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	Pryor, Richard
		Richard Pryor, comic, writer, television and film star was the first African American stand-up comedian to speak candidly and successfully to integrated audiences using the language and jokes fls previously only shared among themselves when they were most critical of America.
		Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979), considered by critics one of his best concert films and his first concert released to theaters, showcased Pryor and his unique ability to capture ethnic humor and make it acceptable to a mainstream audience.
		Richard Pryor and his comic style emancipated African-American humor and his influence and ascendancy crushed boundaries and opened frontiers in comedy unheard of until he appeared on the concert stage.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/P/htmlP/pryorrichar/pryorrichar.htm (1121 words)

	CNN.com - Comedian Richard Pryor dies at 65 - Dec 10, 2005
		Richard Pryor, on stage here in 1977, was among of the biggest names in stand-up comedy in the 1970s.
		Pryor was known for his raunchy stand-up comedy and a variety of acting roles, including in "Superman III," "The Toy" and "Harlem Nights," in which he starred with his comedic predecessor, Redd Foxx, and his heir apparent, Eddie Murphy.
		Pryor was arguably the biggest name in stand-up comedy during the 1970s, earning Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.
	www.cnn.com /2005/US/12/10/pryor.obit/index.html (713 words)

	Richard-Pryor.com
		Pryor's grandmother owned a string of brothels, his mother was a prostitute, and his father was a pimp; still, they raised him to be honest, polite, and religious.
		But Pryor was frustrated that his fl pride and anger at the white power structure was being suppressed.
		Broke, Pryor went "underground" in Berkeley, California in the early 1970s; and when he re-emerged as a performer he was a road-company Cosby no more.
	www.richard-pryor.com (362 words)

	Richard Pryor - Biography - Moviefone
		Pryor's grandmother owned a string of brothels, his mother was a prostitute, and his father a pimp.
		But Pryor's popularity built momentum, and by the end of the '70s he was the highest-paid starring comedian in films, with long-range contracts ensuring him work well into the next decade.
		He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the '80s, and, by 1990, it was painfully obvious that he was a very sick man, although great effort was made by his industry friends and supporters to celebrate his accomplishments and buoy his spirits.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/richard-pryor/107177/biography (733 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Richard PryorRichard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor
		Pryor clashed with landlords and hotel clerks, was audited by the Internal Revenue Service for nonpayment of taxes between 1967 and 1970, and was sued for battery by one of his wives.
		Pryor was at the height of his form as a live comedian by the late 1980s.
		Pryor's ill health did not detract from the body of work he left behind--a half dozen million-selling albums, two classic concert videos, several creditable dramatic performances, and--of course--the daring live routines with their uncensored social and psychological commentary.
	www.gale.com /free_resources/bhm/bio/pryor_r.htm (2938 words)

	AlterNet: Losing Richard Pryor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Richard Pryor was an equal-opportunity audience baiter who paved the way for today's biggest comedians by putting race relations at the center of his art.
		Pryor was hardly the first fl funnyman or woman to chide, cajole, and poke fun at America's racial sensibilities from the stage.
		Pryor will be justly lauded for his work: more than 40 movies and 20 albums, his much-abbreviated TV show, his Emmy and Grammys, including his signature, That Nigger's Crazy, as well as for smashing racial barriers for fl comics and artists.
	www.alternet.org /story/29458 (1445 words)

	Richard Pryor Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pryor's appearances on Saturday Night Live had been numeric gold for the network as well, so NBC programmers pondered the unthinkable—giving the most militant and sexually-suggestive comedian of the decade his own weekly television series.
		Pryor was unnerved to find out, after signing his lucrative contract with the network, that he wouldn't be given free rein to do whatever he wanted.
		NBC and Richard Pryor announced that the remainder of the contract would be made up of six specials to be broadcast over the next three years.
	www.tvparty.com /pryor.html (1131 words)

	Richard Pryor: A Who2 Profile (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Richard Pryor's maverick and influential stand-up comedy and movie career took a disastrous turn in 1980, when he set himself on fire while preparing to freebase cocaine.
		Pryor began writing and performing comedy in the late '60s, appearing in clubs and on television.
		Pryor also appeared in dramatic roles in movies, including in Lady Sings the Blues (1972, starring Diana Ross) and Blue Collar (1978), all the while releasing hit comedy records (That Nigger is Crazy and Bicentennial Nigger) and successful concert films (1979's Richard Pryor: Live in Concert).
	www.who2.com.cob-web.org:8888 /richardpryor.html (371 words)

