'The Ultimate Richard Pryor Collection' exclusive trailer

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See Richard Pryor work his comedy magic in a trailer for a new DVD box set

Video Transcript

RICHARD PRYOR: What you taking my picture for?

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

Who are you going to show it to?

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

Wait a second, I got a picture of Richard Pryor!

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

What's that? Richard Pryor running down the street.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

You like me, don't you?

- Oh, very much.

RICHARD PRYOR: Watch out.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

[AUDIENCE CHEERING]

Sometimes, people just want me to talk nasty to them, right?

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

I had to stop drinking though, because I got tired of, like, waking up in my car, driving 90.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

I ain't worried about television. Mudbone don't give a fuck about television

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

[SCREAMING]

It's enough to make you crazy.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

I'm going to tell y'all all the truth tonight.

[AUDIENCE CLAPPING]

OK? You got to promise not to tell nobody.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

Can I trust you?

AUDIENCE: Yeah!

You's some lying mother fuckers.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

I woke up in an ambulance, right? And it wasn't nothing but white people staring at me.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

I said, ain't this a bitch.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

I done died and wound up in the wrong mother fucking heaven.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

Now I got to listen to Lawrence Welk the rest of my day.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

- Mr. President.

RICHARD PRYOR: Yeah, what?

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

- Mr. Bigby, Mississippi Herald.

RICHARD PRYOR: Sit down.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

We lived in a, I guess, you call it a brothel. We called it a whorehouse.

DICK CAVETT: Yeah.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

Or, uh--

RICHARD PRYOR: But it was home to me.

DICK CAVETT: It was-- [LAUGHING]

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

This story gonna knock you out, OK?

PENELOPE SPHEERIS: It's been lost for 50 years.

- Love you, Richard!

RICHARD PRYOR: Oh.

- [SHRIEKS] Woo!

- Love you, Richard!

RICHARD PRYOR: Love you back, I like that little yell you did. I've heard that somewhere.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

RICHARD PRYOR: [INAUDIBLE]. [LAUGHING]

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

RICHARD PRYOR: I was standing there on fire. And then someone said, why that's a pretty blue.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

You know what, that looks like (SCREAMING) fire!

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

[AUDIENCE CHEERING]