Still, with this second-hand persona he could earn a few bucks a night at the black-and-tan nightclubs – as venues with a mixed racial clientele were known. In the early days he emulated the homely style of Bill Cosby even though such a colourless approach hardly related to Pryor’s harsh reality amid the often murderous racial tensions bubbling in Peoria. Such extreme experiences informed his astonishingly frank stand-up routines, that were little short of revolutionary in their uncompromising approach. His is certainly a life less ordinary, if so often an utterly screwed-up one. It’s something of a surprise that Richard Pryor gets his entire life into just the one book after all he’s lived more in one week that most of us live in a lifetime.īorn in a whorehouse to a prostitute mother in the ghettos of Peoira, Illinois, to become one of the greatest comics of all-time, yet forever chasing women and drugs in a lifetime of addictive but unfulfilling hedonism that landed him in jail several times, and almost killed him.
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