Comedy review: Chris Rock – Total Blackout

MUCH has changed since Chris Rock last toured. His daughters have become teenagers, and though rich and privileged, he schools them harshly in the realities of growing up black in racist America. His infidelity and appetite for pornography have cost him his 16-year marriage, and the awareness that he’s won and also lost in life is wrung for wry bittersweetness. More recently, the #MeToo movement has cost his peer Louis CK his career. Or, as Rock puts it, with typically rough poetry, “a titty from ‘96” has returned to haunt him.