Richard Pryor Gone

I always enjoyed Richard Pryor. He had a level of honesty and lack of bullshit that I loved. The stuff of his I remember the most from my childhood was him and Gene Wilder in a couple of movies. Those two were hilarious together! I didn't get to see much of his stand up stuff.

The Washington Post notes that he was the ". . .first person to receive the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American humor" in 1998.



This was kind of interesting from the Observer:

". . .combined the profanity of Lenny Bruce with the perfect timing of old Vaudeville."

The Observer | International | Richard Pryor, comic voice of black America, dies