Richard Pryor "Basketball, Fights & Heroes" on The Ed Sullivan Show

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(audience clapping) - Thank you and hope I'm funny and I like to start off, I was going to talk about church but after dress rehearsal the censure said "(shrill noise) you won't be able to talk about church" but I thought I'd talk about something close to church I could talk about basketball (audience laughing) I used to play a lot of basketball 'cause it was cool You know, you could get girls if you was really cool I don't know if you've ever watched the guys play You know we have some cool guys in the courts "Throw it back bruh, throw the ball man. Well you ain't gonna play, throw the ball, messin' around Hey Gus you wanna choose out man, best two out of three? Well I'm game, right on, switch beautiful. Throw the ball man, come on Say man, you gonna throw the ball or what? Ain't nobody gonna choose you, get your brother Your momma too if you wanna. Switch, beautiful Here we go, this one for the white boys Beautiful Hey Gus, your turn "Gimme the ball man, say Harry throw the ball this the way you do it, That don't count, that's right, it don't count unless I say it count if you want to do something about it, you know what I mean?" And it'd be some terrible fights, right? Dudes be fighting, "uuuuurgh" unless there be be some girls around then they get cool. You got different kinds of fighters too, right 'cause some dudes didn't talk, what! Then we had dudes who would argue, right? "Wait a minute. no, wait a minute get up no man, you're always coming over to the court you know what I mean, starting the same ol' stuff now I'm tired of you I'll point there, you dig it? There, there I'll point, don't tell me what to do now don't hold me man, get out. Now you're supposed to be bad I said don't hold me, what you holdin' me for, you ain't got nothing to do with it you don't be holding me. both of you cats then I don't care, well don't hold me then, you jus' get off man you bad, man you think you bad, y'all always doing something bad push me your bad, c'mon push me now push me again" We don't fight each other no more like we used to 'cause nowadays we've got black pride, we got together now We're fighting other things you know, 'cause when I was a kid we didn't have no heroes you know, like Marlon Brando we didn't have no black heroes like Huey Newton Eldridge Cleveland so now we got together, you know we organize it and doing beautiful things you go to meetings, cats be rapping "What we're tryin'a to do is to establish within organizational force, a reputational group of individuals who will divide within themselves with a unanimous decision to overload the power of structure whereas we can devise our own destiny, you dig where I'm coming from?" (audience laughing) "Now, the problem being that we are an internal group trying to work out of the internal bag which we're trying to do very heavily with support of the masses of people we will be able to do this with limited amount of time. Now we have brother Ojogo who's been in Japan studying martial arts and he is going to demonstrate ninjitsu, karate and the other martial arts by breaking up this volunteer, who's a white man that came up from the audience." (audience laughing) Go ahead bruh' Beautiful We also like to thank the family of the white man for donating him it just goes to show you there are some good white people left in America. And now to move along, as you know a revolutionary group is not only supposed to go in and fight in combat we're also supposed to educate and entertain the masses of the people. Now brothers, the commandos, the black commandos will demonstrate by singin' an African folk song with accompaniment on the congas are brother Koji Kajudu (imitating hitting congas) (Singing in foreign language) Right on brothers, right on. Thank you very much, that's all right We can dig it Thank you, thank you, that's alright, please Please, we don't have much time on this medium, we'd like to carry on. Now we'd like to introduce a black poet who's been called an angry poet by the masses but he's our brother, he's gonna tell it like it is. Brother Tijo Majo, right on bro. Thank you, my first poem if I may Black! (audience laughing) Now for my second poem, this was a change by the establishment as most black artists work are changed High diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle and the cow jumped all over the moon. Now a lot of you out there, probably doubt this coming from a black man, but if a w-w- -white man was the stand up here and tell you, you might believe it, and that's what we got to do brothers and sisters, we got to get together and organize ourselves against w-w-w (audience laughing) whitie, because if we don't we're gonna be in a lot of trouble. Now a lot'a you out there you sayin' to yourselves right now" "well if you feel that way about w-w-w, (audience laughing) white people, how come you're married to w-w-white woman?" "That ain't got nothin' to do with it" (upbeat orchestra music)
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Channel: The Ed Sullivan Show
Views: 39,523
Rating: 4.8809524 out of 5
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Length: 6min 28sec (388 seconds)
Published: Sat Aug 22 2020
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