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Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic Page #5
it's Pamela there
and here's Richard
with this other woman.
There was a prompt card,
and it had plastic flowers on.
I shoved it
in the middle of the cake,
to blur out Pam and Richard.
A lot of people were surprised
because it did come out of,
sort of come out of nowhere.
There were many women
in Richard's life.
I recognised and he told me this,
that they wouldn't be around
that long.
This is about the time
I'd been married,
and it was really exciting
because I really am trying,
I really am trying.
I'm telling you I'm f***ing trying,
OK?
But it's hard to wake up and see the
same person all the f***ing time.
Richard had, I done forgotten now.
Eight, nine, 12 wives. I don't know.
But I know that all of them was what
they was to him when they was.
Was once was.
Richard had a pimp's mentality.
He pretends like he's controllable.
He's like a spider.
That's to lure you in till you get
caught in the web.
Richard had a compulsion
to be married,
because he didn't want to be alone.
But once he would marry,
It would be gone because he won. If
he wanted you, you had that power.
And usually that would
just about last until he got you.
And then it would be time to go
after another woman.
And that was the game with Richard.
Then the whole
fun of the game was,
"How do I get this b*tch
out of my house?"
I was the best man at a wedding
with Jennifer in Hana, Maui.
And the next morning after
the wedding, I was in my room,
and about seven in the morning,
there is a knock on the door.
I go and open the door,
and there's Richard Pryor.
I said, "Richard, what are you doing
here at seven in the morning?"
And he says, "I want a divorce."
No, I'd like to die like my father
died.
Right, my father died f***ing.
He did. My father was 57 when
he died, right. The woman was 18.
My father came and went
at the same time.
Would you like to introduce our next
guest? Yes, who? Your grandmother.
Oh, man, don't do that.
I'm told that you run
a pool hall. Yes, I do.
time in the pool hall?
Yes, he used to come down there
They used to cuss in the pool
room before she took over.
Now the language is, "Why you..."
I keep them in their place.
See, I'm an old lady
and I stay in old ladies place
and they must respect me, isn't that right?
That's exactly right.
APPLAUSE:
I remember meeting Marie Carter.
She's a grandmother
that you see in books.
She had the long white hair
and she was dressed very smart.
I bow to her. And this old b*tch
hit me in my chest so hard.
Boom!
And I felt the breath leave out
and before I let her hit me again,
And he started laughing at me.
She'd laugh like it was
the funniest sh*t she had seen.
And Richard stood to the left and he
said, "That's my grandmother, man."
I was born Richard Franklin Lennox
Thomas Pryor III.
I got names from pimps
and gangsters.
Grew up seeing my mother
go into rooms with men
and my aunties go into rooms
with men.
I remember tricks used to come
through our neighbourhood.
white people.
They come down through our
neighbourhood to help the economy.
Man, but I met nice white men.
"Hello, little boy, is your mother
home? I'd like a blowj*b."
When he told us about it, we
laughed. "Get the f*** out of here.
And when you realise it really
happened. It wasn't jokes.
It makes us, if you didn't have that
experience go, "What is that like?"
And how do you maintain love?
His uncle and his daddy were pimps.
I'm talking about not no play pimps,
real pimps.
Them guys would pimp a Barbie doll.
"B*tch, go out and get the money."
The grandmother was the madam
in chief of the whole operation.
Basically, keep the girls in line.
Keep the johns in line.
That's when I realised who she was.
In terms of this is the whole house,
she runs everything.
You know, she lived in the south
side in Peoria
the door unlocked.
People knew you're not coming
up in this house.
You know if you do come up in the house,
you know what's going to happen.
The grandmother was
the matriarch of the family,
upon whom everybody else's
survival depended.
She was Richard's nurturer,
the punisher, the disciplinarian.
Everything rolled into one.
My grandmother would wake my ass up,
you know.
"Get your ass, put your hand up.
Don't you run from me.
"Don't you run... from... me."
You were 15 years old when your first
child was born? Yeah. Yeah.
How could you... It was fun.
And then after she was born?
I didn't know my father was
making love to her too.
And I was standing in the dining
room crying.
My mother said,
"What's wrong with the boy, Bucky?"
My father said,
"Ain't nothing wrong with him.
"He got some girl pregnant."
I think, when you grow
up around a bordello, you see
people at their very core, in a way.
There's no facade,
there's no masks on.
I don't know what it was
that made me that way,
Nothing was too sad, some humour
could not be found in it.
His sensitivity made him
so brilliant as a comedian.
But some things were so painful
that he wanted to be somewhere else.
I think if you are a sensitive
type that it...
that you self-medicate.
It's easier to self-medicate.
I snorted cocaine for about 15
years. I must have snorted up Peru.
He'd do a line and drink some
Courvoisier. That's lunch.
Go back to work.
Watching Dad doing drugs, you know,
doing some lines or smoking...
those were things
that you didn't really question.
Listen, I was doing so much,
I embarrassed cocaine dealers.
They would say,
"Richard, man, God damn.
"Well, how much do you want?"
"Kilo.
"Just for the weekend."
A lot of people came to the house
to play cards, hang out.
For the drugs, of course,
because he bought coke by the key.
Low-lifes, drug dealers,
card people, hookers.
I don't like cocaine, I love it.
And that's why
I have to stay away from it.
I enjoyed it for a long time.
Maybe you want to change
your whole life
and you swear tomorrow
I'll never do this again.
Success doesn't change you.
It only magnifies
who you've been all your life.
And success magnified
the kid from Peoria with Richard.
But now he had endless money,
endless fame.
which he did with some frequency,
he thought that that betrayal
belonged to everyone else.
If he was in a particularly
good mood
and he was being nice to everybody,
he could charm
anyone on the set and then he would
go home that night and stew
and say, "What kind of Tom am I?
I'm everybody's black pal."
And the next day, he would be mean.
Richard was about
13 different personalities.
Nine of them you could deal with.
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