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[@telmonk003]

I want everyone to remember this was before movies like Goodfellas and Casino. He was so authentic with the impressions.

[@francus7227]

More like Harlem Nights...

[@rarerod74]

I was like that is the Goodfellas screen play !! Richard Pryor is truly of voice of a culture timeless !

[@Jpeezy-ds1ce]

Never thought about that. This was before all those movies

[@richinoable]

So well acted. Top level funny, but you know it's from a truth he experienced directly

[@aidanmagill6769]

​@@francus7227 such an under-rated film, he and Eddie Murphy are both brilliant in it.

[@kimurajack8364]

"Fry it up, they like fried food." 😂😂

[@RobertBoyle11]

A fuckin kid can you believe that shit ahhhahaha

[@lesleyd2448]

😂

[@Daddywood2230]

lol, blacks do love fried food!

[@richardhart9204]

... and put a little scongini on it. LOL!

[@flintsky7706]

Get him a little sanini farolla

[@dukewinfield4741]

“Wait a minute, Rich do the gun again.” 🤣🤣🤣

[@cavalierfan1995]

hey tony STICK-UP AHHHH HA HA HA HA

[@dukewinfield4741]

@@cavalierfan1995 LMAO! 🤣🤣🤣

[@lesleyd2448]

Lol

[@fredbraxton5092]

😂😂

[@thashittv2885]

You Funny Af for pointing that out 😆

[@pacifistidentitarian549]

"Who is it Carmine ? Tell him I'll call him back .....tell him its a stick up 😂😂😂😂 "

[@oNedrous_oNe]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@sanguinecynic8529]

I don’t get it

[@tonygrace3435]

Yeah look him up

[@maureenrodts7769]

GOOGLE PRYOR AND CARMINE...you had to be there 😅

[@demonicsweaters]

Richard Pryor was probably the best storyteller standup to ever live. His delivery was so natural and just hilarious.

[@pifflepockle]

Billy Connolly

[@LeonAllanDavis]

Bill Cosby was way better. Timing was exquisite. Flip Wilson was a great story teller. His Leroy the Cop stories were classics.

[@michaelbrock4048]

Him and Billy Connolly. The best because they came from nothing

[@mannkris1]

Billy Connolly

[@aakarshchaudhary7359]

he is the most talented, you know what happened to the people who stepped to mafia without being funny, you don't see them anymore

[@nathangoddard8115]

This is 40 years old and funny as hell. A timeless comedian.

[@cheezeeanyone]

So true. Richard was for real, no holding back. Will never be another.

[@VANNYRAMS]

Search up Rodney dangerfield, now that’s timeless money

[@brawlmaster127]

Richard was a genius so fucking funny😂😂

[@yingyang1615]

“We’re crime and crime don’t pay”😂

[@yankee2666]

That's because they funded the restaurant owner's business.

[@oimelgoimel]

​@@yankee2666u mean they pay protectional fees?^^

[@cesarfernandez8779]

My favorite line in this whole bit…right next to “wait till it melts asshole” hahaha

[@user-ul7og5up4v]

In my opinion Richard Pryor was the funniest man ever in comedy!❤❤❤

[@HariMorni]

"Johnny Salami, what do I do?" "Wait 'til it melts, asshole!" Always makes me 🤣, every time.

[@karriemburton9024]

When you think martial arts you think bruce lee, when you think basketball, think michael Jordan, when you think comedy you think richard pryor

[@Bae_Cop2027]

The dancer, Toni "Satin Doll" Elling died on April 2, 2023, at the age of 94!!!

[@urdynamix]

"Come Here You Fucking Kid" 🤣🤣🤣

[@ereynacarde-borre6803]

"Whatsa matter Rich? You don't look so good." 🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥

[@SteveBerryhill]

My great Uncle was a made guy. As an Italian American I can attest to his stories.

[@ereynacarde-borre6803]

@@SteveBerryhill Wow 😳 so I bet you have some really wild stories to tell too 🤣

[@SteveBerryhill]

@@ereynacarde-borre6803 As a matter of fact...I do. My grandfather in the 1930's older brother Guido (I swear) was makin' his bones and drove up in a brand new car. He offered to pay my Grandfather (16 at the time) $10 to drive the car across town and park in a certain spot. My trepidatious grandfather inspected the car and then, to Guido's objection, opened the trunk. There was a body wrapped in a carpet. My Grand father refused the offer. It's what kept him out of the mob. My Great Uncle Guido went on to control all the farm labor unions in Central California. True story.

[@ereynacarde-borre6803]

@@SteveBerryhill 😲😲😲 Wow! That is quite a story! It's a good thing he looked in the trunk.

[@mdaddy775]

He's not only hilarious but when you watch him, you feel happy for him that he found such big success... he earned it!

[@shaunjenson5584]

Yep

[@SilencedRage]

Red Foxx, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy Real Original KINGS of Comedy. 👑 👑 👑

[@rwiconcepts4492]

Mike Epps...I'm just reaching. I noticed you said "Original Kings.."😂

[@stephaniehowell1109]

Yes...and Fluffy!!!! 😂😂😂😂 (Gabriel Iglesias)

[@louisrauzi3872]

As an Italian American , I am not offended. Funny as hell.

