Chris Rock's New Sitcom, "Everyone Hates Chris", Who's Going To Watch?

[KittyWampus]

Everyone Hates Chris- Rock narrates and produces this quasi-autobiographical sitcom about a working-class family in the Brooklyn ghetto in the early 1980s.


"Meet Chris Rock's mom: ''I will slap your name out of the phone book and call Ma Bell and tell her I did it!'' Meet Chris Rock's dad: ''Unplug that clock, boy! You can't tell time when you sleep. It's two cents an hour!'' Meet Everybody Hates Chris, the best comedy of the new season.

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Imagine The Wonder Years if Kevin Arnold's next-door-neighbor was not Winnie Cooper but a crack ho, and you've got the flavor. This is a show where the soundtrack plays the racially utopian Ebony And Ivory while the screen shows a terrified young Chris fleeing one step ahead of mad-dog mob of his white classmates, who do not look as though they want him for a roundtable discussion of Martin Luther King's ''I had a dream'' speech.

Everybody Hates Chris includes plenty of playful domestic humor about annoying siblings and whip-cracking parents, but race and class never drift far off-stage. When Chris' parents move to Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, unaware that it's in the early stages of a brutalizing drug epidemic, his parents quickly realize he can't stay in the local school. 'Much like rock 'n' roll, school shootings were also invented by blacks and stolen by the white man,'' Rock's narration track explains as kids dive for cover on-screen.

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....Though a lot of screen time is devoted to Rock's hilariously penny-pinching father, not overly given to dainty words of endearment, it comes with an warm asterisk: 'He was one of four fathers on the block . . . Coming home was his way of saying `I love you.' ''

The writing in Everybody Hates Chris is so funny that there's a tendency to overlook the actors who make it come alive. But the show is brilliantly cast, including newcomer Tyler James Williams (Sesame Street) as the hapless young Chris, Tichina Arnold (Martin) as his no-nonsense mom, and Terry Crews (The Longest Yard) as his penurious dad."

[Patiod]

1. We got a CD of the 1st ep in our copy of Entertainment Weekly

Yes, we subscribe to EW. I fly a lot, and it's great airplane reading.

It sounds like a great show, and we love Chris Rock.

[NYYFan]

2. Heck Yes !

Can't wait to hear his mom say: "I will slap yo' name out the phone book, and call Ma bell and TELL her I DID IT !"

[Lilyhoney]

3. I will give it a try. nt

[peekaloo]

4. I'll put my foot so far up your rear end you'll have toes for teeth!

I'll watch.

It will be nice to have two funny shows to watch each week. (My Name is Earl being the other. Oops Boston Legal next week AND CYE this Sunday!) :woohoo:

[warrens]

5. Color me there

I've been waiting for this for a long time. Somebody's been plastering Honk If You Hate Chris bumperstickers all over the place here in Chicago.

[jane_pippin]

6. Yeah, I'll check it out. I think it will be ok, if not good. n/t

[KittyWampus]

7. gonna kick in case people hadn't heard. 9pm eastern tonight.