Re: Richard Pryor

Jamie Schrumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 

> Tom Enright amazed everyone in rec.sport.football.college by
> posting: 
> 
>> 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?

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