Pryor says, pointing to a newly minted copy of the memoir. Jennifer likes to use words like 'catharsis.' So that's my catharsis right there," Mr.
We all remember our lives differently from how it really is. "What I've learned from the book is I'm not different from other people. Still, when the discussion moves to a topic that truly interests him, the spark of the old Pryor burns brightly in his eyes.
Sometimes he breaks into a faint smile when he cracks wise, or scrunches up into a look of profound concentration as he tries to follow an interviewer's meandering questions. His once-expressive face, now gaunt, usually settles into a frown. His beige pants and olive-drab pullover droop over a scarecrow's frame that was never exactly beefy. His movement, what little there is, is slow and determined. "It was a revolution that perhaps only Pryor, with his unusual background and astonishing array of dramatic and comic skills, could have accomplished."īut the revolutionary looks a little wispy this afternoon. "He was the first African-American stand-up comedian to speak candidly and successfully to integrated audiences the way black people joked among themselves when most critical of America," according to Mr. Pryor's humor in his book "On the Real Side," a definitive study of African-American comedy. Urn:oclc:874965617 Scandate 20110413225954 Scanner ."It was nothing short of revolutionary," Mel Watkins writes of Mr. OL15839287W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 84.56 Pages 298 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0434002941
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