[IMG:L]Chris Rock on Obama, his potty-mouth, running scared in … Brooklyn
Will he be adding President Barack Obama to his routine?
“You are always going to make fun of the president no matter what. You are a comedian, like ‘Oh black brother, I can’t tell jokes about this guy.’ I loved Bill Clinton, and I love Bill Clinton to this day, but when he slipped I was right there.”
And if Obama slips up?
“I’ll take him out!”
He traveled the globe for his latest HBO special.
“I needed something to motivate me. So it was like, What could be different? We’ve seen the guy in front of the camera, the guy in front of the screen, whatever. I just needed a chance to fail.”
So, what did he learn?
“Wow, people laugh at the same things in every country. I couldn’t believe it.”
He must have to self-censor for a kiddie flick like Madagascar?
“It is weird because I don’t really curse that much off stage … It is not my ‘thing.’ I try to write some jokes inbetween the ‘f–k, f–k, f–ks.’ Sometimes my daughters are at gymnastics, and people are commenting on how I’m not cursing — like I would be cursing at gymnastics. ‘So what’s up motherf–ker?’ Like that’s how they expect me to be.”
Madagascar 2 is better than the first.
“The first one felt like the pilot, and sometimes the pilot is clunky because you’ve got to get all these people in and all this information. Now we are just doing episodes.”
Where the gang could end up next …
“India, [we’ll do] the Bollywood version of ‘Move It, Move It.’”
He digs Africa for real.
“As crazy as this looks in the cartoon, when you’re out there in the plains, it’s kind of that colorful — lush and really exotic.”
And much safer than New York.
“I remember the first time I came back to Brooklyn and realized ‘I got to get out of here.’ I never knew I lived in the ghetto ‘til I came back. ‘What the f—k? It’s dangerous here. Somebody could get killed.’”
He got to record with Ben Stiller for Madagascar 2.
“Yep, Lennon and McCartney back together again.
Any plans for a live action project together?
“We are circling Tango & Cash [laughs]”
