Chris Rock took aim at the state of Trump's America, but also himself and the breakdown of his marriage in a signature-style, expletive ridden rant at the Total Blackout tour opening Perth Arena on Friday night.
A few lucky comedy fans got a taste-tester of his latest material when Chris rocked up to an impromptu stand-up gig at the Charles Hotel the night before.
At his main gig in front of thousands of fans, the Grammy and Emmy Award winning comedian, actor and writer wasted no time to lay into Australia for its treatment of black people after a few jibes at Perth's remoteness.
Rock, famous for his jokes about racial stereotyping, reckons compared to Australia black people in America had nothing to complain about, as our "Aboriginal shit was f---ed up".
He then took aim at the state of his homeland, putting the focus on gun laws, police brutality and racial inequality before exclaiming that Trump was just a continuation of the status quo, Obama being the exception to the rule, the "hot chick you had no business being with".
He discloses he cheated on his wife of 16-years three times, one of which he claims was a member of Destiny's Child "that is not Beyonce". Rock explains that's why his shows have a mobile phone lock-down, as he doesn't "need that sh-t out there".
The crowd of devotees at Perth Arena lapped up the crude and crass bits of Rock's set, delivering belly-laughs over glass-shards in vanilla ice-cream, his "piece-of-sh-t' attempt to find god, what Meryl Streep would be like in a porno and the marital weapons of "f---ing and p---y strike.
Neither religion, education, parental failures and his porn addiction are off-limits to Rock, whose comedy is that of a skilled raconteur, who organically draws from personal experience.
So when he moved on to his own demons, the breakdown of his marriage, his custody battle and dating exploits, the show got confessional and somewhat cathartic, delivering real-life laughs that got substance beyond the F-word spluttering of one -liners.
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