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Saturday, December 10, 2005

RICHARD PRYOR: 1940 - 2005

Richard Pryor has died following a long illness. He was a smart, funny man. It's very sad. All my prayers are with his family.

From CTV:
He once marvelled "that I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that."

In 1998, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington presented Pryor with the inaugural Mark Twain Prize for humour.

"It is nice to be regarded on par with a great white man - now that's funny! Seriously, though, two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humor. I am proud that, like Mark Twain, I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred!"

1 comments:

JohnAGJ 12/10/2005 05:49:00 PM  

Dammit. Pryor was a truly funny man. God be with him.

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