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What if something went wrong onstage?
What if an audience member did something disruptive?
On paper, it all seems thrilling and possibly combustible.
Which is why it is so disappointing when, in life, Chris RocksSelective Outragecannot rise to the moment.
My pronoun is broke), although it may have felt that way.
The pre- and post-shows are the most obvious disasters.
The post-show is just as bizarre.
At one point David Spade mutters, Were treading water and were starting to drown.
Its pitched like a joke, but it plays like a confession.
Yet the biggest and most frustrating misstep is the direction of the special itself.
It wouldve been a better demonstration of physical performance and his enormous, charismatic stage presence.
That kind of visual messaging is not empty.
Of course, it feels like a deflation.
Jokes about Jadas entanglement and Will Smiths movie career land in spite of Rock flubbing a film-title line.
