Reality Roll Call

Ask anyone in the African-American community and they will tell you that nothing is funnier than the wacky hi-jinks that result when you mix an innocent black man and the police. And any man will attest to hilarity of being falsely accused of statutory rape. And of course, we’ve all heard the side-splitting stories of what can go wrong when Americans are arrested for serious crimes overseas. So, when comedian Chris Rock was arrested while on tour in South Africa for having sex with a British minor, as part as a prank for a U.S. reality show, I’m sure he laughed till he peed his pants. Minus the laughing.

The unnamed show went all out for this asinine prank; hiring an actor to play a fake prosecutor who appeared in court to demand that Rock be prosecuted and jailed. Fortunately, the court did not go along with the “joke”. Rock caught wind of his impending legal troubles and immediately hired lawyers to investigate the charges. I’m still wondering when it was going to get funny.