Richard Pryor Carson Tonight Show 1983-06-09

Richard Pryor's here tonight I think Richard Pryor is probably the funniest funniest man we would embarrass him for me to say this while he was sitting here I know him but I think he's one of the true geniuses working comedy today he's not only thinks funny he's a skilled comedy actor and he's got a great string of movies out in recent years and now he's coo of starring in superman three Richard Pryor that was funny man it was alright yeah I like that coming from you okay if he's nothing much money I'll buy that are you doing I'm great I feel wonderful yeah you're looking good thank you very much yeah so happy to be here Johnny you see I don't know what's going on I don't I I'm at home you know and I've been here now above six months yeah I haven't been back to a why I'm going next week but I've been here and i watch television here I don't watch it away my turn on TV and I watch and I go hmm that's that's good and I don't understand I don't get it I mean I see I see the President Reagan on TV talking and I don't get angry or nothing most people be angry I just go hmm I wonder who lets him on you know I say to myself I said this man was standing on the street corner talking like he's talking you don't excuse me cuz they talking they're talking about now d talking about something real dangers they come out nuclear missiles yeah I mean that I'm not messing up all our sundaes I mean you know what I mean I mean if you don't have that uniform on you're gonna be a statue do you ever see that stuff that this the soldiers have it you know them suit saying I don't have one in my closet job it's a radiation suit you mean yeah I mean if you ain't got one of those pigeon park time on me you know and I'm not mad at no Russians at all i want the Russians and no Richard Pryor I'm not mad at you nothing I don't even know no Russian you know if I walk down the street if you don't have on that hat I ain't gonna know if that's right hey George how you doing that's ready Bo buddies ah before I gotta tell you something I was washing the other night I had never seen some kind of hero that picture you did ah I saw it on cable the other night you had me laughing so hard I almost wanted to call you and tell you I was hysterical he comes back from the war from the Vietnamese for you find out that your wife has been seen I'm seeing another guy they take all your money and they've spent it yeah you find out your mother is in a convalescent home yes and you got a scene where you go to the psychiatrist friends you're sitting there the psychiatrist says no we don't want to push psychiatry on anybody if we don't think you needed he says now do you think you have any major problems well he SAT there and didn't say a word and started to giggle you just it was one of the funny things I've ever seen my life thanks it do you have any major problems no the dog you just stood during laughs for two minutes Qaeda was a funny scene thank you very much I wish more people had seen it that was our best things I've ever seen I had fun doing them yeah are you still no still straight now yeah yes still I haven't had Johnny says out think he's talking you talking about drugs and liquor look here yeah good okay yeah I haven't had drugs in a long time now and it's the first time that are really trying to do something about it to stay off of it and i've been off a long time now and it's wearing off you know how your body builds up a residue well i got about 30 years of residue I'll be high another two years but don't you feel better sober I do I I feel great I don't know I feel scared you know I get a lot of you know those moments when I used to feel nervous I go get a drink of something now I don't do anything about it you know I sir I guess I had to stop drinking you know I just I just got tired of waking up on the freeway driving 90 you'll never do that now so be up quick why they leave me here and you don't remember things the next day no I don't remember people I see people i don't remember Richard you remember the time you kissed that elephant no I don't even remember you do you notice that when you when you're drunk I don't I know people out there to drink and see you people drink normal these people drink have a couple of drinks feel fine don't she'll drinking yeah me I couldn't stop drinking to the bar technical we got no more liquor ok that's it yeah it's it's a terrible habit it really is and it's tough to break and you can't makes sense you know you can't make sense when you drop your mind tells you to talk and it shouldn't tell you that because your lipstick I'm not gonna say that like that you know you start Oh hey is all for the job in here it's perfect take a break we're talking with you like to be gone Richard or Richie Richard or rich is fine either one Richard Richard I prefer Richard Richard yeah just Richards I bet your mother always called you Richard huh yeah my mom called me just she called me a lot Richard was one of the things that she would throw it now sure you were you folk pretty tough on you when you were growing up pretty tough I think I had like discipline discipline didn't only mean yeah it's like you know I had to be home at a certain time and do housework you know I was only child George leaves to call him if they can't do your chores I'm not that Oh George a few chores around the house no my grandma needs to put me to work though deck yeah your grandmother was uh she raised me yeah she had me working she'd made me do all the things necessary to do she said you never will know you have to take care of