Bigger & Blacker

Bigger & Blacker
Bigger & Blacker
Live album by Chris Rock
Released	July 13, 1999
Recorded	May 1999
Venue	Apollo Theater, Harlem
Genre	Comedy
Length	67:53
Label	DreamWorks
Producer	Prince Paul & Don Newkirk
Chris Rock chronology

*Bigger & Blacker*
Bigger & Blacker
Genre	Stand-up comedy
Written by	Chris Rock
Directed by	Keith Truesdell
Starring	Chris Rock
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Chris Rock; Michael Rotenberg; Sandy Chanley
Producer	Tom Bull
Editor	Grady Cooper
Running time	65 minutes
Production companies	CR Enterprises; Production Partners; 3 Arts Entertainment
Original release
Network	HBO
Release	July 10, 1999

Bigger & Blacker is a television special that premiered on HBO on July 10, 1999, starring comedian Chris Rock. This is Rock's third special for HBO and was recorded at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.

CD version[edit]

The CD version was released on July 13, 1999, on the DreamWorks label. The album features the same live stand-up comedy material from the HBO special, but it also includes studio-recorded comic sketches, featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard, Biz Markie, Gerald Levert, Ali LeRoi, Wanda Sykes, Kaz Silver, Horatio Sanz, Ice Cube, Robin Montague, Kali Londono, Don Newkirk, Kate Wright, and Nneka Kai Morton.

Track listing[edit]

Clermont Lounge #1 – 0:55
"Black Mall" – 3:47
ODB Words of Wisdom #1 – 0:15
"Crazy White Kids" – 8:26
Monica Interview – 1:58
"Porno PSA" – 1:32
"No Sex" – 4:22
"Taxes" – 1:57
ODB Words of Wisdom #2 – 0:17
Savion Glover – 1:02
"Insurance" – 8:17
Clermont Lounge #2 – 0:58
Nerd & Fly Girl – 2:58
"Race" – 4:17
NYPD – 1:29
ODB Words of Wisdom #3 – 0:19
Roger & Zapp – 0:29
"Two Women" – 4:07
Table Dance – 2:29
Snow Flake – 3:10
"Women" – 7:54
Me & ODB – 7:09

Reviews[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link

Bigger & Blacker won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album.

Personnel[edit]

Pen & Pixel - Cover art^[1]

Sales[edit]


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States	—	404,000^[2]

References[edit]

^ "Red Bull Music Academy Daily". Red Bull Music Academy Daily. 2019-08-13. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
^ Cohen, Jonathan (4 February 2004). "Billboard Bits: Chris Rock, Ben Folds, Badly Drawn Boy". Billboard. Retrieved 5 June 2018.

External links[edit]

Bigger & Blacker at IMDb

[Red_Bull_Music_Academy_Daily_2019-1] "Red Bull Music Academy Daily". Red Bull Music Academy Daily. 2019-08-13. Retrieved 2022-11-02.

[2] Cohen, Jonathan (4 February 2004). "Billboard Bits: Chris Rock, Ben Folds, Badly Drawn Boy". Billboard. Retrieved 5 June 2018.

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Filmography Awards and nominations
Television	The Chris Rock Show (1997–2000) Everybody Hates Chris (2005–2009) Awards and nominations
Films directed, written and produced	Head of State (2003) I Think I Love My Wife (2007) Top Five (2014)
Films written and produced	CB4 (1993) Down to Earth (2001) Good Hair (2009) Spiral (2021)
Comedy albums	Born Suspect (1991) Roll with the New (1997) Bigger & Blacker (1999) Never Scared (2005)
Comedy specials	Comedy's Dirtiest Dozen (1988) Big Ass Jokes (1994) Bring the Pain (1996) Bigger & Blacker (1999) Never Scared (2004) Kill the Messenger (2008) Tamborine (2018) Selective Outrage (2023)
See also	"Niggas vs. Black People" "No Sex (In the Champagne Room)" "Blame Game" Talking Funny Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo Tony Rock Chris Rock–Will Smith slapping incident
Category

