Chris Rock: Bring The Pain - Trivia

Trivia

  • As Rock walks towards the stage, the covers of comedy albums that inspired Rock are shown. They are in order:
    • Bill Cosby, To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With
    • Dick Gregory, In Living Black & White
    • Flip Wilson as Geraldine, Don't Fight the Feeling
    • Richard Pryor, ...Is It Something I Said?
    • Steve Martin, Comedy is Not Pretty!
    • Pigmeat Markham, Tune Me In
    • Woody Allen, Woody Allen
    • Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy
  • The music playing as Rock walks to the stage consists of the opening bars of Case's 1996 hit single "Touch Me, Tease Me".
  • The title of the special is a reference to Method Man's 1994 hit single "Bring the Pain". Method Man is thanked in the closing credits.
  • Carol Schwartz is the candidate who lost to a "crack head" (Marion Barry) in the 1994 Washington D.C. Mayoral Election.
  • The "HBO jail special" that Rock refers to which features the "Tossed Salad Man" was a documentary titled Prisoners of the War on Drugs.
  • During the closing credits, Rock goes back to his dressing room and shakes hands with his brother, Tony. Writer Nelson George can also be seen in the background.
  • In 2002, a DVD of the special was released by Dreamworks. The cover features a parody of a well-known picture of Sammy Davis Jr. standing in front of the Sands Hotel. Rock's head was grafted onto Davis' body and the Sands' sign is changed to read "Chris Rock". The DVD also features an interview with Nelson George in which Rock reflects on the impact of the special.
  • The Giant 'C' and 'R' on the stage behind Rock resembles the cap insignia of the Colorado Rockies.

Read more about this topic:  Chris Rock: Bring The Pain

Famous quotes containing the word trivia:

    “Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.”
    —J.G. (James Graham)

    “The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera—and himself.”
    —Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)