you said to me yesterday no one ever
has put rosa parks and twerking
in the same conversation to make a point
and and you did it yesterday and i have
to say
i was proud of that you did it quite
successfully but you had a glaring
omission
that i figured out this morning and
because you had the omission i had the
omission too
you could have gone you should have gone
rosa and twerking and
wait for it richard pryor yesterday not
only was yesterday the celebration
and the anniversary of the montgomery
bus boycott
a great moment in american history
yeah but yesterday was also the birthday
would have been the 80th birthday
of a great american the one and only
richard pryor a great comedian
a great writer a great performer
richard and let me let me just add one
more thing
yeah i'll go all the things richard all
the things richard pryor has done
all the things he has said uh this this
the life of richard pryor
everything was cool about richard pryor
including
he once dated pam greer oh goodness
gracious
lord don't have me up here on a
wednesday talking about pam grier
okay i like i thought you would just say
something profound i mean that's
important
no you're wrong i did boxy brown is
important
but you i thought you were like oh i
just got to say this one thing i'm like
okay
yeah sure you know about to get yourself
in trouble saying that one thing
sometimes you need to cut yourself off
you know what i'm saying but no i mean
listen
i'm done you're 100 correct uh
the greatest to ever do it and i grew up
on eddie murphy
eddie murphy will tell you that richard
pryor is the greatest to ever do it
chris rock will tell you that richard
pryor is the greatest ever do it
dave chappelle will tell you that
richard pryor is the greatest
to ever do it i mean he was what we want
we've talked about this a lot especially
with people like richard pryor dave
chappelle or george carlin even
he was that person whose commentary on
america
was so on point so timeless so ahead of
its time
case may be it was piercing it was oh my
god
right netflix just put netflix just put
another of his standups
on uh on netflix they just they just uh
i was watching the other day it wasn't
live at the sunset strip
but it might have just been richard
pryor live in which patti labelle
opened for him and in the opening
credits said due to time constraints
we can't play this patty labelle concert
but thank you for being a part of this
evening it's crazy well i don't don't
don't do that don't do that don't set me
up like that i forgot i forgot
she just said i totally forgot you said
it as if that's surprising
so rest in peace rest in power to the
late great richard pryor you're looking
at somebody who's uh
whose childhood was spent watching um
because you know i grew up the grandson
of a baptist
pastor so there's only so much
cussing i was gonna be allowed that's
right you know
in my grandparents house so after hours
we would sneak and watch live from the
sunset strip
but during the day when my grandmother
when she was awake
we could watch brewster's millions we
could watch the toy
those those are the movies that i was
able to watch the team you know uh
yeah richard pryor movie yeah yeah
moving another one with richard pryor
but no yesterday was fine let's see if
we could
oh good i'm sorry it's so interesting no
i'm just gonna say it's so interesting
that you would say that
because i had that same thought before
the show i said man you know what do i
think about richard pryor
you know all my all my favorite richard
pryor moments of richard pryor bits that
are still
timely to this day if you don't believe
me look him up
it's amazing his commentary on the
united states of america
in the 1970s and 1980s
is police brutality politics
yeah it's absolutely it's it's uh it's
stunning it really
race everything it's still just as
hilarious
you know we laughed to keep from crying
but it was it was hilarious
you know but i think about those richard
pryor bits and and the thing that came
to my mind
about you know 20 minutes ago mike
straight up was
yeah i remember i used to sneak have to
sneak to listen
to richard pryor because you know my
like mom in the house i can say this now
like like the albums
talk about the albums like my mom was
like
like she wasn't she wasn't a you said
you were like the grand you're the
grandson of a baptist pastor
yeah and you know there's a lot of
challenges his daughter was my mama it's
my mama yeah right
how about pentecostal how about
apostolic so your mama didn't want to
hear nothing about
this water cold it is deep too
[Laughter]
you know jokes that's one of those
that one of those churches man were you
just in church all day
i mean for real all day going like at
nine o'clock in the morning getting out
like 3
30 and anytime i i see your night
service brother holly no you won't
no you won't no uh i got you uh
so mom was like on this whole thing mike
where she
for a while she was like well uh kids i
don't want any prints in the house
i'm like oh okay all right well when you
you got to go to work sometime
so right i don't want to hear all that
cussing
with that richard pryor he cuts too much
okay yeah we'll see you
we'll sleep to hide what man what's this
well for me it's like what's this album
come from bmg uh the chronic
parental advisory explicit content what
is it you know so
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