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Chris Rock took the main stage at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. Friday night and worked a "room" that may have included as many as 80,000 fans - his largest crowd yet.
According to the Associated Press, Rock had the audience "hanging on his every punch line." They even laughed when he mock-chastised the traditionally hippy festival-goers for taking what he called "performance enhancing drugs."
"You all should be ashamed of yourselves for taking an antidepressant to see a comedian," said Rock. "I am an antidepressant!"
The comic also had plenty of material about Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, whom he supports. Rock said he was impressed by Obama's unmistakable blackness, joking that his name makes him sound like "the bass player for the Commodores."
Though Rock thinks America is "ready" for a black president, he doesn't think it's ready for a black first lady. When the crowd oohed, Rock insisted, "Yeah, I said it. At Bonnaroo I said it." His reason? Rock believes a black woman could never be in the background of a relationship, and that Obama would have been better off marrying a white woman: "Look what it did for Tiger Woods," he said.
One of Rock's best bits came while discussing rising gas prices despite the war in Iraq, which some predicted would help keep oil under control. "Let me tell you something," said Rock. "If I invade IHOP, pancakes are going to be cheaper in my house."
