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.Hefelt great admiration and respect for their abilities.The Longest Yard was filmed at the New Mexico State Peni-tentiary.Cast members had fun making the movie; betweenshots, they played a lot of basketball.Most of the cast alsoattended football camp to prepare them for the movie.ButRock, who had no athletic scenes in the film, did not need togo to football camp.He later joked in an interview that heattended whistling camp to prepare for all the blowing of thewhistle he would be doing as a coach.A very different movie made for a very different audience,Madagascar was about four animals (a zebra, a lion, a hippo,and a giraffe) that get shipped from their home in a NewYork City zoo to Madagascar.The animated comedy did notpreach high morals or have an obvious message, other than,perhaps, to stand by your friends.Mostly, the movie is merely good-humored and warm-hearted fun.Rock s character, Marty (the zebra), celebratedhis tenth birthday early in the movie.One of his memorablelines occurred during his birthday party when he said, I m 73The Big Screen and the Small ScreenFrom left, David Schwimmer, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith, and BenStiller pose at the premiere of Madagascar in New York.They wereholding puppets that represented their characters in the animatedcomedy.The actors have signed on to make a sequel to the film.ten years old, and I don t even know if I m black with whitestripes or white with black stripes! Lines like this broughtlaughs from the audience (including Rock s daughters, whowere happy to finally get to see one of their father s movies).The movie did not receive rave reviews with critics oftencomplaining about a thin plot but it became DreamWorks smost successful original movie ever, after earning more than500 million dollars at the worldwide box office.In the UnitedStates, it stayed among the top ten movies for eight weeks.DreamWorks plans to make a sequel to Madagascar,expected to come out in 2008.The leading actors (Rock asthe zebra, Ben Stiller as the lion, Jada Pinkett Smith as thehippo, and David Schwimmer as the giraffe) have all agreedto take part in the sequel. 74CHRIS ROCKTHE ARISTOCRATSThe Aristocrats, released by ThinkFilm, opened in theaterson July 29, 2005.The unrated movie has no nudity, no sex,and no violence, yet it boasts of being one of the mostshocking movies you will ever see. Penn Jillette and PaulProvenza were the film s cocreators (Provenza was also thedirector).They filmed about 100 comedians always tell-ing the same joke over a period of two years.The resultis 89 minutes of extremely crude comedy.The movie waswell-reviewed by critics.The comedians who took part in the film, including GeorgeCarlin, Paul Reiser, Robin Williams, Sarah Silverman, andDrew Carey, tell their own versions of one particular joke.Thejoke has been around since the days of vaudeville; some call itthe world s funniest joke, and others call it the world s worstjoke.The joke begins, A man walks into a talent agent s officewith his family and says, Have I got an act for you! The talentagent replies, So what do they do? From this point, come-dians improvise to make the joke their own, generally tryingto be as offensive and outrageous as possible.Every comediantries to top other comedians in terms of shock value.Althoughthe middle of the joke is always different, the beginning andthe punch line remain the same.When the agent asks what thefamily calls itself, the man replies, The Aristocrats. Only two black comics are represented in the film: Rockand Whoopi Goldberg.In part, this is because some of theblack comedians Provenza tried to recruit for the film werenot available, but it is also because the joke is historicallytold by white comedians.Rock does not even tell the jokein the film.Provenza caught Rock backstage and capturedRock s explanation of why so few black comics tell thejoke
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