"What ghost?"

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 22nd, 2004

There’s a quote at the beginning of Chris Rock‘s 1997 book “Rock This.” It’s unattributed, but we assume it’s Rock’s quote, and it’s just floating there on the page by itself, in italics.

Every comedian has a moment in his life when he realizes he’s a bit different from everyone else. It’s like being the only guy in a movie who sees the ghost. The ghost talks to you and you talk to him. Then you turn to your friend and say, “Hey. Do you see that ghost?” And he says, “What ghost?”

The book pretty much goes downhill from there, but the above quote is worth the buck we paid for it at a thrift shop in Reno. Rock had already starred in CB4 and Boomerang, and he had his HBO show going, so it’s a wonder that Hyperion didn’t demand a better book than this. Maybe Rock himself should have demanded a better book.

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