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Follow our Blog of ALL our videos and stay up to date at www.facebook.com knockoutnetworks.blogspot.com knockoutsnetwork.tumblr.com ” I had some great things and I had some bad things. … In other words, I had a life”- Richard Pryor Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (1 December 1940 — 10 December 2005) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer and MC.[18] Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities, and profanity, as well as racial epithets. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comedians of his era: Jerry Seinfeld called Pryor “The Picasso of our profession”;[19] Bob Newhart has called Pryor “the seminal comedian of the last 50 years.”.[20] This legacy can be attributed, in part, to the unusual degree of intimacy Pryor brought to bear on his comedy. As Bill Cosby reportedly once said, “Richard Pryor drew the line between comedy and tragedy as thin as one could possibly paint it.” His body of work includes the concert movies and recordings Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin’ (1971), That Nigger’s Crazy (1974), …Is It Something I Said? (1975), Bicentennial Nigger (1976), Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979), Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982), and Richard Pryor: Here and Now (1983). He also starred in numerous films as an actor, such as …