R.I.P Richard Pryer
12-12-2005, 04:12 PM
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Re: R.I.P Richard Pryer
Originally Posted by d16y7nh
" I have friends that have been doing coke for 20 years and there not addicted" if anyone has the chance to listen to his box set do it. you have no idea how many comics have ripped him off.
A classic of the 80's. 
Not really
12-12-2005, 04:51 PM
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Re: R.I.P Richard Pryer
Originally Posted by DA-MAX
agreed, he was definently one of the greats...tons of comics have built there whole styles around him pretty much, RIP
12-12-2005, 05:22 PM
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Re: R.I.P Richard Pryer
---- him, he was a stupid racist 'white man's holding me down' ------.
Throughout his career, Pryor focused on racial inequality, once joking as the host of the Academy Awards in 1977 that Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier were the only black members of the Academy.
Pryor once marveled "that 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."
Pryor once marveled "that 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."
But he battled drug and alcohol addictions for years, most notably when he suffered severe burns over 50 percent of his body while freebasing at his home. An admitted "junkie" at the time, Pryor spent six weeks recovering from the burns and much longer from his addictions.
Smoking cocaine in 1980, Pryor set himself on fire and almost died. He put it in a movie. It was only years later that he admitted he'd been trying to kill himself, reports Whitaker.
