Pictured is comedian and actor Chris Rockclevelandurbannews.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Comedian and actor Chris Rock is bringing his “Ego Death” world tour to Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland for a performance on June 16 at the Connor Palace. Rock's upcoming show follows comedian and actor Dave Chapelle, who performed in Cleveland in Feb 19, the weekend of the NBA All-Star Game that Cleveland hosted.
Tickets to the show will go on sale on Friday, Feb. 25 on Ticketmaster’s website.
A three-time Grammy winner and four-time Emmy winner, Rock, 57, has not toured in nearly five years. Rock came to prominence as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s. He went on to more prominent film appearances, with starring roles in Down to Earth (2001), Head of State (2003), The Longest Yard (2005), the Madagascar film series (2005–2012), Grown Ups (2010), its sequel Grown Ups 2 (2013), Top Five (2014), and a series of acclaimed stand-up specials for HBO. He developed, wrote, and narrated the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris (2005–2009), which was based on his early life. In 2020, he starred in the fourth season of the FX black comedy–crime drama anthology series Fargo.
Rock hosted the Academy Awards twice, in 2005 and in 2016. He has won four Emmy Awards and three Grammy Awards. He was voted the fifth-greatest stand-up comedian in a poll conducted by Comedy Central. He was also voted in the United Kingdom as the ninth-greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups in 2007, and again in the updated 2010 list as the eighth-greatest stand-up comic.
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