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Article: Richard Pryor: comedy legend 1940-2005.(Obituary)(Cover Story)
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- Jet
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- January 9, 2006
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They are calling Richard Pryor the funniest man who ever lived. And actually that's not an exaggeration, his fans say.
No one could make you laugh as loud or as hard as Pryor. You could not sit down and listen to his raunchy brand of humor and not chuckle. And the person next to you would start laughing too. That was the magic of Richard Pryor. He made you laugh out loud, at yourself, at him, it didn't matter. He was pure fun. Richard Pryor was "the man" in comedy.
Pryor, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 1986, recently died of a heart attack at his home in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles (JET, Dec.26, 2005-Jan. 2, 2006). ...