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Richard Pryor passed...

netbanshee

23:50 / 10.12.05

Richard Pryor passed away today. Quite a big loss to the comedy world.

I'm gonna miss him... even had Stir Crazy sitting next up in the netflix queue when I read the news. Good luck buddy, let's hope the big man shares your sense of humor.

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00:12 / 11.12.05

Oh fuck this. I'm getting drunk tomorrow night.

PEACE PRYOR!

I loved that guy.

Damn.

Just damn.

Only 65. Man, that sucks, because I feel like he had a lot of funny business left in him.

Mourne Kransky

06:35 / 11.12.05

Funny man. Always on the edge. I admired the way he would take any bad thing that had happened to him and analyse it on stage, with hard-hitting, rapid-fire humour. He never got to grips with the gay thing though. Shame.

btw, being from the UK, I was wondering what he had passed or where you were when he passed you? I see that he passed is an American euphemism for he died.

paranoidwriter waves hello

13:15 / 11.12.05

Thanks for all the side-splitting, rolling on the floor laughter, Mr Pryor. You were a true comedy genius and I dearly wish I'd had the chance to see you perform live. Maybe in the next life?

Brigade du jour

13:26 / 11.12.05

Well this sucks. But I can't say I'm totally shocked. RIP indeed.

Cherielabombe

13:52 / 11.12.05

Tips hat.

Truly, goodbye to a comedic genius.

Benny the Ball

14:22 / 11.12.05

I've been getting some of his albums, and he was very very good on the stage - it's a shame that life and hollywood took its toll and turned him into what a lot of people will remember him for, either a crack fiend that set fire to himself, or a really bad actor in that terrible (but not the worst) Superman film.

RIP in deed.

doglikesparky

14:33 / 11.12.05

...a crack fiend that set fire to himself...

And then he told jokes about it. And they were very funny.

Rest well, Mr Pryor.

Benny the Ball

14:48 / 11.12.05

He did a damn fine line in self-mockery.

Seth

16:21 / 11.12.05

that terrible (but not the worst) Superman film

Wank off, wankhead. The junkyard fight between Clark Kent and Kryptonite-evil Supes is still The Greatest Scene in Cinema History.

...well, apart from the whole ending of Search for Spock.

Sad news, BTW.

paranoidwriter waves hello

16:59 / 11.12.05

And let's not forget 'Brewster's Millions'. I've always thought "None of the above" should be mandatory on all voting slips. Apathy, my arse.

Loomis

17:32 / 11.12.05

There has not been a single time in a voting booth when I have not had the image of Richard Pryor exhorting me to vote for none of the above. Ace.

akira

18:49 / 11.12.05

Richard Pryor, the motherfucker who invented the phrase motherfucker. Rest in peace.

ps. I know I should'nt speak ill of the dead, appologys to any sad fuck wit who was offended.

Totem Polish

22:22 / 11.12.05

That's a real shame. Who will we turn to for jokes about pet monkies shagging the ears of film execs now? Truly a great man, funny like nothing else. Gonna go watch that live dvd of his and shed some extra tears of laughter. RIP

akira

22:56 / 11.12.05

Live at Sunset Strip? I like the bit with the italians. Stick up!!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:15 / 12.12.05

This is indeed sad news.

(btw- Xoc said " I was wondering what he had passed or where you were when he passed you? I see that he passed is an American euphemism for he died. which reminds me of a big argument I had with a friend a week or so ago... hmm, I feel a "euphemisms for dying and why I don't like them" thread coming on...)

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:36 / 12.12.05

Necromantic charlatan John Edwards is very good for eye-watering euphemisms for death...

Smoothly

10:56 / 12.12.05

Start that thread, Stoatie. I have a thing about the use of the verb ‘to lose’, and am interested to know how come we have developed a euphemism that implies carelessness on the part of the bereaved.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:32 / 12.12.05

(I shall do, Smoothly... when I'm not drunk. Possibly at work tonight.)

Mourne Kransky

17:18 / 12.12.05

Stoatie has passed on that opportunity for the moment.

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17:57 / 12.12.05

I didn't get pissed but I had a lager for him when I was on the way home last night. It didn't seem like enough though, so I'll have another later on in memory of him.

This still sucks though.