Chris Rock on President Obama: “Everybody wanted Michael Jordan, right? We got Shaq.”

If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the street. If the average person could see the Virgin Airlines first-class lounge1, they’d go, “What? What? This is food, and it’s free, and they … what? Massage? Are you kidding me?”

After the “Saturday Night Live” backlash, Rock doesn’t allow viewer comments to get to him.

They get offended by how much fun I appear to be having while saying it. You could literally take everything I said on Saturday night and say it on Meet the Press, and it would be a general debate, and it would go away. But half of it’s because they think they can hurt comedians.

The controversy in the comedy world doesn’t stop with Rock. Recently, Bill Cosby has been in the spotlight for sexual assault charges against him.

I don’t know what to say. What do you say? I hope it’s not true. That’s all you can say. I really do. I grew up on Cosby. I love Cosby, and I just hope it’s not true. It’s a weird year for comedy. We lost Robin, we lost Joan, and we kind of lost Cosby.

With the recent backlash and criticism of President Obama’s presidency, Rock still tries to find the humor.

Everybody wanted Michael Jordan, right? We got Shaq. That’s not a disappointment. You know what I mean? We got Charles Barkley. It’s still a Hall of Fame career. The president should be graded on jobs and peace, and the other stuff is debatable. Do more people have jobs, and is there more peace? I guess there’s a little more peace. Not as much peace as we’d like, but I mean, that’s kind of the gig.

Rock believes that Obama should have ” let it all just drop” when he first was elected.

Just let the country flatline. Let the auto industry die. Don’t bail anybody out. In sports, that’s what any new GM does. They make sure that the catastrophe is on the old management and then they clean up. They don’t try to save old management’s mistakes. Maybe Obama should have let the plane crash. You get credit for bringing somebody back from the dead. You don’t really get credit for helping a sick person by administering antibiotics.

With the tragic events that took place in Ferguson, Rock believes that after Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., the black leaders in America have been substitute teachers in the fight in racism and equality.

I mean, you got to realize, there’s not a need for it the way there was. Back then, we needed that guy for our day-to-day existence. Now you only feel the need in special cases. So, okay, Ferguson goes down. You’re like, “Oh, it’d be great if we had a guy.”

Turning 50 next year, Rock is asked if he feels as if he can never be as edgy.

I probably can’t, but it’s okay. I didn’t recall a lack of edge in George Carlin. Joan didn’t seem to have calmed down at all. I don’t think they were thinking about edge. I think they were just thinking about, How am I going to be funny? It’s funny first.

–ChelseaBLately