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Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic Page #3
If these were my kids, I would never
have known but for Richard Pryor.
that he paints.
He'd go out and he'd do two minutes,
three minutes - sometimes,
if the wind was right,
he'd do four or five minutes.
Eventually, there'd
be about 40 minutes of material.
In those 40 minutes of material,
he knew then he could get
from there to a concert.
I discovered masturbating
by accident.
I'm not lying.
I was about ten. I was in a tub.
And that's when you used to hold
your dick with two fingers.
Hey!
I'm on to something here.
I bet Dad don't know about this.
He understood how to excavate
the human soul on stage
in front of 600 people
without blinking.
First time I came to ejaculate,
it scared the f*** out of me.
I thought something was wrong.
I just went, this woman, "Look,
what the f*** you've done there!"
About an hour later, I was back.
"Can you do it again?"
I'm in love with,
I know Richard Pryor
would just f*** the sh*t out of her.
He'd f*** her in every orifice
of her body.
Can I...? Is there anywhere this guy
didn't f***ing put his prints on?
Richard had become big
in the live concert,
doing his brand of risque humour.
These large audiences
were fascinated with Richard.
He had not crossed into film.
Somehow, Berry Gordy
tracked him down and wanted him
to audition for the role
of Piano Man in the film
he was about to do of Billie Holiday,
which was going to star Diana Ross.
Lady Sings The Blues, when Richard
auditioned, they let him do improv.
You can't let Richard to improv,
he'll steal the show.
Which he did. The rest is history.
Everybody got
a room full of girls at home.
You're just going to be another one.
Billie, you've got too much going.
You don't need this.
He was huge in Lady Sings The Blues.
It sealed it for him
in terms of his performance
to see more of him.
We're coming.
That part got bigger
and bigger and bigger.
By the time they finished
cutting that movie,
Richard was co-star in that movie.
I met him in '72. He wasn't that
famous, but the word was out.
I said to him, why don't you meet me
for breakfast? He said, "Breakfast.
"OK. I'll meet you at four."
I said, "Four?!"
I told him about a black sheriff
in 1874. He loved the idea.
He just loved it.
I said, "I'm going to fight for you
to be the lead in Blazing Saddles."
I said, "Look, I'm going to write it
like a gang comedy.
"Anybody got a good idea, it's in.
We're all going to be equal.
"I will be a little more equal
than anybody else,
"but we're all going to be equal
and we're all going to have fun.
"I want you to be
one of the writers."
He called me up.
And said, "Listen, I would like
to be the star of that film,
"Blazing Saddles.
That would be terrific."
This is going to be something big.
I wrote most of the black jokes,
and Richard wrote
most of the Mongo jokes.
He was like this big, tough baby.
"Mongo only pawn in game of life."
wacky lines.
The next day, he showed
up in my apartment with cigars
and a very expensive Dunhill
lighter, and I said, "What's this?"
He said, "We're going to be signing
a lot of contracts."
Somebody high up at Warner Brothers
had heard
and Richard was unreliable
and I was fighting.
He said, "We appreciate
his contribution as a writer.
"It's the starring role.
We won't star him in the picture."
It got to the f***ing board
of Warner Brothers,
where he lost on some vote,
and that was it. You know.
He wished that he got
the starring role.
That was a disappointment,
a major disappointment.
Just put him over the edge
when they said that.
And he became high,
so high and out of control.
So he decided to shoot up the house.
We had a huge saltwater fish tank -
150 gallons. It was huge.
And, of course, it killed
all the fish and buckled the floor
and shot the Charlie Parker painting
that was hanging above the fireplace.
A huge Charlie Parker painting.
He shot him in the heart.
It's really hard
to live in Hollywood.
It's so controlled by white men.
Very hard to do anything, because
they're so greedy. So insecure.
He decided he was going to fire
everyone and start all over.
New lawyers, new agent, new manager.
He called Ron
and just said it was over.
I mean, it was a pretty harsh,
cold moment.
So, what became
of the change of heart?
He said, "I don't know, man.
Just did."
I puzzled over that
for many, many years.
I don't movies when they don't have
no N*ggers in them.
I went to see Logan's Run, right.
They had a movie of the future
called Logan's Run,
and there ain't no N*ggers in it.
I said, "Well, white folks
ain't planning for us to be here."
That's why we've got to make movies.
David was a very powerful black
manager, based out of Atlanta.
Very militant. Very pro-black.
Very, very smart.
A gift for making huge deals
and huge money.
David Franklin was a pudgy,
brilliant, black man, who stuttered.
He said, "Because he st-st-utters,
he can ge-get sympathy."
So, David went on to manage Richard,
be his agent and act as his lawyer.
Other than Richard's pure talent,
David was absolutely responsible for
Richard becoming really big in film.
We did nine or ten pictures together.
The first of them, The Bingo Long
Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings,
about the Negro National Leagues.
Like batting averages.
See, you take the number of times
a man been in bat
and you divide that by the number
of times a man got a hit.
Like me, I've been in bat 100 times.
I've got 25 hits. That's simple.
25 goes into 100 four times. It
gives me a batting average of four.
That's wrong.
That ain't no way to do that.
The second film was Car Wash.
I wasn't going to make
Believe in the Lord and, most of
all, believe in that federal dream.
I remember the day that David came
back from a meeting with Richard,
driving a brand-new Rolls-Royce.
He must have been doing something
that was making Richard pretty happy
for Richard to give him
a brand-new Rolls-Royce as a gift.
Right at that moment,
the lead in a picture was a totally
unproven notion.
Take this radio.
When you step out of here,
you got
to step out of here like king sh*t.
Right, you bad.
Put that radio to your ear.
That's going to help cover
your face.
Just move with the rhythm
of the music.
Move your body
with the rhythm of the music.
That's all you've got to do now.
Let me see you try.
Step to the music.
Step to the music. Yeah.
Step to the music. Stop.
How come you whities got such
a tight ass, man? Do it.
Can't you feel it?
He basically launched a new genre
of comedy.
Interracial buddy comedy.
This was a new kind of formula
for comedy in Hollywood.
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