On Air interview
Rock gives an interview to Ryan Seacrest during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about his film Top Five.
I watched them (reality TV) we had this girl Karlie Redd from Love & Hip-Hop is one of the girls in the pillow fight (scene). I love all those shows: Love & Hip-Hop, the Atlanta one, the Kardashians. I studied it. I tried to not make fun of them, but make her a real person. I tried to make Gabrielle a real person that you cared about.
The Talk interview
Shepherd chats about playing Rock’s ex-girlfriend in the new film Top Five and gives her reaction to Underwood’s quitting the entertainment business:
You were going to quit, you were so tired of trying to do what you was supposed to do and everybody kept telling you; you weren’t going to do it. You were to physically this and that.
New York cover
Rock appears on the cover of the December 2014 issue of New York magazine. He talks about income inequality, Bill Cosby, and what he would report on Ferguson if he was a journalist.
I’d do a special on race, but I’d have no black people. Here’s the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it’s all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they’re not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.
New York Magazine interview
Rock discusses politics, comedy and Bill Cosby in an interview with New York Magazine. Rock on the recent allegations against Cosby:
I don’t know what to say. What do you say? I hope it’s not true. That’s all you can say. I really do. I grew up on Cosby. I love Cosby, and I just hope it’s not true. It’s a weird year for comedy. We lost Robin, we lost Joan, and we kind of lost Cosby.
Chris Rock interview
Williams
Yeah we’re going to do another one about natural hair. Because there is this big thing in the news, the relaxer companies are going out of business.
Chris Rock interview
Fallon interviews Rock about his upcoming comedy tour, The Black Plague and his hosting duties at the BET Awards.
The Oscars don’t want me, the BET Awards is for everybody. It’s for white people too. It’s the kind of show where you get Neil deGrasse Tyson and Superhead on the same show. Michelle Obama … and Rick Ross sitting next to each other.”
Elle Magazine interview
Rock gives interview to Elle about what he learned most from the making of his film Good Hair.
I couldn’t believe how strong these relaxer chemicals were. And I’ve actually had them in my hair I remember the burning. It would be against the Geneva conventions if they used this stuff at Guantánamo.
O Magazine interview
Rock gives his thoughts about why he walked away from The Chris Rock Show in an interview with O Magazine.
I really wanted to do movies, and it’s difficult to do movies on the side. Only if you’re Oprah can you say, I will shoot between July and September. And let me tell you—if I’m ever Oprah, I’m going to say, Can we shoot for one hour a day? It probably sounds crazy, but I may eventually go back to my show. I miss informing people and being an immediate part of the culture. I miss being able to do a whole piece on reparations. I miss the mix of having Adam Sandler on to sing some nasty song and then talking with Cornel West.