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...RICHARD PRYOR is officially back, and to those who were worried that his highly publicized cocaine freebasing accident and subsequent finding of God would tone down his act will be reassured by the opening line of Live on the Sunset Strip: "I'd like to talk about something serious tonight: fucking...
Obscenity is an integral part of Pryor's routines. The greater portion of his vocabulary is comprised of George Carlia's infamous "Seven Dirty Words You Can't Say on Television." If either of Pryor's movies ever ran on television, it would last about ten minutes--five of which would be credits...
Vulgarity has helped to make Pryor one of America's foremost stand-up comedians. His constant barrage of obscenities is so over-whelming that it eventually has a numbing effect; after a while, one ceases to notice the four-letter words and obscene gestures...
...Pryor's jokes, however, go somewhat deeper than the language he uses to tell them. During Live on the Sunset Strip, Pryor takes the opportunity to talk about sex, drugs and the condition of Blacks in America. And, he lends credibility to his jokes by drawing them from his personal experience...
...speaks, for instance, of his visit to the Arizona State Prison, which, he discovered, is 80 percent Black. "But there are no Black people in Arizona," he notes. Surprised to find that all the prisoners really belonged behind bars. Pryor said he had always thought "Black people only killed other people by accident...