	PopMatters Film Feature \| A Nigger Un-Reconstructed: The Legacy of Richard Pryor
		Pryor was a product of another era, but it was in the midst of that era that he redefined how America confronted the issue of race (and fl masculinity), thereby paving the way for mainstream acceptance of hip-hop's own irreverence and provocative nature.
		Pryor's social commentary allowed him to assuage the pain of his upbringing in Peoria and when that avenue was no longer available to him he chose the rewards of mainstream success.
		Pryor's salary for the film was unprecedented for a fl actor and highlighted the value that Hollywood placed on his cross-over power.
	www.popmatters.com /film/features/051215-richardpryor.shtml (2382 words)

	An Authentic Life: Richard Pryor’s Official Biography
		Whittaker was so impressed by Richard's comic ability that she arranged talent shows to showcase him and continued to influence him throughout his career.
		But Pryor is best known and loved for his live comedy where he presents the truth as he sees it in a hyperkinetic, expletive-laced, free-form style.
		Richard Pryor may be sidelined by MS, but he is so adamantly opposed to the use of animals in researching even his disease that he used his Christmas card to discourage donations to charities that still fund such tests.
	www.richardpryor.com /history.cfm (2470 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Fellow comics mourn Richard Pryor
		Pryor is credited with breaking trail for a whole generation of comedians, including Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, David Letterman, Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock.
		Pryor often focused on race relations in his standup routines, which he peppered with profanities.
		Pryor, who battled drug and alcohol addiction for years, often took the tragic events in his life and made them a part of his concert movies and recordings.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2005/12/10/Pryor-Obit.html (2011 words)

	Richard Pryor Photos - Richard Pryor News - Richard Pryor Information
		Richard Pryor was set to do the voice of Eddie for the film "looks who talking too" but reportedly got sick, the part eventually went to damon wayans.
		Pryor was originally cast as Sherriff Bart for the film Blazing Saddles, but left the project due to creative differences.
		Pryor's Place happened to be the only Sid & Marty Kroft Saturday morning series of the '80s & the 2nd CBS show (the other; Far Out Space Nuts).
	www.tv.com /richard-pryor/person/22118/summary.html (348 words)

	Comedian RICHARD PRYOR: Profile - TalkingComedy.com Laughter's Legends
		“Richard Pryor's comedy is a mirror, a statement, a social commentary, and an explanation of a condition.
		Pryor was originally being seriously considered for the lead in that movie but the role ended up going to actor Cleavon Little after Hollywood executives become leery of casting Pryor because of his growing reputation for drug and alcohol fueled behavior.
		Richard Pryor went on to star in over a dozen more films in the next decade and two more live stand-up concerts before his health problems would make it too hard for him to continue doing major movie roles.
	www.talkingcomedy.com /summer2001/legends-su01/RP-LGND-su01.html (2304 words)

	Comic actor who pushed humor across racial lines
		Richard Pryor, the comedian and actor who brought the private humor of fl America to an integrated mainstream audience through his film, television and concert appearances, died Saturday of a heart attack.
		Pryor's multiple marriages and his many health problems, including a horrifying incident in which he set himself on fire while freebasing cocaine, made his private life the subject of much sensational coverage, and he fearlessly addressed his own ordeals as an integral part of his act.
		Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was born Dec. 1, 1940, in Peoria, Ill. His mother, Gertrude, was a wayward woman who left during her son's early childhood.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/11/PRYOR.TMP (1496 words)

	Comedian Richard Pryor Dies At 65, 'Stir Crazy' Star Had Multiple Sclerosis, Suffered A Heart Attack - CBS News
		A series of hit comedies and concert films in the '70s and '80s helped make Pryor one of the highest paid stars in Hollywood, and he was one of the first fl performers to have enough leverage to cut his own deals.
		Throughout his career, Pryor focused on racial inequality, once joking as the host of the Academy Awards in 1977 that Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier were the only fl members of the Academy.
		Pryor made a comeback attempt the following year, returning to standup comedy in clubs and on television while looking thin and frail, and with noticeable speech and movement difficulties.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/12/10/entertainment/main1115804.shtml (737 words)

	Comedian Richard Pryor dies
		Pryor broke many barriers for fl performers during his heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, becoming one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood.
		Richard Pryor, shown in 1998, pioneered a highly personal and deeply raunchy kind of social commentary in his stand-up routines.
		Pryor married seven times, although he only had five wives in total because he married two women twice each.
	www.cbc.ca /world/story/2005/12/10/pryor-051210.html (1616 words)

	The Black Commentator - Ode to Richard Pryor
		That was the true social genius of Richard Pryor.
		Richard Pryor, in many ways, was a prophet.
		Richard Pryor's mortal frame has fallen, never to rise again, but what he has left behind will continue to endure as long as the Black community and America exists.
	www.blackcommentator.com /163/163_rhymes_richard_pryor.html (1043 words)

