Richard Pryor]For me Richard Pryor is the funniest comedian known to man he is known as “The king of comedy”,The godfather of comedy”He is highly influential, and always controversial, African/American actor/comedian who was 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,especially Eddie Murphy who he mentored But Richard Pryor went through some bad times as a child,he was born in 1940 in Illinois in America and was the son of a prostitute and was abandoned by his mother at ten years of age. But he did lived with his grandmothers brother any way .Unfortunately, Pryor was molested at the age of six by a teenage neighbor, and later by a neighborhood priest. To escape this troubled life, the young Pryor was a devoted movie fan and and liked to watch many films. After numerous jobs, including truck driver and meat packer, the young Pryor did a stint in the US Army between 1958 & 1960 in which he performed in amateur theater shows. Unknown to many, Pryor was against animal cruelty, and he campaigned against fast food chains and circus shows to address issues of animal welfare. He was married a total of seven times, and fathered eight children.Remarried two of his ex-wives..Has admitted the fire that nearly killed him while free-basing cocaine in the early 1980s was in fact a suicide attempt. His management created the “accident” lie for the press in hopes of really protecting him. He was chosen as #1 in Comedy Central’s 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time in april 2004.He suffered from Multiple Sclerosis from 1986 until his death in 2005.Eddie Murphy apointed to Pryor as his role model and inspiration to become a comedian himself.Won five Grammys in the “Best Comedy Recording” category for “That Nigger’s Crazy” in 1974., “Is It Something I Said?” in 1975., “Bicentennial Nigger” in 1976, “Rev Du Rite” in 1981 and “Live On the Sunset Strip” 1982.After long battles with ill health, Richard Pryor passed away on December 10th, 2005 and is regarded as the best comedian to walk on this earth. R.I.P Richard Pryor. FROM NATHANK1 This is a dedication to Richard Pryor and this is one of his funniest comedy bits below RICHARD PRYOR QUOTES

“You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there’s something wrong”.

[On his job as a boxing gym sparring partner]: “I always had to fight the guys who looked like they just killed their parents”.

“Comedy rules! Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise, and there are no rules in stand-up comedy, which I really like. You can do anything you want and you can say anything that comes to mind, just so long as it’s funny. If you ain’t funny then get the fuck off the stage, it’s that simple”.

“I live in racist America and I’m uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can’t do much better than that”.

“I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst. In other words, I had a life”.

“It’s been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.” .He is the king of comedy but is forgotten by many but in peoples some heart he will always be the funniest comedian to to ever live.