Charles Barkley, comedian?

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on November 2nd, 2005

A recently updated entry on the Snopes.com website seeks to sort out the claim that “Comedian Chris Rock originated a quip about the best golfer in the world being black and the best rapper being white.” The status of the claim is “Undetermined”according to the usually rock solid and dependable website that is devoted to debunking myths and ferretting out truth.

Undetermined? That’s right. The site has found that the earliest known utterance of the quote is in an October 2000 newspaper profile of Charles Barkley. Hmmm… They go on to say that Rock wasn’t heard in public saying anything like that until 2005.

We find it hard to believe that Barkley could have come up with the observation. He was after all quoted as saying that he was misquoted in his autobiography. Let that sink in. His autobiography!