Re: Richard Pryor

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Enright) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Daniel Seriff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 7:11:10 -0600, Tom Enright wrote
> > (in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):
> > 
> > > Has he ever been funny?  I remember seeing him on my friend's top-loading
> > > VCR circa 1980, and I thought that their was something I didn't get about
> > > his adult humor.  Comedy Central profiled him last night and showed numerous
> > > excerpts from his routines and the crowd was falling out of their chairs
> > > laughing. But, nothing.  Nothing he said was remotely funny.  What gives?
>  
> > Um. You have no soul?
> 
> Apparently not, judging from other responses.
> 
> > > Dishonorable Mention:
> > > 
> > > 1.  Robin Williams (over the last 10 years)
> > > 2.  George Carlin  (over the last 15 years)
>  
> > Well, that clinches it. And I thought it was bizzare that my dad doesn't 
> > think Monty Python is funny. You, sir, are a freak.
> 
> Can someone post some funny Pryor schtick?  I know he is about setting a
> mood and not a one liner guy like Stephen Wright, but please...why is he
> so damb funny?
> 

Um, his descripotion of setting himself on fire and running down the
street with bums asking for a light off of his sleeve.