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  1. Richard Pryor®. From Peoria, Illinois poverty to Hollywood affluence. From abandonment by his mother to adoration from millions of fans. From a childhood in a brothel to eight marriages (twice to the same woman) and seven children. From tragedy to triumph and back again, Richard Pryor has earned the status of Legend as a masterful storyteller ...

  2. Jun 12, 2020 · Richard Pryor made this observation about police in 1979. It sounds like the present day.Watch Richard Pryor: Live in Concert, only on Netflix. https://www.n...

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  3. Dec 12, 2005 · 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. He ...

  4. Feb 11, 2023 · Watch Richard Pryor's hilarious and iconic stand-up comedy show on the Sunset Strip, featuring his stories about mafianightclub and more.

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  5. Dec 11, 2005 · Richard Pryor, the only child of Leroy Pryor and Gertrude Thomas Pryor, was born in Peoria, Ill., on Dec. 1, 1940, and raised in a household where, as he wrote, "I lived among an assortment of ...

  6. Pryor found success in his first comedy special, Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin’ in 1971, but it was his sophomore effort in 1974, That N*****’s Crazy, was what helped he sky-rocket to fame. Though he confessed in later years that he regretted the name of the stand-up special, the album won him his first of many Grammy Awards and it turned ...

  7. Dec 11, 2014 · AP. Comedian Richard Pryor's legacy still reverberates nearly 10 years after his death. Pryor took the most difficult troubling aspects of his life and turned it into comedy. He talked about being ...

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