Chris Rock’s 2005 Oscars Monologue: 3 Jokes That Will Work Again and 1 That Won’t
Chris Rock last hosted the Academy Awards in 2005, and he’s returning this year for the 88th annual ceremony. While the country may have changed drastically in the past 11 years, pop culture remains shockingly the same. Rock’s hilarious 2005 opening monologue contains comedy gold that could easily be repurposed, with only minor tweaks and adjustments, to lampoon the 2016.
Take, for example, his riff on location-based filmmaking in movies like Barbershop, the 2002 Ice Cube vehicle that spawned the 2004 sequel Barbershop 2: Back in Business, the 2005 spinoff Beauty Shop, and a short-lived sitcom. Cube and the crew are back in the chair for 2016’s Barbershop: The Next Cut, so we suppose the old maxim holds true: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
What has changed about this year’s Oscars, compared to the 2005 ceremony, is that, for the second year in a row, only white actors, actresses, and directors have been nominated for the top awards of the night. There will be no repeat of Rock’s “Def Oscar Jam” joke in 2016, however the academy has taken action to rectify the #OscarsSoWhite controversy before next year’s awards show.
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