Chris Rock Signs With WME For Representation

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Comedian Chris Rock has signed with WME for representation in all areas including acting, directing, comedy touring, books, and more.

Rock had been in play since December when his longtime agent Eddy Yablans was impacted by the CAA layoffs. (Yablans subsequently joined management company LBI Entertainment as a partner.) Rock had been with Yablans for 30 years, at ICM and then at CAA, a tenure that included the record-setting at the time $40-million deal with Netflix in 2016 for two standup specials.

Rock’s 2023 Netflix special Selective Outrage also made history as the platform’s first-ever global live-streamed event. He has won four Emmy Awards — for The Chris Rock Show, Kill the Messenger, and two for Bring the Pain — as well as three Grammy Awards for Roll with the New, Bigger & Blacker, and Never Scared..

Rock is set to direct and star in the feature Misty Green, based on an original script he wrote. He also is attached to helm the U.S.