Why Do People Love Richard Pryor So

I Was In Love With A Lot Of People, Because I Was A Student Of The Game Of Comedy - Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles, Red Foxx, Moms Mabley - Who Gets No Credit, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Kirby. I Loved Them All, And I Used To Just Take A Page Out Of All Of Them.

As I Got Older, I Got Into All Kinds Of Things In The Streets - But For Some Reason, I Never Got Caught Up With The Gangs Growing Up. Everybody Dug Me, Man. I Never Had Problems.

I Learned Hard Lessons In Life; I Had To Because I Had So Much Happen: My Mother Died My Sophomore Year In High School. The Next Year, Same Day, My Brother Dropped Dead. Two Years After That, I Got Married Because My Girlfriend Got Pregnant. The Year After My Wedding, My Father - Who I Had Only Recently Met - Died.

I Took My Sports Experience To My Life On Stage. That's Why I'm So Disciplined. Playing Sports, I Was Always Underestimated. I Was Never Picked First To Do Anything. This Always Helped Me. It Taught Me How To Push Myself.

Jerry Weintraub, The Producer, Might Be A Pain In The Ass, But He Really Knows How To Treat His Actors.