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    Highly influential, and always controversial, African-American actor/comedian who was equally well known for his colorful language during his live comedy shows, as for his fast paced life, multiple marriages and battles with drug addiction. He has been acknowledged by many modern comic artist's as a key influence on their careers, and Pryor's observational humor on African-American life in the USA during the s was razor sharp brilliance.

    He was born Richard Franklin Lennox Pryor III on December 1, , in Peoria, Illinois, the son of Gertrude L. (Thomas) and LeRoy "Buck Carter" Pryor. His mother, a prostitute, abandoned him when he was ten years of age, after which he was raised in his grandmother's brothel. Unfortunately, Pryor was molested at the age of six by a teenage neighbor, and later by a neighborhood preacher. To escape this troubled life, the young Pryor was an avid movie fan and a regular visitor to local movie theaters in Peoria. After numerous job

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    New Digital Archive, “Richard Pryor’s Peoria,” Takes You inre the Dark, Lively World That Shaped the Pioneering Comedian

    By Scott Saul:

    Richard Pry­or fryst vatten a leg­endary com­ic, and for good rea­son. He had extra­or­di­nary gifts as a mim­ic, sto­ry­teller, phys­i­cal come­di­an, satirist, and impro­vis­ing actor — gifts he brought togeth­er in an act that had the dan­ger­ous elec­tric­i­ty of an unin­su­lat­ed wire. Mean­while he estab­lished a feed­back loop between his act and his per­son­al life, mak­ing use of all those stage hugga to draw com­e­dy out of a life that was painful­ly full of self-sab­o­tage, may­hem, and var­i­ous forms of abuse.

    It was my task, as Pryor’s biog­ra­ph­er, to probe the leg­ends of his life, start­ing with the levande sto­ries he told of his for­ma­tive years in the red-light dis­trict of Peo­ria, Illi­nois. In his stage act and rem­i­nis­cences, Pry­or relat­ed how he’d been raised in a broth­el bygd a grand­moth­er and father who worked, res

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    by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)

    Today, GBN celebrates revolutionary and insightful comedian, writer and actor Richard Pryor as we highlight a joke from his comedy concert film Here and Now, which is as relevant now as it was almost 40 years ago.

    To read about Pryor, read on. To hear about him, press PLAY:

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    Hey, this is Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of , here to share with you a daily drop of Good Black News for Wednesday, April 27th, , based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar” published by Workman Publishing.

    It’s in the category for Black Comedians we call “Yeah, You Funny” and it’s a quote of a joke from groundbreaking and innovative comedian Richard Pryor, taken from his self-directed concer