son out of the house

is to put dinner on the stoop.

I'm so sorry I was rude.

I was just caught off guard.

Ah, don't worry about it.

It was just nice to meet you.

Well, very nice meeting you, too.

Uh, Maxine.

Would you mind if we had a cup of coffee sometime?

Coffee?

I guess.

How about now?

Oh, well, that would be nice.

Don't try anything funny.

I have mace and a whistle in my purse.

He's got a gun.

Do you know what you've started?

What?

Every kid in this school is swearing

like a drunken sailor.

It's out of control.

Well, I told them not to tell anybody.

You told everybody.

It's not like I said it in class or anything.

Didn't mean somebody else didn't.

Young man...

I want a word with you.

In fact, I want seven words with you.

Number one had hit the fan.

Suspended?

For talking in class?

What did you say?

Well, it's a routine called

"The Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television."

Well, what are they? I can't say them.

We're on television, woman!

Didn't you hear the name of the bit?

Boy, what are these words?

Write them down.

When I was writing these words down,

I realized they were more silly than dirty.

You said this?!

Look at this.

I never even say this.

Why would you say this?!

I was trying to be funny.

Oh, you're gonna feel mighty funny when I beat the...

number one out of you.

Look, they're the seven words you can't say on TV.

Where does it say you can say 'em

in school? And why would you think

that something like this is funny anyway?

It's no worse than Redd Foxx.

Where did you hear Redd Foxx? Here.

What do you mean "here"?

A few nights ago,

y'all were playing the records and I heard it.

Some parents would blame themselves-- not mine.

Who is this anyway?

George Carlin.

George Carlin from Car Wash?

Yeah.

No wonder his part in that movie was so small.

If he'd have said anything else, they wouldn't have been able

to put it out.

I'm sorry.

Mm-mm-mm. Chris,

if you're interested in comedy, that's fine,

but some things are not appropriate for your age.

Just because we listen to Redd Foxx

don't mean you're supposed to.

There's a reason why we waited for you to go upstairs

and fall asleep.

You can't understand comedy like this.

I understood it.

You understood which one?

All of them.

The one about the lady with the funny lips?

Yeah.

The one about making sandwiches?

Yeah.

The one about the black sheep?

Yeah.

The one about the Fukawi Indian?

: Yeah.

Boy, where did you learn all of this?

I don't know; I just picked it up.

Chris, look, the point is: this is not comedy for children.

Next time I find out you're telling these type of jokes,

you're gonna get more than suspended.

You done?

Yeah, why?

'Cause as far as I'm concerned,

this time is next time.

Number three...! * Everybody hates Chris.

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