Comments on: Richard Pryor: vulnerability and bravado

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

He did a heartbreaking piece on television, playing a drunk, lost man who’d once been somebody, stumbling around in a bar, beaten down by life. There was a black woman, possibly the woman who played opposite John Amos in the series, who lamented what he’d been and what he now was.
Terrible, because it was so close to life.
Beautifully done.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Sorry to disagree but Pryor was what I define as a “funny racist.” Yes, he was funny but he was a racist. If a white comedian built his career on disparaging blacks in the same way Pryor did about whites — he would be burned at the stake of Political Correctness. But that is the topsy-turvey PC world in which we live.

By: Goesh

Goesh — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

My favorite was Stir Crazy with Gene Wilder.

By: Cathy Young

Cathy Young — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Beautiful post, neo. Thanks.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

RIP Richard Pryor !!