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If I find a comedy club where no one's camera works, I'll go.
Chris Rock
Comedy
Club
Find
Comedy Club
Go
Camera
Where
Works
It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with that weave money. They don't have insurance. People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.
Chris Rock
Health
People
Problem
Money
Care
Big
Guess
Weave
Could
Bought
Like
Health Care
Insurance
Lot
Want
Reason
Credit
Card
Credit Card
Being with my kids is the best, most fun thing; it's a privilege.
Chris Rock
Best
Kids
Most
Privilege
Being
Fun
Fun Thing
Thing
I used to hang out with grandfather all the time because he used to pick me up from school sometimes, or drive me to my mother's, so I'd be with my grandfather a lot. I used to watch him write his sermons.
Chris Rock
Time
Me
Sometimes
School
Mother
Drive
Out
Write
Pick
He
Him
Because
His
Lot
Up
Hang
Grandfather
Used
Sermons
Watch
I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.
Chris Rock
Slightly
Above
Hack
New
Name
Rock
Overrated
Just
Should
Chris
Chris Rock
I love what's happened to me, but when I was a kid, I wanted to be the president of the United States.
Chris Rock
Love
Me
President
States
Kid
Wanted
Happened
United
United States
I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie.
Chris Rock
Live
Spike
Like
Nancy
Movie
Initially, I think I was eager to get off Staten Island and go away for school, that kind of thing. Then what you do maybe 10 years after that, you start maybe appreciating all the great things about the place you grew up. You can go back and enjoy it because you don't have that angst or sense of struggle to get away anymore.
Colin Jost
Great
You
Struggle
School
Great Things
Go Away
Sense
Enjoy
Think
Appreciating
Back
Kind
About
Angst
Because
Island
Go
Years
Off
Up
Get
Maybe
Anymore
Grew
After
Place
Then
Initially
Away
Eager
Thing
Things
Start
I never thought about 'being' in comedy when I grew up, because I didn't know it was a real job. But looking back, it's the only thing I ever really cared about.
Colin Jost
Comedy
Job
Thought
Looking
Looking Back
Back
About
Only
Never
Know
Because
Real
Real Job
Up
Being
The Only Thing
Grew
Really
Ever
Thing
Cared
When I was 10, I went to the Junior Olympics for the 50-meter and 100-meter breaststroke.
Colin Jost
Junior
Olympics
When I started at 'SNL,' I was lucky to start early. So now starting on 'Update,' I am the age when most people are when they start doing that. It feels like a different world and capacity, like starting over in another challenge. A heightened challenge.
Colin Jost
Age
People
World
Starting Over
Challenge
Over
Feels
Like
Most
Another
Am
Doing
SNL
Update
Different
Capacity
Lucky
Now
Different World
Start
Early
Started
Starting
Learning to be your natural self in front of five cameras and a silent studio takes time. Trying to be funny under duress is probably a lot like trying to play golf relaxed under pressure.
Colin Jost
Funny
Time
Learning
Natural
Pressure
Relaxed
Silent
Self
Studio
Takes
Like
Cameras
Lot
Five
Trying
Duress
Front
Golf
Your
Play
Play Golf
Before I went to a meeting at the 'Harvard Lampoon,' I had no idea that there was even a comedy magazine at Harvard, let alone that you could write comedy potentially for a living.
Colin Jost
Alone
You
Comedy
Before
Living
Meeting
Harvard
Magazine
No Idea
Potentially
Could
Write
Had
Idea
Even
When you're around people who are trying to be funny all day and trying to one-up each other, that's just naturally - if you want to do it - it's going to make you better.
Colin Jost
Funny
Day
You
People
Better
Other
All Day
Make
Around
Trying
Going
Just
Want
Naturally
Who
Each
Each week, we might write 500 jokes for 'Weekend Update,' and ultimately, we can only do about 10.
Colin Jost
Jokes
About
Only
Week
Weekend
Write
Ultimately
Update
Might
Each
Each Week
I never came out to the Hamptons when I was younger - it was always a fancy and exotic place.
Colin Jost
Out
Never
Always
Came
Exotic
Place
Fancy
Younger
I chose to buy a house in Montauk because it has a sleepier vibe than the rest of the East End. I also felt that I would run into city people in East Hampton and wanted more of a buffer.
Colin Jost
Buy
People
Rest
East
Run
Would
City
City People
More
House
Also
Buffer
Because
Felt
Hampton
End
Than
Vibe
Wanted
Chose
Having Twitter on your phone is like being with a journalist that hates you 24 hours a day. Anything you say on that can be spun. Truly, that's what you have to think of it as.
Colin Jost
Day
You
Phone
Journalist
Think
Twitter
Say
Hates
Having
Like
Hours
Truly
Spun
Being
Anything
Your
My mom was the breadwinner in my family. I always thought, 'That's how it is.' I never thought that was the exception.
Colin Jost
Mom
Family
Thought
Exception
Never
Always
How
I was at Harvard when Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, and I begged him not to do it.
Colin Jost
Facebook
Mark
Mark Zuckerberg
Harvard
Him
Created
The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.
Colin Quinn
Me
Crazy
You
People
Problems
Mind
Stage
Pay
Other
Say
Drives
Instrument
Self-Esteem
Comics
Hear
Want
Low
Might
Low Self-Esteem
Asking
Your
Standing
Play
Thing
Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.
Colin Quinn
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Sense
Everybody
Styles
Got
Just
Different
Different Styles
The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.
Colin Quinn
Alone
People
Live
More
Only
Priests
Like
Comics
Than
Who
I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.
Colin Quinn
Big
Superficial
More
Method
Method Actor
Much
Actor
I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.
Colin Quinn
Love
Time
Poetry
Write
It was tumultuous, it was crazy, but I would not trade it for anything.
Colin Quinn
Crazy
Would
Trade
Tumultuous
Anything
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