R.I.P. Richard Pryor
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R.I.P. Richard Pryor
When Ch4 started I remember watching his stand up show in the middle of the night and just about pissing the bed.
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Re: R.I.P. Richard Pryor
Originally Posted by Cam
When Ch4 started I remember watching his stand up show in the middle of the night and just about pissing the bed.
He was in Superman wasn't he?
10-12-2005, 10:20 PM
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Re: R.I.P. Richard Pryor
Originally Posted by Rich_w
Originally Posted by Cam
When Ch4 started I remember watching his stand up show in the middle of the night and just about pissing the bed.
He was in Superman wasn't he?
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10-12-2005, 10:48 PM
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stir crazy 
lots of other films funny as fuck
Comedian Richard Pryor dead at 65
Nothing was off limits for Richard Pryor
Groundbreaking black US comedian Richard Pryor has died after almost 20 years with multiple sclerosis.
He died at the age of 65 of a heart attack at Encino hospital near Los Angeles, his wife Jennifer Pryor said.
A series of hit comedies in the 1970s and 1980s - including Stir Crazy and Silver Streak - helped make him one of Hollywood's highest-paid stars.
He blazed a trail for black performers, earning enough clout to negotiate his own deals in Hollywood.
A five-year contract with Columbia Pictures in 1983 earned him $40m (Ł23m).
Foul-mouthed
But he first came to prominence as a pioneering stand-up comic.
His uncompromising, foul-mouthed brand of humour focused on his personal insights into modern life and race relations.
"I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that," he said.
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He could make you laugh so hard that it hurt
James, Warrenton
In quotes: Richard Pryor
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His comedy influenced black artists such as Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall and Damon Wayans, as well as Robin Williams, David Letterman and others.
His health also became material for his stand-up routines.
In 1992 he asked an audience: "Is there a doctor in the audience?"
Finally, when a hand went up, he said: "Doctor, I need to know one thing. What the [expletive deleted] is MS?"
The condition he wanted described is a degenerative disease of the nervous system.
In 1995, he played an embittered multiple sclerosis patient in an episode of TV series Chicago Hope. The role earned him an Emmy nomination as best guest actor in a drama series.
'I got greedy'
He also became addicted to drugs and alcohol.
He once suffered serious burns when he set himself on fire while freebasing cocaine - dissolving it over a flame and inhaling the fumes.
He later joked that igniting yourself "sobers you up pretty fast".
He admitted that some of his later films were weaker than his earlier ones.
"I didn't think Brewster's Millions [1985] was good to begin with," he said. "I'm sorry, but they offered us the money. I was a pig, I got greedy."
He followed that film with the autobiographical work Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is calling, which he also directed and co-wrote.
His wife Jennifer said he was not in pain when he died.
"He did not suffer, he went quickly and at the end there was a smile on his face," she said.
"I'm honoured now that I have an opportunity to protect and continue his legacy because he's a very, very, very amazing man and he opened doors to so many people."
lots of other films funny as fuck Comedian Richard Pryor dead at 65
Nothing was off limits for Richard Pryor
Groundbreaking black US comedian Richard Pryor has died after almost 20 years with multiple sclerosis.
He died at the age of 65 of a heart attack at Encino hospital near Los Angeles, his wife Jennifer Pryor said.
A series of hit comedies in the 1970s and 1980s - including Stir Crazy and Silver Streak - helped make him one of Hollywood's highest-paid stars.
He blazed a trail for black performers, earning enough clout to negotiate his own deals in Hollywood.
A five-year contract with Columbia Pictures in 1983 earned him $40m (Ł23m).
Foul-mouthed
But he first came to prominence as a pioneering stand-up comic.
His uncompromising, foul-mouthed brand of humour focused on his personal insights into modern life and race relations.
"I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that," he said.
HAVE YOUR SAY
He could make you laugh so hard that it hurt
James, Warrenton
In quotes: Richard Pryor
Send us your tributes
His comedy influenced black artists such as Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall and Damon Wayans, as well as Robin Williams, David Letterman and others.
His health also became material for his stand-up routines.
In 1992 he asked an audience: "Is there a doctor in the audience?"
Finally, when a hand went up, he said: "Doctor, I need to know one thing. What the [expletive deleted] is MS?"
The condition he wanted described is a degenerative disease of the nervous system.
In 1995, he played an embittered multiple sclerosis patient in an episode of TV series Chicago Hope. The role earned him an Emmy nomination as best guest actor in a drama series.
'I got greedy'
He also became addicted to drugs and alcohol.
He once suffered serious burns when he set himself on fire while freebasing cocaine - dissolving it over a flame and inhaling the fumes.
He later joked that igniting yourself "sobers you up pretty fast".
He admitted that some of his later films were weaker than his earlier ones.
"I didn't think Brewster's Millions [1985] was good to begin with," he said. "I'm sorry, but they offered us the money. I was a pig, I got greedy."
He followed that film with the autobiographical work Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is calling, which he also directed and co-wrote.
His wife Jennifer said he was not in pain when he died.
"He did not suffer, he went quickly and at the end there was a smile on his face," she said.
"I'm honoured now that I have an opportunity to protect and continue his legacy because he's a very, very, very amazing man and he opened doors to so many people."
11-12-2005, 01:47 AM
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo....................... ... 
One of my all time favourite comedians.........
Anyone else noticed how all the older generation of people they grew up watching/respecting are starting to pass away slowly................
One of my all time favourite comedians.........
Anyone else noticed how all the older generation of people they grew up watching/respecting are starting to pass away slowly................
11-12-2005, 04:27 AM
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Funniest cat ever, his comedy was timeless. 
Some of my favorites... Silver Streak, Greased Lighting, Brewster's Millions, Stir Crazy and list goes on.
http://www.optonline.net/News/Articl...cle%3D16648187
Some of my favorites... Silver Streak, Greased Lighting, Brewster's Millions, Stir Crazy and list goes on.
http://www.optonline.net/News/Articl...cle%3D16648187
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I remember him best for him playing Wallace Keru in See No Evil Hear No Evil had me in stitches the whole way through with one of the best lines i can remember out of any film 
RIP
RIP
11-12-2005, 08:51 AM
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a awesome comedian!!!!
Harlem Nights ia 1 of my favourite films ever!!!!!
the world "legend" gets thrown about these days..But what he has done for comedy,he DEFFINATLEY falls into that bracket!!!
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