v t e Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album
1950s	"The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" – Ross Bagdasarian Sr. (1958) The Battle of Kookamonga – Homer and Jethro / Inside Shelley Berman – Shelley Berman (1959)
1960s	Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris – Jo Stafford & Paul Weston / The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! – Bob Newhart (1960) An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May – Elaine May & Mike Nichols (1961) The First Family – Vaughn Meader (1962) "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)" – Allan Sherman (1963) I Started Out as a Child – Bill Cosby (1964) Why Is There Air? – Bill Cosby (1965) Wonderfulness – Bill Cosby (1966) Revenge – Bill Cosby (1967) To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With – Bill Cosby (1968) Sports – Bill Cosby (1969)
1970s	The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress – Flip Wilson (1970) This Is A Recording – Lily Tomlin (1971) FM & AM – George Carlin (1972) Los Cochinos – Cheech & Chong (1973) That Nigger's Crazy – Richard Pryor (1974) ...Is It Something I Said? – Richard Pryor (1975) Bicentennial Nigger – Richard Pryor (1976) Let's Get Small – Steve Martin (1977) A Wild and Crazy Guy – Steve Martin (1978) Reality...What a Concept – Robin Williams (1979)
1980s	No Respect – Rodney Dangerfield (1980) Rev. Du Rite – Richard Pryor (1981) Live on the Sunset Strip – Richard Pryor (1982) Eddie Murphy: Comedian – Eddie Murphy (1983) "Eat It" – "Weird Al" Yankovic (1984) Whoopi Goldberg (Original Broadway Show Recording) – Whoopi Goldberg (1985) Those of You with or Without Children, You'll Understand – Bill Cosby (1986) A Night at the Met – Robin Williams (1987) Good Morning, Vietnam – Robin Williams (1988) P.D.Q. Bach: 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults – Peter Schickele (1989)
1990s	P.D.Q. Bach: Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities – Peter Schickele (1990) P.D.Q. Bach: WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio – Peter Schickele (1991) P.D.Q. Bach: Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion – Peter Schickele (1992) Jammin' in New York – George Carlin (1993) Live from Hell – Sam Kinison (1994) Crank(y) Calls – Jonathan Winters (1995) Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations – Al Franken (1996) Roll with the New – Chris Rock (1997) The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 – Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner (1998) Bigger & Blacker – Chris Rock (1999)
2000s	Brain Droppings – George Carlin (2000) Napalm & Silly Putty – George Carlin (2001) Robin Williams: Live on Broadway – Robin Williams (2002) Poodle Hat – "Weird Al" Yankovic (2003) The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents ... America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction – Jon Stewart and the cast of The Daily Show (2004) Never Scared – Chris Rock (2005) The Carnegie Hall Performance – Lewis Black (2006) The Distant Future – Flight of the Conchords (2007) It's Bad for Ya – George Carlin (2008) A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! – Stephen Colbert (2009)
2010s	Stark Raving Black – Lewis Black (2010) Hilarious – Louis C.K. (2011) Blow Your Pants Off – Jimmy Fallon (2012) Calm Down Gurrl – Kathy Griffin (2013) Mandatory Fun – "Weird Al" Yankovic (2014) Live at Madison Square Garden – Louis C.K. (2015) Talking for Clapping – Patton Oswalt (2016) The Age of Spin & Deep in the Heart of Texas – Dave Chappelle (2017) Equanimity & The Bird Revelation – Dave Chappelle (2018) Sticks and Stones – Dave Chappelle (2019)
2020s	Black Mitzvah – Tiffany Haddish (2020) Sincerely Louis CK – Louis C.K. (2021) The Closer – Dave Chappelle (2022) What's In a Name? – Dave Chappelle (2023)