	Amazon.ca: Richard Pryor: Live in Concert: DVD: Jeff Margolis,Richard Pryor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Watching Pryor go from imitating a drinking deer to a woman debating about going in the woods gives just a hint of the comedic genius of the man. Crude, foul, and real, this is the first and best of his concert films.
		Pryor pokes a lot of fun at himself, his wife and the law.
		Richard Pryor is the king of comedy, now and forever...broke all the rules...set the scale for Murphy, Rock, Williams, everybody.....amazing, so original...timeless...funniest sh*t i have ever seen....
	www.amazon.ca /Richard-Pryor-Concert-Jeff-Margolis/dp/B000FL7CBE (921 words)

	Richard Pryor
		His parents married when Pryor was three, but he was mostly raised by his grandmother, who, Pryor says, ran a whorehouse and beat him as punishment for random transgressions.
		Pryor's new act was filled with painfully accurate commentary on fl-white inequities, hilarity with hostility.
		Pryor was one of the writers of Blazing Saddles (1974), and was originally announced to play the sheriff, but lost the part due to his already well-known drug problems.
	www.nndb.com /people/342/000022276 (386 words)

	Comedian Richard Pryor dies at 65 - Richard Pryor - MSNBC.com
		Comedian-actor Richard Pryor, the caustic yet perceptive actor-comedian who lived dangerously close to the edge both on stage and off, has died, his ex-wife said Saturday.
		Pryor was fired by one Las Vegas hotel for “obscenities” directed at the audience.
		In his 1977 NBC television series “The Richard Pryor Show,” he threatened to cancel his contract with the network.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/10412702 (1033 words)

	NPR : The Boundless Gifts of Richard Pryor
		Pryor, shown at a 1981 concert, influenced a generation of popular entertainers.
		All Things Considered, December 10, 2005 ·; Comedian Richard Pryor, who died Saturday at 65, was one of the most influential and popular performers in recent American history.
		Pryor was regarded early in his career as one of the most foul-mouthed comics in the business, but he gained a wide following for his expletive-filled but universal and frequently personal insights into modern life and race relations.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5047895 (722 words)

	Richard Pryor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pryor was a gifted storyteller known for unflinching examinations of race and custom in modern life, and was well-known for his frequent use of colorful language, vulgarities, as well as such racial epithets as "nigger," "honky," and "cracker".
		Pryor died of cardiac arrest at the age of 65 in Encino, California.
		An image of Pryor was shown during both the "In Memoriam" montage at the 2006 'Oscars', and the same of the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Pryor (3066 words)

	Richard Pryor Biography - Biography.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		With his expressive face, speedy wit and raunchy language, Pryor created a variety of characters on stage and screen, winning an Emmy Award in 1973, and five Grammy Awards in 1974, 1975, 1976, 1981, and 1982.
		The comedian also starred in the short-lived Richard Pryor Show for NBC in 1977, but the network censors were not ready for his act and he was unwilling to alter his content.
		Pryor was married seven times to five women and has seven children.
	www.biography.com /search/article.jsp?aid=9448082 (224 words)

	FOXNews.com - Richard Pryor Dies at 65 - Celebrity Gossip \| Entertainment News \| Arts And Entertainment
		LOS ANGELES — Richard Pryor, the groundbreaking comedian whose profanely personal insights into race relations and modern life made him one of Hollywood's biggest stars, died of a heart attack Saturday.
		Pryor died after being taken to a hospital from his home in the San Fernando Valley, said his business manager, Karen Finch.
		Pryor also wrote scripts for the television series "Sanford and Son," "The Flip Wilson Show" and two specials for Lily Tomlin.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,178342,00.html (1549 words)

	ABC News: Richard Pryor Made Audiences Laugh, Think (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Richard Pryor waves to the audience after receiving the Hall of Fame award at the NAACP 27th Image Awards in a Saturday April 6, 1996 photo, in Pasadena, Calif. Richard Pryor, the caustic yet perceptive actor-comedian who lived dangerously close to the edge both on stage and off, died Saturday.
		That's what Pryor, who died Saturday of a heart attack at age 65, did for people all across America in the 1970s, his breakthrough decade and a time when the country was hotly divided not only by the Vietnam War but by the civil rights battles of the 1950s and '60s that preceded it.
		It was a word he would use frequently in the 1970s, even using it in the name of his second album as he tried to take the sting out of the epithet by repeating it over and over.
	abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=1395488 (471 words)

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