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Richard Pryor

Stand-up comedian

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Actor

"When you ain’t got no money, you gotta get an attitude."

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Born in the 1940s

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SNL host

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Running down the street on fire

In 1980, he poured 151-proof rum all over himself and lit himself on fire while freebasing cocaine. While ablaze, he ran down Parthenia Street from his Los Angeles home, until being subdued by police. He would be treated for second and third-degree...

Army days

Pryor served in the U.S. Army from 1958 to 1960, but spent virtually the entire stint in an army prison. According to a 1999 profile about Pryor in The New Yorker, Pryor was incarcerated for an incident that occurred while he was stationed in West Ge...

Sexuality

In his autobiography Pryor Convictions, Pryor admitted to having a two-week sexual relationship with a transvestite, which he called "two weeks of being gay." There are also other accounts which say that Pryor was open about his bisexuality with his...

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First joke

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I wasn’t much taller than my daddy’s shin when I found I could break people up. A little dog wandered by and poo-pooed in our yard. I got up, ran to my grandmother, and slipped in the dog poop. It made Mama and the rest laugh. I was really onto something then. So I did it a second time. “Look at that boy! He’s crazy!” That was my first joke. All in poop. And I been covered in it ever since.

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The need to express what's in your head

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The need to express what's in your head

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There was a world of junkies and winos, pool hustlers and prostitutes, women and family screaming inside my head, trying to be heard. The longer I kept them bottled up, the harder they tried to escape.

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Being funny and drugs

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Being funny and drugs

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The drugs didn’t make me funny. God made me funny. The drugs kept me up in my imagination. But I felt ... pathetic afterward. Drugs messed me up.

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