Chris Rock always knew how to make people laugh. What no one expected was to see him this exposed.
On February 14, 2018, Netflix premiered “Tamborine”, his special recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and directed by Bo Burnham. It was his first show since “Kill the Messenger” in 2008, when he was still married. Ten years later, already divorced, Rock took the stage and, instead of dodging the subject, confronted it head-on: he talked about his marriage, infidelity, and everything he hadn’t known how to do right as a husband.
Netflix had reportedly paid 40 million dollars for a contract covering two of his specials, and this was the first. No one imagined the result would be so intimate. The Ringer’s review described it as his most personal work, without becoming entirely confessional, a balance that very few comedians manage to maintain onstage.
