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Richard Pryor: Humor
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"I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, 'Ain't that the truth!' Richard Pryor is the truth machine. He has taken black street humor to its highest universal level." -- Quincy Jones
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In recent years, Pryor's public appearances were limited, though he was often honored for his work. He received the NAACP Hall of Fame Award in 1996 and was the initial recipient of the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Humor in 1998. In 1995, he appeared with daughter Rain in an episode of the medical drama Chicago Hope as a patient with multiple sclerosis.
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Perhaps the best demonstration of this was Mr. Pryor's notorious use of obscenity. Swearing was as much a prop for him as waving a cane was for Charlie Chaplin or smoking a cigar for Groucho Marx. It's a measure of Mr. Pryor's achievement that he may be considered the peer of such comic legends. Appropriately, he was the first recipient of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Mark Twain Prize for humor, in 1998.
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