Julius' cheapness is also exhibited by how he uses duct tape to fix anything and everything broken in the house. He is known for his extreme cheapness and taking the easy way out when it comes to purchasing essential items for his family (such as by using food-stamps and buying store-brands). Julius (played by Terry Crews), based on Chris Rock's father, is Rochelle's cheap, frugal, worrisome, levelheaded, and devoted husband and the father of Chris, Tonya, and Drew. Newspaper delivery man, security guard, cab driver, fish packager He later grows up to be a rich and famous comedian.
At the end of the series – after being told that he has to repeat the tenth grade for constantly being late for school – he drops out and gets his GED, though his narrator dropped out due to bullying. As he gets older, Chris becomes interested in stand-up comedy and begins telling jokes in school. One of his talents is playing Asteroids and the other is calling basketball games. His luck does improve as the series progresses. People just seem to hate him for inexplicable reasons. Next to all this, Chris is always the butt of the last jokes on each show. As the eldest child, he is often put in charge of his younger siblings, but they usually disobey him and he usually has to take the blame for them. Chris is bullied and beat up at school (with little protection obtained from teachers or faculty members), tortured by his sister, shown up by his brother, victimized by the racist teaching staff, rejected by girls (most of whom prefer Drew), slandered by his neighbors, ignored by his schoolmates, robbed by neighborhood thugs, is underpaid at work, and receives tough love from his mother and distressing treatment from his father.
He tries hard to fit in with his peers but often finds himself a victim of circumstance. Regardless of whether Chris possesses any positive traits, he's certainly never treated as if he does (being disliked by the opposite race, unlike his siblings). He wishes he was more like his younger brother, Drew. Grocery store clerk, football team manager, studentĬhris (played by Tyler James Williams), is the ambitious, normal, responsible, intelligent, and kind-hearted, but troubled, unlucky, unpopular, untalented, nonathletic, underachieving, hapless, awkward, nerdy, vulnerable and mischievous eldest child and protagonist with anxiety disorder of the series. Little Dude from Across the Street, Chrissy The Black, DJ Chrissy Chris, Juicy Fruit, Mr.