Chris Rock
Comedian Devine cites as showing up to clubs alone without an entourage
Chris Rock (Comedian Devine cites as showing up to clubs alone without an entourage) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Cancel culture, Stand-up comedy craft, Forgiveness.
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
Cancel culture
Using the Salem witch trials as an analogy, Rock argues that problems arise when such movements are institutionalized.
“But then you open up a witch office and now you got to start lying”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 57:04
Rock argues that wokeness, while valuable for giving marginalized people a voice, resembles the Old Testament in lacking forgiveness.
“But the problem with wokeness is we're in the Old Testament right now, okay? And the Old Testament has no forgiveness”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 54:05
Rock defends staying friends with a canceled friend, arguing that friendship that lasts only through good times is not friendship.
“And I was like, well, if you're only friends with your friends when they're good, they're not your friends, you know?”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 52:55
Rock argues that people who take offense are not oversensitive but mean.
“People are like, oh, people are so sensitive. I'm like, no, they're not sensitive. They're mean”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 29:25
Rock says he returned the advance for a book on interracial relationships because he did not trust his publisher in an era of taking things out of context.
“And I was like, I don't trust these people I'm working with. So I gave the money back”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 27:42
Other remarks
Rock says one of his biggest regrets is that he could never relax around Prince, who wanted to be his friend.
“Also, not to name drop, one of my biggest regrets in life is I could never relax around Prince”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 40:48
Rock argues that a self-destructive person is someone who makes only a few bad decisions a year, which is enough to ruin a life.
“What I'm trying to say is a self-destructive person is basically a person that makes six bad decisions a year”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 16:14
Rock says roughly half of his jobs came from people simply considering him a good, considerate friend.
“Even now, if I look over my career, probably half of my gigs are just somebody going, oh, he's cool”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 14:42
Rock says Hollywood has bad parts but is still far better than an ordinary job.
“Are there bad parts about Hollywood? Yes. But it's still better than a normal job by a lot”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 5:23
Stand-up comedy craft
Rock says the ability to laugh at oneself is probably the highest form of intelligence.
“And the ability to laugh at oneself is probably the highest form of intelligence”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 58:57
Rock argues that jokes work better when they contain truth and that audiences can detect fakery.
“I mean jokes tend to work better when there's some truth in them”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 45:27
Forgiveness
Rock says love is revealed only when one must forgive someone.
“You don't realize if you love somebody until you have to forgive them”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 53:00
Citing his grandfather's return to society after prison, Rock argues that accusations should be certain and that punishment should have a time limit.
“And B, when people do things, there's a fucking time limit in the real world”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 35:13
Racial inequality in the United States
Rock argues that, despite more courtesy, Black Americans' access to wealth, education and healthcare has changed little since 1968.
“the distribution of wealth, the access to education, the access to health care is pretty much where it was when Dr. King got shot”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 59:22
Bob Fosse films
Rock says Bob Fosse's films were the biggest influence on Misty Green.
“So, yeah, the Fosse stuff, more than anything, I would say, has been an influence”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 52:22
The Apartment
Rock argues that Adam Driver's procurer character in Misty Green is essentially the same as Jack Lemmon's character in The Apartment.
“There is nothing different between the Adam Driver character in my movie and the Jack Lemmon character in the”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 46:50
Aging
Rock says that later in a comedian's career audiences judge only results, much as a veteran athlete gets short contracts tied to performance.
“But later on, you're like LeBron. You're like, it's all results, and we'll give you a one-year deal as long as you play like LeBron”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 44:02
Nonverbal learning disability
Rock says a friend suspected he had Asperger's, but testing showed nonverbal learning disorder instead.
“It wasn't Asperger's, but it was a thing called NVLD, nonverbal learning disorder”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 38:29
Wrongful conviction
Rock says he still regrets not paying for a lawyer for Roger Logan, who was later exonerated after 19 years in prison.
“I had the means to help him, and I didn't. And I don't know if we could have got him out or not, but still”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 31:34
Media credibility and independent journalism
Rock argues that major newspapers like the Times and the Journal ignore nuance by sorting comedy into manosphere-conservative or woke categories.
“So they like something really, you know, it's like, okay, this is a manosphere conservative thing, or this is a really kind of wokey woke thing”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 9:20
Bring the Pain
Rock argues that his 1996 special Bring the Pain could be made today and would be even bigger.
“I'd be able to make it. It would be huge. As a matter of fact, you know what? I'll go even further. Bring the Pain would be bigger today”
The Daily: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 8:25
Appearances
Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About ForgivenessThe Daily · Oct 3, 2026 · 1 h 3 min
Chris Rock tells David Marchese about his film Misty Green, forgiveness, cancel culture, therapy and an NVLD diagnosis, Hollywood, and why comedy needs nuance.
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Often appears with
- David Marchese · 1 shared episode