Rock has always had great jokes but I have always cringed at his method of delivery. I am not a fan of the repeating things three times in various inflections or types of voice. It has always seemed like a lazy and blunt force way of forcing an audience to accept the baseline premise of what your joke is about to address. His jokes have always made up for that, to me, though. I watched half of the new one last night and most of the time he just sounds like a boomer. Maybe that’s not fair. Maybe he just sounds like he is trying to talk to too wide of an audience. For example, he says some boomer stuff, then massages it to sound like a boomers approach but with an open mind. It’s not bad. But it’s not good so far. It makes me wonder if we are all too far apart now to have comedians that are widely enjoyed across the culture. I am not looking to be offended or for comedians to offend others, but spreading too far seems to equate to talking to no one a big part of the time.
Also, so far it seems like he is teasing up to the thing that will actually make his money in this one. Saving that for the end.
