But actually, Rock says, the fact that Wellington is white provides only a small portion of the humor. Rock comments, referring to a scene where Wellington sings along to a popular hip-hop tune while stopped in a car at a red light. It's funny, because it's much easier for black comics to make jokes about white people than it is for white comics to make jokes about black people. Black people don't take it as well. Humor is helping people understand each other, King continues.
Laughter is an incredible, thrilling thing.
Appearance is Everything She does admit, however, that it was tricky to handle the fact that her character in Down to Earth does actually end up falling for an old white man. The film handles this by mostly showing Rock in the character, then occasionally showing Wellington's true aged self. Luckily for King, Rock was there for scenes requiring lip-lock. But Rock doesn't exactly consider himself a perfect male specimen either. He has said that if he were better-looking, he probably wouldn't be as good a comedian as he is.