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Article: Comedy superstar Richard Pryor dies at 65.(NATIONAL REPORT)(Obituary)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- December 26, 2005
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Richard Pryor, the revolutionary comedian who used his racy humor to attack racism and stereotypes and inspired and motivated many other comics in the process, has died. He was 65.
Pryor, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1986, died from a heart attack at his home in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles.
He used his own turbulent life for much of his humor, shocking and entertaining audiences at the same time with his liberal use of four-letter expletives and the "N" word. Often, he used wild humor to explain to audiences the differences between Blacks and Whites, pointing out the wide gaps in the way the races approach sex and ...