"There ain't nothing wrong with being hated," said Chris Rock to a capacity crowd at Alumni Arena Sunday night.
Chris Rock takes that to heart and has never been afraid to speak his mind. In his latest stand-up set, Rock attacks everyone from strippers to President George W. Bush.
His "Black Ambition Tour" is full of fresh rants that toe the line, and then ambitiously jump right over it.
Saturday night he proceeded to tug at the hate-strings of Bills fans by drudging up painful memories of Super Bowls lost.
"If only that kick had been just a little to the left," he said, with his famously wide grin painted across his face.
Rock covered an array of topics including the obvious subjects that all comedians have been roasting (Arnold Schwarzeneggar and Bush) as well as topics most won't dare to touch, like U.S. policy of the 1700s and the ways marriage has lost its sanctity.
"Marriage is not sacred. Marriage is a piece of s***," Rock commented on the latter topic.
"You can either be married and bored, or single and lonely," he said repeatedly, dragging the "o" on lonely to emphasize why he made the decision to get married six years ago.
"Men are handicapped when it comes to arguing, because men have a need to make sense," he said. "Women aren't going to let a little thing like making sense get in the way of them making a point."
Rock stated some of his political views, maintaining that he has no preconceived opinions towards each issue.
"Anyone who makes up their mind before they hear the issue is an idiot. Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives, Liberals - they're all idiots," he said.
In reference to the "threats" he finds idle, he said, "I ain't scared of al-Qaeda, I'm scared of al Cracker. And we all need to be afraid of Al Cracker, whether you're white, black, whatever."
"I think President Bush sent the girl to Kobe's room," he added, claiming it was a diversionary tactic to take the public's collective mind off of Bush's own mistakes.
It seems that hardly any comedian today can walk off the stage without mentioning Schwarzenegger.
"As soon as he became governor he started burning up California," Rock said. "What did you think he was gonna do? He's The Terminator."
On another water cooler topic, he commented briefly on the near-fatal incident between Roy Horn and his performing tiger.
"Everybody's saying the tiger went crazy. That tiger didn't go crazy, that tiger went tiger ... Tigers are supposed bite people in the head."
For the politically conscious portion of his routine, Rock commented on the former policies of the United States that made affirmative action necessary as present-day legislation.
"During slavery, it was the policy of the United States to kill smart black people," he said.
"A black 'C' student can't be CEO of a company, but it just happens to be that a white 'C' student is the president of the United States," he said.
Rock claimed that all Americans follow the same religion.
"Americans worship money," he said. "You know why the banks are closed on Sunday? Because if they were open there wouldn't be nobody in church."
Each of his jokes sent waves laughter through the arena, as the UB crowd expressed their pleasure in their hilarity.
"My favorite part was probably the part about drugs and prostitution," said Val Nolte, a freshman undecided major.
"The show was very entertaining, worth the wait," said Adia Jordan, a senior communications major.
"I think he spoke a lot of truth about females," said Sean Teehan, a chemical engineering major.
Mario Joyner, who has appeared on HBO's "The Chris Rock Show," opened for Rock, getting the audience's collective gut warmed for busting, commenting on such original topics as "anti-penis polarization" and the men who invented caller ID and caller ID block.
Photo: Courtesy of Laron Fomby
