Richard Pryor: Difference between revisions

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* [[Creator Breakdown]]: Not only Pryor's excessive drug abuse, but also his freebasing accident that daughter Rain believed was really a suicide attempt.

* [[Gallows Humor]]: Pretty much his whole act after a while.

* [[Man On Fire]]: He lit himself on fire inadvertently when he was freebasing. He was reported to run a route described as "being a long distance ''in a car''".

* [[Man on Fire (trope)|Man on Fire]]: He lit himself on fire inadvertently when he was freebasing. He was reported to run a route described as "being a long distance ''in a car''".

{{quote|"When you're on fire and running down the street, people will get out of your way. Except for one old drunk, going, ''(pantomiming holding a cigarette)'' 'Hey, buddy? Can I get a light?'"}}

* [[Never Heard That One Before]]: He was aware of the jokes people were making about his [[Man On Fire]] incident He even points one of them out the first time he talked about it.

* [[Never Heard That One Before]]: He was aware of the jokes people were making about his [[Man on Fire (trope)|Man on Fire]] incident. He even points one of them out the first time he talked about it.

{{quote|"'Do you know what this is?' ''(lights a match)'' 'It's Richard Pryor, running down the street.'"}}

* [[N-Word Privileges]]: He originally used it, even releasing albums called "That Nigger's Crazy" and "Bicentennial Nigger". Averted following a visit to Africa, where he resolved to stop using the word in his routine. (His love of the word "motherfucker", however, remained undiminished.)

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* [[Sesame Street Cred]]: Doing the alphabet back in 1976 in this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJh_EUrEAZg

* [[Talking Animal]]: Usually dogs.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Pryor was ~~orginally~~ slated to play Bart in [[Blazing Saddles]].

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Pryor was originally slated to play Bart in [[Blazing Saddles]].

** Brooks also wanted him to play "Josephus" in ''[[History of the World Part One]]'' but Pryor was injured from the freebasing incident before production. He was replaced by Gregory Hines.

* [[White Dude, Black Dude]]: The original. Accept no ~~subsitutes~~.

* [[White Dude, Black Dude]]: The original. Accept no substitutes.

* [[Wisdom from the Gutter]]: Subverted in the aforementioned "Wino & Junkie" bit.

{{quote|"I'm gonna help you, boy. 'Cause I believe you got potential. You know what your problem is? You don't know how to deal with the white man! You got a white-man complex. I know how to deal with him. That's why I'm in the position I'm in today."}}

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