Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

00:00:02 This programme contains adult humour and very strong language.

00:03:40 because a lot of you probably don't know me. I'm not a New Yorker.

00:07:08 I want him out of the hotel, and he is finished.

00:10:38 an audience as you could get.

00:13:42 See now, you can just say that. If I said that, won't you get mad?

00:16:48 He wasn't just telling jokes, he was telling stories.

00:20:05 I said to him, why don't you meet me for breakfast? He said, "Breakfast.

00:23:30 David was a very powerful black manager, based out of Atlanta.

00:26:31 I come upstairs and he said, "Look!"

00:29:24 Well, look at me! I'm standing here naked.

00:32:24 That was it. He went out swinging.

00:35:38 But once he would marry, the magic would be off.

00:38:54 "Bitch, go out and get the money."

00:42:08 But now he had endless money, endless fame.

00:45:45 At my house.

00:49:23 I looked in every phone book in Africa.

00:52:38 And he had the pipe and the torch, and he wasn't going to put it down.

00:56:27 used to call me on, and nobody else used that phone.

00:59:03 I tried to commit suicide.

01:01:57 He started doing his act backwards.

01:05:06 His latest performance, Live On The Sunset Strip

01:08:31 And I'm choking him and yelling at Richard

01:11:25 One day, he called. I said, "What's the matter?"

01:14:57 Richard Pryor defined the game of stand-up comedy and comedy itself.