Thoughts on Richard Pryor's passing.
Dec. 11th, 2005 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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alanesq
Last night Comedy Central aired "I Ain't Dead Yet, Mutha Fucker!" as a tribute with a scroll across the bottom of the screen at times with the dates of his birth and death. It's sad that his health deteriorated so much that he couldn't make a new appearance in a tribute show saying he wasn't dead. He had advanced stages of MS and was confined to a wheelchair. I had seen him from back in '99 when his winning the Mark Twain Prize for Humor was aired and he didn't look so good even then. This picture from 2004 shows him looking much older than 65.
I did some poking around the RichardPryor.com site and found this most unfortunate picture (fill in your own caption).
Then I found this picture. For some reason it made me smile rather than frown. He's up there with Rodney and the Wonder Wheel. It can't be all that bad.
alanesqLast night Comedy Central aired "I Ain't Dead Yet, Mutha Fucker!" as a tribute with a scroll across the bottom of the screen at times with the dates of his birth and death. It's sad that his health deteriorated so much that he couldn't make a new appearance in a tribute show saying he wasn't dead. He had advanced stages of MS and was confined to a wheelchair. I had seen him from back in '99 when his winning the Mark Twain Prize for Humor was aired and he didn't look so good even then. This picture from 2004 shows him looking much older than 65.
I did some poking around the RichardPryor.com site and found this most unfortunate picture (fill in your own caption).
Then I found this picture. For some reason it made me smile rather than frown. He's up there with Rodney and the Wonder Wheel. It can't be all that bad.
