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Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Known for reaching a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, he is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential comedians of all time. Pryor won a Primetime Emmy Award and five Grammy Awards. He received the first Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 1998. He wo…
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Born 1 December 1940 · Died 10 December 2005 · Q294912
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2026· 2 entries
“Shultz said at the time (during the film”
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “Live at the Comedy Store, 1973”.
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2019· 1 entry
Paramount Network debuted the documentary I Am Richard Pryor, directed by Jesse James Miller
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2017· 1 entry
Rolling Stone ranked him first on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time
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2015· 1 entry
Close to the neighborhood in which he grew up with his mother
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2014· 2 entries
“acknowledged his bisexuality”
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The biographical book Becoming Richard Pryor by Scott Saul stated that Pryor "acknowledged his bisexuality" and, in 2018, Quincy Jones and Pryor's widow Jennifer Lee stated that Pryor had a sexual relationship with actor
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2013· 2 entries
Released album “The Warner Bros. Albums (1974-1983)”.
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Showtime debuted the documentary Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Marina Zenovich
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2012· 1 entry
“Taxes and Death or Get Him to the Sunset Strip”
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “The Wiz 30th Anniversary Edition Music CD”.
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2006).
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2005· 5 entries
BET aired a Pryor special, titled The Funniest Man Dead or Alive
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Died 2005-12-10.
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Released album “Evolution/Revolution: The Early Years (1966-1974)”.
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Pryor's wife, Jennifer Lee, rebutted this statement in a post on Pryor's official website, citing Richard as saying: "I'm sick of hearing this shit about me not talking
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“Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.”
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “The Anthology 1968–1992”.
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Pryor and Jennifer Lee Pryor, his wife and manager, won legal rights to all the Laff material, which amounted to almost 40 hours of reel-to-reel analog tape
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A television documentary entitled The Funny Life of Richard Pryor depicted Pryor's life and career
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2001· 1 entry
Nuptials that remained largely private until Pryor's death in 2005
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “...And It's Deep Too!”.
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1999· 1 entry
Was awarded a Humanitarian Award by the group, and worked with them on campaigns against the treatment of birds by KFC
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (1998).
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Pryor won the first Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the John F
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1990· 2 entries
Pryor had a second heart attack while in Australia
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Career landmark: coronary artery bypass surgery.
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1986· 1 entry
Was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, which by the mid-1990s resulted in him using a mobility scooter most of the time
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1983· 2 entries
Pryor signed a five-year contract with Columbia Pictures for $40 million and he started his own production company, Indigo Productions
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Released album “Here and Now”.
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1982· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982).
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Released album “Live on the Sunset Strip”.
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Released album “SuperNigger”.
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1981· 1 entry
Released album “Rev. Du Rite”.
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1980· 3 entries
While on a freebasing binge during the making of the film, Pryor doused himself in rum and set himself on fire
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Pryor became the first black actor to earn a million dollars for a single film when he was hired to star in Stir Crazy
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Released album “Holy Smoke”.
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1979· 2 entries
At the height of his success, Pryor visited Kenya
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Released album “Outrageous”.
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1978· 3 entries
Released album “Wanted: Live in Concert”.
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Released album “Black Ben the Blacksmith”.
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Released album “The Wizard of Comedy”.
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1977· 5 entries
At a gay rights show at the Hollywood Bowl, "I have sucked a dick
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With Warren Beatty, Ellen Burstyn, and Jane Fonda and again at the 55th Academy Awards in 1983 alongside Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, and Walter Matthau
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Career landmark: myocardial infarction.
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Released album “Richard Pryor's Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Who Me? I'm Not Him”.
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1976· 5 entries
Released album “Bicentennial Nigger”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for Bicentennial Nigger (1976).
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Released album “L.A. Jail”.
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Released album “Insane”.
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Released album “Are You Serious???”.
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1975· 2 entries
Released album “... Is It Something I Said?”.
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Pryor was a guest host on the first season of Saturday Night Live (SNL), making him the first black host
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1974· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for That Nigger's Crazy (1974).
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Released album “That Nigger’s Crazy”.
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1971· 1 entry
Released album “Craps (After Hours)”.
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1970· 1 entry
And in 1971 recorded his second album, Craps (After Hours)
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1969· 1 entry
Pryor moved to Berkeley, California, where he immersed himself in the counterculture and met people like Huey P
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1968· 1 entry
Released album “Richard Pryor”.
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1966· 2 entries
And 1967, capture Pryor in this period
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Pryor was a guest star on an episode of The Wild Wild West
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1963· 1 entry
Pryor moved to New York City and began performing regularly in clubs alongside performers such as Bob Dylan and Woody Allen
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1952· 1 entry
(when Pryor was 11 or 12 years old) with someone named Wilbur Harp
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1940· 2 entries
In Peoria, Illinois, and grew up in a brothel run by his grandmother, Marie Carter
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Born 1940-12-01.
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