Richard Pryor is dead

[Colonel Kataffy]

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He's been dead

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[IggyWH]

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He's been dead

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[img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img], I thought he died a while ago too. Oops.

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I mean, he's been as good as dead for many years now. It was a sad day many years ago when I realized he'd never do anymore standup. I mourned that day, today is more of a day of remembering.

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He's been dead

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[img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img], I thought he died a while ago too. Oops.

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Same here. Oops.

[chucksim]

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Long live Richard Pryor.

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Was just watching Brewster's Millions this afternoon. Anything with Pryor was great. RIP.

[private joker]

MS is a crappy disease. I'm glad he's out of his misery and I'll treasure his comedy recordings. The guy was genius.

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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.

[ChipWrecked]

I remember the day he was declared dead after the freebasing accident.

'Live in Concert' was the first movie I ever sneaked booze into. Six times.

Say hello to Bill, Mitch, Sam and Lenny for us, Rich.

Long Live Mudbone!!!

[IggyWH]

Wonder if Comedy Central will be on-point and put on I Ain't Dead Yet [censored] for the secret stash tonight?

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Live in Concert blew my mind. Pryor did that down home personal pain, real lived experience comedy nobody else had the balls to do. I saw that in the theater when it first came out and I was so blown away I just sat through until the next seating. No way I was going to leave the theater without seeing it again. It was practically some kind of weird religious comedy experience. A comedy revelation or something.

So many people took their cues from him, but I've never seen anyone get you so much on his side or sound like he's legitimately sharing so much of honest real life with you, no matter how degrading, and then somehow making it miraculously funny.

I'll always remember him doing his bit where he's crying and groveling on the ground during his heart attack as his heart punishes him for talking to God behind its back, and also for eating all that pork. And for magically getting me on his side after giving his take on why a guy would take a magnum to his own car when his wife was trying to leave the house. I was willing to forgive this guy anything.

Bump. Pryor was a genius the likes of which we're unlikely to see again very soon.