While we’re all hoping that a new Chris Rock special will come out in the not so distant future, you can watch Chris Rock do stand-up right now during his SNL monologue from last night.
Yes, in case you’re wondering, he covers the Boston Marathon Bombing and the new Freedom Tower in NYC.
Whenever tragedy strikes, it’s a confounding position for all of comedy whether to address it or not and, if so addressing it, how to go about it. Many off-color, disgusting jokes are made, but it’s all out of this need to cope, to relate, a need for levity.
Fortunately, there are comedians like Stephen Colbert who know how to just comedically address such a thing as the tragedy at the Boston Marathon.
Watch him do so on the opening of last night’s Colbert Report.