Everybody Hates Chris

The show based on the childhood of comedian Chris Rock deals with racial issues, but the agonies of childhood are universal | Gene Edward Veith

Adults often romanticize childhood as a time of carefree innocence. This is because they forget what it was like. Real children have problems, fears, and vices. The best TV shows about children—from Our Gang to Leave It To Beaver—center on their miseries and mistakes, which can indeed be very funny.

Everybody Hates Chris (Thursdays 8:00 p.m. ET, UPN) is in this company. Based on the childhood of comedian Chris Rock, who is the voice-over narrator, the show is about the trials and tribulations of 13-year-old Chris, growing up in Brooklyn in 1982.

His father works multiple jobs and scrimps every penny so that his family can move out of the projects into a better neighborhood and send his kids to a good school. That means Chris has to deal with the unpleasantness of being one of the few black kids in a mostly Italian school. His mother is a strict disciplinarian, which also causes Chris woe.

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