yourself you won't always have me around and you won't have a wife and she was right about that okay I know your grandmother we don't seem to be too good at it do we know I'm not good at all are you married it's a present time no I've been married so I get embarrassed when people ask Oh have you ever been married you know I've been married a few times I feel like that commercial for that what's that hair hair shampoo and and again again I'm great friends with my wise until we get married I'm really and we have a great relationship I'm darling is there anything I can get you I'm going I'm going to the store dear I'll be back in you know we get married and I don't see them for months Munson I hate when the lawyer comes to you when you're getting divorced I don't like when your lawyer come see you and goes think you ought to settle there's gonna be some things brought up just 70 girl she's gonna tell about me in that goat yeah well maybe you should just move you should just have friends lady frere I think now I have lady friends now and I like it yeah like I like women are I can't say I'll never be married again yeah um I just I like it so I enjoyed then I'll keep doing it I have some actress the other night about getting older of a bothered her she said well probably about Tom Kha Joan Rivers just bothers women more than men doesn't bother you doesn't you're getting little bit older it's not him it doesn't bother me until I'm out with some young men who move faster yeah and I was at a party one time with Michael Jackson is a singer right the man dance and he spend in the middle of the floor 20 minutes many walked forward backwards I want to dance ain't just you know unless they come on get into it and I say I hey Mike sit down you embarrassing me a lot of people know how bad i danced yet disclosed there's a difference there's a difference about being older than being younger cuz I just know that in in the mornings I notice it when i wake up i know when my friends and I saw someone my age when I was like 18 we see somebody farty we'd look at each other you don't know and you smell different to them No somebody said it old as always 15 years older than you are whatever age you are yeah if you're 15 somebody 30 years old if you're 30 45 becomes older type of seniors no real oh oh yeah oh you know but i knows i I run right and if I run my body says you used to do this much faster you know you can't get it together I also notional go through my address book a lot of the names have MD after them you just also said you said you another doctor three pages it you ever think about calling up women used to know and you call them up just to see you know yeah sure you call him up hi who is this this Richard Richard who Richard Pryor uh-huh I knew you'd call sorry usually get some husband answering the phone though uh and dating dating like going seeing you've been married and you have you get set in your ways cuz your wife will spar you so that when she leaves you you will miss her a lot right I can't seem to find the right blend I just I go out with people and you go out and you have dinner and then in the middle of dinner you're going I have to take this woman to a movie I'm going now how do i get up at dinner you Oh brain surgery I forgot i have to be at the hospital having my comedy operation yeah you fall into head those old habits again yeah I I don't know I i I'm I'm feeling good now yeah I'm going out with women and we talk that's good that's good and that says you build friendships instead of just hopping into the sac Metro we talk it's a very dull life less talking anyway uh um superman three is out you were you fall in with a bad guy so don't you well I'm tough in this one jack yeah that's my slaps the up sucka you heard me don't be trying to fly away come back here we got a food piece of film we got a film clip does this need a setup I know I think it's the film clip of me skiing just one song is this you should i'm here with the with the bad guys and I'm talking robert vaughn and annie ross and pamela stephenson okay here's the next trip from Superman 30 God's been doing some thinking good that's why I keep you around yeah I've been thinking that I'm not making enough money for this gig Gus if there's anything I hate its greed greed mr. Roth's just a minute let me tell you something honey picture I hope stick it you know have you ever I haven't seen it yet i'm gonna see it in Washington you with that the White House right president yeah I'm going up to the president mr. president some nice place you have here that's what you usually do it yeah it's a wonderful house I like the grass so you went back there to see you yeah and I went to the movies the other night I've seen two movie I went to movie the other night I went to see my friends and a movie trading places he's very good uh-uh Danny Murphy Eddie Murphy necro and Dan Aykroyd and you going to movies and you start laughing and then they'd be funnier than you want him to be great I mean it's funny then you want you be uh-huh you saw that haha hmm you're really funny yeah hey but it's hysterical man so did I hear ya ok I'm going to killing gonna take break then you're gonna meet Radha ho from England and EMU right after this

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Length: 15min 18sec (918 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 03 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/socks]

Brilliant. Also, this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H2w0qmkNvM

[u/Leatherneck55]

Could a comedian like Pryor even exist in today's PC environment?