Richard Pryor: The Greatest Comic Ever ...
has passed. Rest In Peace.
As kids, we passed around Richard Pryor tapes like contraband. Tapes with no markings were passed from house-to-house, kid-to-kid. We'd listen to them quietly in our bedrooms trying not to laugh too loud so as not to be found out by our parents.
Away from adults, we would gather at the ends of driveways or at the fields and courts where we played sports and listen to them over and over on the box one of our friends would bring.
We would laugh until tears were streaming down our faces. We know the skits by heart. All our humor was jacked from Richard Pryor. We were cheap imitators but wouldn't have it any other way.
His humor ran deep. He was pained and haunted. We all felt it. But we knew - with a little humor - we could always rise above our demons.
Thank you, Richard Pryor. You were an unorthodox teacher to a generation of youth. We learned as much about humanity from you as any other and you will be missed.
posted by Macswain at
3:29 PM
2 Comments:
Macswain:
Your right. He's one of a kind.
Prior's ascent occurred before our great political divide, where every on-the-edge-comment is skewered by either the right or left, depending on which takes more offense.
It'll be decades before we see another Prior.
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Anonymous, at 1:53 PM
The baboon tells us the score is 30-2--the U.S. beats Iraq. Rolly
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