Pryor performs a brief stand-up segment at the insistence of the network, as he explains: “America don’t know who you are…they see black people and they get nervous.” He then talks briefly about his childhood, hillbillies, and funerals.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
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AManOfCreativity
July 3, 2012 at 6:45 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
good call. didn’t even catch that.
clicks94
July 3, 2012 at 6:52 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
at 2:30 the way he talks he reminds me of Bill Cosby
slice39
July 3, 2012 at 7:08 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
So many mainstream comics owe their careers to Pryor. Just look in the audience, I see Tim Reid, Sandra Bernhard, John Witherspoon and Robin Williams.
slice39
July 3, 2012 at 7:50 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
That’s Marlene Clark, she’s an actress who did small roles in a few movies like Midnight Cowboy. She’s probably best known as Lamont Sanford’s girlfriend in Sanford and Son. She was also married to Billy Dee Williams for a few years. Billy’s got good taste, huh? lol
KungFuJWB
July 3, 2012 at 8:42 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Mmm… the woman @3:24 is really gorgeous…. Who is she? (I know, rhetorical, but still, who is she?)
DjBobbyInLosAngeles
July 3, 2012 at 9:41 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
This is funnny?
SheaAujanel
July 3, 2012 at 10:21 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
cant get enough of Pryor!
goodymfla
July 3, 2012 at 11:11 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
j witherspoon in the audience
JayGatsbyOdysseus
July 3, 2012 at 11:19 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I thought it was interesting that no one laughed when he said he had to come out on TV so people could see him and not be afraid of a black man. This was meant to be a joke by Pryor but people were a little too uptight to laugh or didn’t get it. Richard Pryor is one of the greats.
jakeenan
July 3, 2012 at 11:44 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Funny ole world ain’t it. REEFER gets by the censor but the word ASS….no, no, no we can’t be hearing him say that. In the end, he could only get in the white-money door with his act so watered down that he was a pale shadow of himself.
whiterottenrabbit
July 3, 2012 at 11:56 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
He should have visited a Russian funeral: some women were not only crying their soul out, they were almost jumping down after the coffin or trying to hold back the men who were shoveling.
dondred
July 3, 2012 at 12:19 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
lmao, greatt ishhttt he nailed itt gooood.