{"id":2448038,"date":"2019-08-27T09:31:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T15:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=877087"},"modified":"2019-08-27T09:31:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T15:31:31","slug":"flashback-chris-rock-destroys-at-the-1999-video-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/flashback-chris-rock-destroys-at-the-1999-video-music-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Chris Rock Destroys at the 1999 Video Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MTV made quite a few baffling decisions<\/a> when putting together this year\u2019s Video Music Award (the Jonas Brothers at the Stone Pony?), but it\u2019s pretty clear that the most puzzling one was the selection of Sebastian Maniscalco as the host. It seems like they wanted to bring some New Jersey attitude to the proceedings, and Maniscalco certainly has a following, but it also seemed like he didn\u2019t know a single thing about any of the performers that night and was under the assumption that jokes about his \u201cUncle Luigi\u2019s fifth wedding\u201d and his mother\u2019s zucchini would slay the room. He was wrong.<\/p>\n

For a devastating contrast, check out Chris Rock<\/a>\u2019s legendary opening monologue when he hosted the 1999 Video Music Awards. This was just three years after his legendary Bring the Pain<\/em> special, and he was still at the absolute peak of his game. \u201cWe\u2019re live here at the Metropolitan Opera,\u201d he said right after taking the stage. \u201cYou know what that means? I may be the first black man in history to be on the stage of the Met without a mop.\u201d<\/p>\n

From there he proceeded to rip into boy bands (\u201cDidn\u2019t see you see New Kids on the Block? Don\u2019t you know how this movie is going to end?\u201d), Puff Daddy (\u201cPuffy got a new album called Forever<\/em>. What you trying to say Puff? \u2018Forever\u2019<\/em>? You know if that one don\u2019t sell, the next one will be called How About Three More Months<\/em>?\u201d), The Blair Witch Project<\/em> (\u201cWhat the hell is that? I thought I was watching a wedding in the woods\u201d), and Jennifer Lopez (\u201cShe came with two limos. One for her and one for her ass.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Any random 10 seconds of this monologue was funnier than Sebastian Maniscalco\u2019s entire performance. Recent VMAs have either gone with no host or pop stars like Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus. The last comedian to host was Kevin Hart in 2012 and Chris Rock hasn\u2019t done it since 2003. It was his third time and two years later he was promoted to the Academy Awards. The 2019 VMAs will probably only be a tiny blip on the radar of Sebastian Maniscalco\u2019s career, but for MTV it probably means that 2020 will again be host-free.<\/p>\n

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MTV made quite a few baffling decisions when putting together this year\u2019s Video Music Award (the Jonas Brothers at the Stone Pony?), but it\u2019s pretty clear that the most puzzling one was the selection of Sebastian Maniscalco as the host. It seems like they wanted to bring some New Jersey attitude to the proceedings, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 20:59:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}