January 12, 2004
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Watching TV has become a rare event for me, since I turned my cable off about 10 months ago. Some notes from hanging at mom's house last night:
1. The Simpsons needs to get cancelled. It has become a pale shadow of its former self, and every week it continues to air is a disgrace to what was once the greatest achievement in the history of television. I will come back to this later.. I'm not even kidding, it makes me angry.
2. One of the few people perched higher in my cultural pantheon than The Simpsons is Richard Pryor, so when we turned to Comedy Central's tribute "I Ain't Dead Yet", I was afraid it'd be another disservice to one of my heroes. It started off on the wrong foot with Richard's wife, Jennifer Lee Pryor, injecting far too much of herself into the mix, and I'd rather see more natural conversation instead of the VH1-style barrage of jump cuts between 35 different talking heads.
But even in that format an abundance of love was shining through from everyone they interviewed (fun to see Mos Def and Dave Chappelle hangin out), and between that and clips of the man himself, this turned out to be a halfway decent tribute.
One glaring omission: why did they talk to every comic except the one who knows Richard best, his right-hand man Paul Mooney? They even took a clip of Robert Townsend imitating Mooney, quoting his "I say nigger 100 times a day to keeps my teeth white" routine, but mixed it into a montage of Richard Pryor quotes and made it look like he was quoting Richard instead of Paul. Does Richard's wife (who was executive producer of the show) have some kind of beef with paul?
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Posted by jsmooth995 at January 12, 2004 03:48 PM
On the Pryor special... it seemed like the guests were improvising their responses to the questions about Pryor. Very unusual for a tribute special.
On that one clip from 1982 (wearing red suit) it sounded like his whole head was numb from coke. It almost sounded like he was gagging on the back of his throat and he was really shaking hard. But Richard is still the champ. Mr. Universal. I too, have trouble believing he is not dead. Just goes to show how strong he is.
Posted by: eric at January 12, 2004 05:30 PM
oh man, you should read jennifer lee's memoirs. she is a total freak.
Posted by: bee at January 12, 2004 07:01 PM
so at some point will he turn into big ol' bow wow? (bow diddy?)
Posted by: gsqual at January 12, 2004 07:39 PM
The Simpsons! Jay, my family has been talking about how bad the last 4 episodes have been. I wondered if anyone else had noticed.
Posted by: Madison at January 12, 2004 11:36 PM
Last 4 episodes? Try the last 4 years. (OK, 3 years.)
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Posted by: James kirkup at January 19, 2004 01:22 PM
Injecting far too much of myself? SInce I have known RIchard intimately since 1977 and have such wonderful stories-the obvious was to interview myself-and all the comments thus far were that people wanted more! I have no beef with Mooney except Comedy Central didn't want him because he is so common a talking head when it comes to RIchard. When I produce a longer doc, perhaps I will use him.Your comments smack of racism-and at the very least, lack of intelligence!
Posted by: Jennifer Lee Pryor at March 6, 2004 01:58 PM
On second thought,why don't you visit our website www.richardpryor.com and talk to Richard yourself-you'll also be happy to see that I, Jennifer Lee Pryor, Richard's wife twice, am all over it!
Posted by: Jennifer Lee Pryor at March 6, 2004 02:23 PM
Mooney is all over my website-check it out!
Posted by: richard pryor at March 6, 2004 02:30 PM
Shit-Jenny had all the good stories-the Pryor's rock, without jennifer-it would have been one of those canned VH1 shows you're talking about. Shit she knows Richard better than Mooney. Hell, you must be a Damon Wayans man! I dunno about racism but it sure looks like good old-fashioned, hiphop sexism to me-and I'm black mofo and I can tell- if you dissin Mrs. Pryor and those great stories she told!
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Posted by: veronica james at March 6, 2004 02:45 PM
Well, as a long-time fan of Mr. Pryor's I for one was THRILLED to see Mrs. Pryor giving us some "inside scoop" instead of all the run-of-the-mill shit. Her stories were real and true and touching and I thought the whole show showed what incredible love there is from everyone on it for Richard. He really is the KING of stand-up. And to Bee, who made the comment about Jennifer being a freak, I am assuming you were using "freak" as an endearing compliment. Then again, some people can't handle the truth when it is told. Richard Pryor was always a truth-teller and of course he would have to marry the same!
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