RIP Richard Pryor
RIP Richard Pryor
CNN is reporting that Richard Pryor has died at the age of 65.
Definitely one of the most talented comedians of all time, up there with Lenny Bruce, et al
Definitely one of the most talented comedians of all time, up there with Lenny Bruce, et al
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For me he was the greatest. No one comes close. His best work had a rawness, a humanity and just the deepest sadness that usually can only be found in the greatest novels.
On a personal note, there was a time when I loved Richard Pryor more than I will ever love any artist. When I was seventeen, I wanted to *be* Richard Pryor. It went beyond performing his routines at theatre conferences (I would makeup plays and authors so I wouldn't get disqualified), watching his standup films all the time, listening to his albums all the time......I wanted the whole tortured artist package and didn't really get over that idolatry and sense of "If I keep hurting myself and everyone who ever loved me, I'll be Richard" until my early twenties. His death fucking hurts me.
Whar, I've generally been pretty nice to you but that can all stop right now if you'd like. Please don't pull your schtick on this thread because it makes me very, very angry and I don't want to see it here. If you don't delete your post or change it to something that doesn't piss me off, I will personally pester Doc and Spooky about banning you from this board permanently until they do so just to get me off their backs. Do you understand me?
On a personal note, there was a time when I loved Richard Pryor more than I will ever love any artist. When I was seventeen, I wanted to *be* Richard Pryor. It went beyond performing his routines at theatre conferences (I would makeup plays and authors so I wouldn't get disqualified), watching his standup films all the time, listening to his albums all the time......I wanted the whole tortured artist package and didn't really get over that idolatry and sense of "If I keep hurting myself and everyone who ever loved me, I'll be Richard" until my early twenties. His death fucking hurts me.
Whar, I've generally been pretty nice to you but that can all stop right now if you'd like. Please don't pull your schtick on this thread because it makes me very, very angry and I don't want to see it here. If you don't delete your post or change it to something that doesn't piss me off, I will personally pester Doc and Spooky about banning you from this board permanently until they do so just to get me off their backs. Do you understand me?
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Atleast you warned me first.El Vez wrote:Whar, I've generally been pretty nice to you but that can all stop right now if you'd like. Please don't pull your schtick on this thread because it makes me very, very angry and I don't want to see it here. If you don't delete your post or change it to something that doesn't piss me off, I will personally pester Doc and Spooky about banning you from this board permanently until they do so just to get me off their backs. Do you understand me?
You're not going to change my opinion with threats. I'm sorry if it hurts you.
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No doubt about it, Richard Pryor was one of the most important artists of our time. Like lots of people, I learned a little something about life from him while laughing myself silly at a vulnerable age. He helped open a genaration's mind and I can't think of any higher compliment for an artist.
Art is not a competition where there is a declared winner, nor is any particular person's preference for one artist over another of any significance whatsoever. And the day someone dies has got to be least appropriate time for bringing that kind of thing up. When Doestoyevsky died, did all the Tolstoy fans show up at the funeral to say that "Anna Karenina" is a more emotionally satisfying work than "Crime and Punishment"? And if they had, should anyone have given a damn?
Cultivate some consideration for others, WHAR, please.
Art is not a competition where there is a declared winner, nor is any particular person's preference for one artist over another of any significance whatsoever. And the day someone dies has got to be least appropriate time for bringing that kind of thing up. When Doestoyevsky died, did all the Tolstoy fans show up at the funeral to say that "Anna Karenina" is a more emotionally satisfying work than "Crime and Punishment"? And if they had, should anyone have given a damn?
Cultivate some consideration for others, WHAR, please.
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I think a lot of kids had this experience: digging around in my dad's record collection, and finding Pryor's albums. Putting them on the turntable and playing them as quietly as possible, then getting caught and yelled at for listening to "such dirty mess". Being sent to my room...and being able to hear the rest of the album because Dad couldn't stop laughing and just had to hear the rest of it.
The man was a giant. Not only did he make the harsh reality of the American black experience easier to understand for everyone (hell, even black folks), he also made it easier for a lot of black entertainers to branch out. He was--and still is--the funniest motherfucker on the planet.
The man was a giant. Not only did he make the harsh reality of the American black experience easier to understand for everyone (hell, even black folks), he also made it easier for a lot of black entertainers to branch out. He was--and still is--the funniest motherfucker on the planet.
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My exposure to Richard Pyror was completely mainstream - through his movies Brewster's Millions and See No Evil, Hear No Evil - but I couldn't get enough of those movies as a kid. It was weird to hear about Pryor's tortured life after that, but I will always remember laughing my ass off at those movies.
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