[Blarg]

Rolling Stone did a poll of a huge number of top comedians in something like the late 80s or early 90's on who they thought was the best comedian out there, and all but maybe one or two said Richard Pryor. I agree. The guy was unbelievable, and I don't think I ever met anyone who didn't think so.

It's sad he had such a hard life after such great beginnings and such a short good run. He was the kind of talent where you can seriously say you were lucky to have him. He has been effectively gone for ages, but now that it's official, I'm just glad we had him around for a while. Wish we would have gotten more, but what luck that we got what we did. I'll always in some way hold other comedians up to his standard, rightly or wrongly.