"No one really knows how your parents raised you inside your house," she adds.
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Then she switches to a full Noo Yawk accent: "They all say, 'Oh my gawd, my mother tawked exactly like you do.' "I get Italian women, Jewish women coming up to me," Arnold says. Tichina Arnold, who plays Chris' mom Rochelle, says people from all walks of life have complimented her on her work. Although the family in "Chris" is black, the stories the show tells have far less to do with race than they do with the struggles of awkward teenagers and working-class families. "It matters that it's funny."Īnd funny, the show's cast says, is universal. "When I get out there, it doesn't even really matter that it happened to me," Rock says.
Then again, the comedian and co-creator Ali LeRoi weren't out to make a historical document. What it's not, though, is 100 percent accurate to Rock's own Brooklyn childhood (he has more siblings, for one thing). The show, nominated for a Golden Globe for best TV comedy earlier this year, is the most-watched comedy on either network and has drawn steady critical praise. "Everybody Hates Chris" is a good bet to go on past this season, when its current network, UPN, merges with The WB to form The CW. "As it goes on, it will be less my life."
"A lot of this year is my life," Rock says. I really did eat the big piece of chicken'" - a reference to a scene in the pilot in which the 13-year-old Chris (Tyler James Williams) eats the dinner intended for his father (Terry Crews). "I was watching and going, 'Yep, that happened. As Chris Rock was watching episodes of his show "Everybody Hates Chris" Thursday night at the Museum of Television & Radio's Paley Festival, he was making note of the events in the show that really happened to him.
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