Chris Rock Roasts Oprah: “She’s So Rich, China Owes Her Money”

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by Matt Schneider | 8:59 am, December 29th, 2010

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On the CBS broadcast of the 33rd annual Kennedy Center Honors, Oprah Winfrey was one of the honorees to receive recognition from her fellow celebrities. Oprah pal John Travolta and Barbara Walters provided some harmless remarks, but luckily comedian Chris Rock arrived on the scene to offer some uncomfortably hilarious jabs at both the “most powerful person in the world” and the guy sitting next to her (Barack Obama).

While making fun of Oprah always seems amusing (as Bill Maher recently demonstrated), it’s particularly exciting watching it be done to her face. Rock joked about how Oprah got Obama his job and also about how rich she is, claiming “she’s so rich, China owes her money!”

Unfortunately, just when Rock gets warmed up, making a sex joke about Oprah and fellow honoree Paul McCartney, out rushed Travolta and Walters to end the fun.

Watch the amusing clip from CBS below:

Barbara Walters, cbs, Chris Rock, Kennedy Center, Oprah Winfrey, Paul McC

notsofast

Thank God for Chris Rock’s white writers. They make him so funny.
Big Eddie

It just never gets old when celebrities honor each other .
http://www.facebook.com/people/Josh-Feldman/1158574704 Josh Feldman

Oh, come on. Why’d they cut him off? He was the best part of that whole clip!
notsofast

It was so nice to see that all the recipients had their teeth in this time.
http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

notsofast said:
Thank God for Chris Rock’s white writers. They make him so funny.

Really? That is the best you can do? Overdrawn at the insult bank or just plain mean and relatively pointless?

It is a shame they stopped him like that. It does prove that some people have no sense of humor. The Scientologist/actor and the journalist ought to have more respect for the First Amendment. After all, without it, both of them are out of business.

As would be notsofast and his amazing ability to reduce any discussion to gutter insults with just one pathetic sentence.
The_Reasonable_Lib

notsofast said:
Thank God for Chris Rock’s white writers. They make him so funny.

You mean like this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mooney_%28comedian%29
notsofast

Keeva said:
Keeva says:
December 29, 2010 at 9:56 am Keeva(Quote)
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Why don’t you just take your head out of your ass, and speak English, dullard?
notsofast

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
You mean like this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mooney_%28comedian%29

No.

I guess you never saw his writers when they joined him on stage to accept an Emmy.

I guess a racist like you just hates to see his writers.
Pablo

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
You mean like this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mooney_%28comedian%29

When did Paul Mooney write for Chris Rock?
http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

notsofast said:
Why don’t you just take your head out of your ass, and speak English, dullard?

Notsofast is always so eloquent and simply proving my point. Thanks for saving me having to explain yet again that the extremes on BOTH sides that do nothing but toss pointless insults are the real problem.

As longs this kind of rhetoric is what passes for discourse, than we as a nation are doomed to stagnation and gridlock.