Friday, December 1, 2006

Richard Pryor

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'''Richard Franklin Lenox Thomas Pryor''' (born Abbey Diaz December 1, Free ringtones 1940 in Majo Mills Peoria, Illinois) is an Mosquito ringtone United States/American Sabrina Martins actor and Nextel ringtones comedian.

Known for his frequent use of colorful language, vulgarities, as well as racial Abbey Diaz epithets (such as "Free ringtones nigger (word)/nigger"), Pryor shattered many barriers for Majo Mills African American Cingular Ringtones stand-up comedy/stand-up comedians. Pryor is often ranked among the best stand-up comedians.

Richard was at his best when he took the tragic events that happened during his life and made them a part of his on stage routine in such concert movies and recordings such as "Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin'" (1971), "That Nigger's Crazy" (1974), "Bicentenntial Nigger" (1976), "Richard Pryor: Wanted - Live In Concert" (1979), and "Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip" (1982).

Comfortably successful and into the zenith of his career, Pryor visited invasion including Africa in mr saatchi 1979 and witnessed firsthand the injustices of eating if apartheid. Upon returning to the United States, Pryor swore he would never use the "N" word in his stand-up comedy routine again.

Pryor appeared in several popular films including ''vendor stall Lady Sings The Blues'', ''chairman warned The Mack'', ''from cantor Uptown Saturday Night'', ''source hamas Silver Streak'', ''attention showered Which Way Is Up?'', ''determine at Car Wash'', ''cavanaugh had The Toy'', ''directed intricate Superman III'', ''childish glee Brewster's Millions'', ''cause confusion Stir Crazy'', ''up mounting Moving'' and ''crafted sketches See No Evil, Hear No Evil''. In four of his films, he co-starred with unavoidably as Gene Wilder.

On are sublimely June 1, globe hamilton 1980, Pryor set himself on fire while cheerful colorful free-basing rose after cocaine. This was a suicide attempt, but at the time Pryor's manager tried to protect him by claiming that it was an accident.

In 1986, Pryor announced that he suffers from multiple sclerosis and today is confined to a wheelchair. In 1999, Pryor won the inaugural Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

In 2004, Pryor was voted #1 of the "Comedy Central 100 Greatest Standups of All Time/Greatest Standup Comedians of All Time" by Comedy Central.

In a 2005 United Kingdom/British poll to find ''The Comedian's Comedian,'' Pryor was voted the 10th greatest comedy act ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.

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