Chris Rock is a comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director. He was born on February 7, 1965, in Andrews, South Carolina. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and attended James Madison High School before dropping out and pursuing a career in comedy. Rock first gained widespread recognition in the early 1990s as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. He went on to star in several successful comedy specials for HBO, such as Bring the Pain and Bigger & Blacker. He has also acted in a number of films, including Dogma, Madagascar, and Grown Ups. Rock is known for his irreverent humor, which often addresses race, politics, and relationships. His awards include four Primetime Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, and several NAACP Image Awards.

"Elementary biography of comedian Chris Rock discussing his childhood, early career, and his rise as one of America's most famous comedians"--Provided by publisher.

The greatest entertainers of our time often combine talent, instincts, hard work, and perseverance. Chris Rock has drawn on all four to become one of the most revered, respected, and consistently successful comedians of the last two decades. This book explores his roots, highs and lows, and recent work, including his milestones in stand-up, television, and film, and his maturation as a directorial talent. Vivid imagery, memorable quotes, a career timeline, and more round out this fascinating narrative of striving for success and maintaining creative integrity, making it a compelling biography for comedy fans and casual readers alike.

In the 1990s, comedy was changed forever as a young funnyman known as Chris Rock caught the eye of comedy veteran Eddie Murphy. Readers will learn how Rock rocked his way to fame with stand-up comedy routines including witty and matter-of-fact discussions of hot-button subjects such as race relations and politics. This detailed book covers the many facets of Rock’s career, including his work as a writer, actor, producer, and more. Readers will enjoy this overview of Rock’s life, including a discussion of his stand-up methodology.

The history of African American humor is difficult to piece together. Occluded by slavery's gaps and distorted by racist stereotypes, African American humor has few extant works prior to the early twentieth century. Tucker's study focuses on comic rage, which he defines as an African American cultural expression that uses oral traditions to convey humor and militancy simultaneously in its confrontation of uncomfortable truths about inequalities and inconsistencies in American culture.

The acerbic comedian began his career on Saturday Night Live.

This book tells of the life and achievements of Chris Rock, known for his outrageous comedy as well as his work in the movies.

Rose Rock—child advocate, educator, and mother of ten-plus children, including comedian Chris Rock—shares her heartfelt and no-nonsense advice on parenting Uber-mom Rose Rock raised ten children and seventeen foster children. She did it by never shying away from hard conversations and by not being afraid to present strong ideas about boundaries, discipline, choices, and consequences. In short, Rose Rock tells it like it is. In Mama Rock's Rules, Rock shares the funny and highly practical lessons she learned both as a parent and an educator, while offering strategies for teaching children to be self-reliant. Her advice—delivered with a dose of wit and homespun humor—will inspire you to teach your kids right, whether your brood is one child or ten.

In my business you rub shoulders with corporate business, lone wolf criminal hackers, international hacking crews, scammers and large criminal syndicates. Criminal syndicates that can make large financial transfers disappear without a trace at both the sending and receiving banks; a hop from Dubai to Switzerland in the blink of an eye as though it never happened. "The baby harvest" is the concept of a criminal syndicate: making and raising virtual babies to adulthood to be put on the shelf for strategic long-term financial empire building. The babies once reaching adulthood will marry other virtual babies, obtain finance, enter the derivatives markets, obtain life insurance, and eventually be harvested, ('killed off') at investment maturity. Every baby is unique, effectively a 'designer baby'; fit for a purpose to perform certain tasks at 'harvest'. These could be to ship in a cache of firearms, drugs, sells fake bitcoins, stock trade, eBay power seller or a high income earner/high tax payer for life insurance. This book is written as a "How to guide for criminals." However, the purpose is to show the weaknesses in the identify systems for governments and law enforcement. It is envisaged as a playbook for authorities to beware of the vulnerabilities in systems. There are systems in place to reduce identify theft, such as the protection of Birth and Death Certificates from government bodies. But the weakness is in the creation of these documents in the first place. With over twenty years of experience I am a leading expert in the world of professional 'hackers'. My company, (Kustodian) made up of elite professionals, has been responsible for penetrating some of the largest global companies security systems- companies that YOU rely on every day to protect you - banks, insurance companies and governments. This book is written for all parties, it gives both an insight into a technique which has been formulating from my experiences over the last 20 years. This is no way a glorification of creating a crime, but it is a vulnerability that's needs some careful consideration.