FILE – In this Sept. 14, 2009 file photo originally released by InStyle, Chris Rock is seen at the InStyle Lounge at the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. (AP Photo/Casey Rodgers, InStyle)Associated Press
NEW YORK – How do you top a winter in which you’ve made fun of Oprah Winfrey to her face, gleefully butchered a classic Simon and Garfunkel song during a telethon and made a guest appearance on Kanye West‘s mega-selling CD?
If you’re Chris Rock, the next stop is Broadway.
“I always look for everything,” says the comedian, sitting at a table at the theater-district hangout Sardi’s before rehearsals of his new gritty play by Stephen Adly Guirgis.
“You want to give your audience something funny or something good — that can be anything. It can be a play, it can be a movie,” he says. “Hey, I was on Kayne’s record! That’s funnier than probably anything I’ve done in a couple of years. You know what I mean? How can I be funny this year?”
The answer now is “The Motherf—– With the Hat,” a play that Rock describes as “‘The Honeymooners’ with
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