44. Rock was nominated for an Emmy for direction for 2015's Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo, his first time directing another comic's stand-up special.
45. Rock was tasked with hosting the 2016 Oscars after the first time #OscarsSoWhite went viral and some stars, such as Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee, said they wouldn't be attending in protest of the lack of diversity among that year's nominees.
"I'm here at the Academy Awards, otherwise known as the White People's Choice Awards," he opened the show, and then proceeded to keep the flame turned up high. "If they nominated host," he continued, "I wouldn't even get this job! You'd all be watching Neil Patrick Harris right now."
46. Rock is a longtime fan of Barack Obama (here meeting him at the Apollo Theater in 2007) and ended up on the VIP guest list for the president and first lady's celeb-packed going-away party at the White House in 2016.
"It's like I died and went to black heaven," Rock told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show in May 2017. "There were a couple of white people...there's a lot more now, I'll tell you that. A lot more now."
47. He supported Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, but he had his concerns. "I mean, I would love to see Hillary, but there's a part of Hillary that's like the Democratic McCain at this point," Rock, who had some of the most nuanced things to say about Obama's presidency and race relations in the U.S. that you could ever hope to hear, told Vulture in 2014. "As [McCain] showed, 'It's my time' is not really enough. But you know, I'm absolutely ready for a woman president. I'm ready for a woman nighttime-talk-show host, to tell you the truth. I wonder which will be first."
48. Rock also told Vulture in 2014 that he had stopped playing college campuses because the audiences had become too "conservative" (Jerry Seinfeld has said as much, meaning too politically correct). Asked what he meant, Rock said, "Not in their political views—not like they're voting Republican—but in their social views and their willingness not to offend anybody. Kids raised on a culture of 'We're not going to keep score in the game because we don't want anybody to lose.' Or just ignoring race to a fault. You can't say 'the black kid over there.' No, it's 'the guy with the red shoes.' You can't even be offensive on your way to being inoffensive."
49. Rock started dating actress Megalyn Echikunwoke in 2016.
50. In his first stand-up special in 10 years and first ever for Netflix, 2018's Chris Rock: Tamborine, he got real about the fallout from being unfaithful to his wife.
"It's f--ked up," he explained. "When guys cheat, it's like we want something new. But then you know what happens? Your woman finds out, and now she's new. She is never the same again. So, now you have new, but you have a bad new."
51. Rock's No. 1 job is being a dad to his two daughters. "You don't know how good you can be at anything until you have kids," he told Best Life in 2007. "My single friends, the three or four I have, they're always like, 'I don't have enough money.' I'm like, ‘Hey, have some kids, you'll make money.' There is something about kids that makes you make it happen. You're like [I Love] Lucy. You've got a new scheme every day. There is no relaxing when you have kids."
52. "My daughter Zahra has asthma and spent a night in the hospital," he recalled to Best Life. "I had no idea I could be scared like that. I was always one to just go, 'Ah, I'm not dying for anything!' Until you have a kid you would give your life for, you have no idea that all of this is in you. You look at your kids, and they are getting smarter and they're getting cuter and they are giving back, and you just see where all of your time and your love is going."
53. Rock will play a crime boss in the long-awaited fourth season of Fargo on FX.
"I was shocked," Rock said during the TCA press tour in January about how he felt when Fargo creator Noah Hawley reached out to him. "I did not think in my wildest dreams it was to be on the show. I was pleasantly surprised."
54. And on May 15, he's a detective on the big screen in a reboot of the Saw franchise called Spiral, along with Samuel L. Jackson and Max Minghella. Rock is credited as a writer and executive producer as well.
55. "I'm not the funniest person I know," Rock told the New Yorker in 2014. "I'm not the tenth-funniest person I know. I wasn't the funniest guy on my block. I wasn't the funniest guy in the clubs." But he knows he puts in the work.