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fuzzyjon79
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 Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:51 pm Post subject: RIP Richard Pryor |
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The world has lost a very funny man. RIP Richard Pryor. 
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:59 pm Post subject: Re: RIP Richard Pryor |
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| fuzzyjon79 wrote: | | The world has lost a very funny man. RIP Richard Pryor. |
One of the most talented comedians of our times, and unfortunately this comes at a time when the world needs a few more laughs.
RIP Richard and thanks so much for the laughs and for so many great memories. Continue to make them laugh after you pass through those Pearly Gates.
This is for you man!
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Mikeytrpt
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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I remember him and Gene Wilder in "Silver Streak."
D*mn, he made me laugh!
RIP, Richard.
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plp
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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What a great talent, right up there with George Carlin in observational humor.
For those college parties, could put one of his 8 tracks in and just let it loop all night. The jokes were funnier the 25th time than they were the first. |
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Ben17
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| He was hilarious. I'm pretty young so he is clearly before my time, but I have heard hours of his acts and he was pure genius. Too bad drugs and health issues ended an incredible life. |
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matzentrpt
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This is so sad, I had just bought his anthology a few weeks ago. I cried laughing when I heard his "exorcist" routine.
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Dr. Stu
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His Exorcist sketch on Saturday Night Live is one of the all time funniest sketches. "... the bed...is on...my foot..."
I know he had M.S., but the drug addiction really decimated his career decades before the disease did. Quite a shame. Always pushing the envelope in talking about drugs & race, his early albums are filled with now absolutely classic routines many of which, because political times have changed so dramatically, really would probably have a tough time getting onto records now. (Do you think they would give Grammy Awards to albums called "Bicentennial ******", or "That ******'s Crazy" today?)
Kind of a cross between Lenny Bruce, Bill Cosby, and George Carlin, and maybe Redd Foxx, all rolled into one. He was just hitting it big in like '74 when I was in junior high and my friends & I all loved his records (but our parents didn't want us listening to him because he was too "dirty", so, naturally we listened to them so much we pretty-much memorized them.) To this day I can do entire bits off of many of his albums (& Bill Cosby's, George Carlin's, Robert Kleins, Steve Martin's , and Cheech & Chong's too for that matter).
Farewell to a comedy legend .
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