[@kingkongkong8316]

So you’re not in the mafia but work for them ?

[@roccoz2231]

"He's gotta pair of gugoozi's on him, ahh!"

[@gulgul2006]

I lost it when he said that!!! It's actually gullions (but people pronounce it wrong all the time. "Gugoozis" or "Cool-Yahns" but it is "Ghoul-yoons" So if you ever want to sound authentic, now you know :D

[@humanforotherhumanst4619]

​@@gulgul2006and I thought he was using an italian term!

[@fossilqexplorist2578]

@@humanforotherhumanst4619 Yeah it is actually Italian but it's proper language and means testicles. Not balls. English We say balls which to a foreigner would mean like the object (basket ball baseball etc) so it isn't some colloquial where it means something else in their language but used to described testicles. It is actually the word for it.

[@laurajane4806]

A true gauge of talent is timelessness!! I was 22 in 1982 and remember this show on HBO. Everybody I knew loved Richard Pryor.

[@itsjustme8947]

Same here! I was also AT the Vegas show! Priceless! I was one of the 'whities' in the audience that he picked on because I was there with a 'sistah'! He said "Sistah, you here with whitey tonight? What, you get tired of taking a REAL dick or was you lookin' for a relationship with insurance?" I've never been happier to be picked on in my entire life! Sadly, this was edited out of the show .

[@noblemann4898]

I'm from the UK and Richard Pryor's late 1970s concert - the one where he is wearing a red shirt - was aired late at night. I love my comedy, but that was the first and only time I have ever cried with laughter. 😂

[@idanben-barak9920]

Even the Mob loved Richard Pryor.

[@Hallands.]

He had me in stitches when I was a teen but he wore a bit thin as I matured. His genius consisted of two things mainly, an eye for racial tensions and the complete shamelessness which made him the eternal victim and never the villain…

[@itsjustme8947]

@@Hallands. When was he the villain?

[@johnclerk666]

"Who is that Camine?, tell him I'll call him back, tell him it's a stick up" 🤣🤣😂

[@kingfame_]

That’s why he’s the goat. He started it all. He paved the way for everyone that came after him

[@jaimewalls8416]

Yup, greatest comedian ever.

[@danielbrown3461]

He was influenced by Jackie Gleason...the goat.

[@kingfame_]

@@markasread4349 he most definitely did. To the level he took it. Being in movies. How big he was as a standup comedian. He started it all

[@danielbrown3461]

Rodney Dangerfield was better@@markasread4349

[@marshawnbooker8317]

None better....

[@FlexWheeler88]

"you on your way home? you want us to give you a ride?" 🤣🤣🤣

[@RayfieldA]

Because he was speaking from Experience, you can't and shouldn't be offended. And you gotta admit that was the best impression of an Ol Skool Mobster!

[@JamesSmith-qb3be]

I lived in Youngstown back in the day this story is so accurate the stories I've heard from the OG'S . Youngstown was and still is no joke.

[@72pgregoire]

The original “KING” of comedy

[@choppwhite4189]

THEE KING OF COMEDY!

[@JJA_88]

@@choppwhite4189 Hands down

[@ginafriend1690]

🙌 ABSOLUTELY!! 🙌 The Best!

[@namer6914]

100%

[@williamfernandini967]

A man before his time. Just a comedy legend

[@robberezowski68]

How so?

[@gregbors8364]

“Before his time” (?) He was a huge star. They even wrote a terrible Superman movie script just so he could be in it.

[@williamfernandini967]

@@gregbors8364 meant his comedy was like nothing people were doin back then

[@gregbors8364]

@@williamfernandini967 It’s actually a lot like Red Foxx’s act from the 1950’s and ‘60’s

[@xavierharding8938]

That makes no sense at all. He was a man during his time.

[@tonigon5767]

So many artists today, stood on the shoulders of this GIANT. I love his work. May he be RIP. Respect.

[@edhamredza4854]

The way he's telling the story is just perfect.

[@maleaeavenson3625]

It's true.

[@KingKenny.]

When a man is a genuis at his art , he and his art will live forever ! Richard Pryor will live forever !

[@tulsacaupain2882]

Hear Hear

[@Legofromthelowerlands020]

They paid everybody off… But kept me 😂😂😂😂😂

[@karelvdstaar1183]

Telling a Joke like this, while the mob was that powerful, that took some balls 🤣 respect.

[@janblount]

Yup, and he was IN VEGAS

[@blackcaesar4u]

They are-still powerful. I grew up in Youngstown

[@vegaswillie]

Took a pair of gagoozzies.

[@y-unespynchonesky9708]

Oscar Wilde once said: 'If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.' Mr. Pryor being the funniest, and a masterful storyteller helped, I guess.

[@SopranoPizzaJMFNJ]

The Boys LOVE this type of PR. Pryor made the wise guys money by telling people to be fearful of wise guys. An interesting combination of balls & brilliance if you ask me.

[@oliverrojo7166]

"And the f***ing ice pick BREAKS! Haaaaaaaaaahaaaahaaaa" Oh man makes me cry of laughing everytime 😂

[@PanzerMold]

I am certain any surviving mobster absolutely adores this joke about them.

[@Rescue162]

The G.O.A.T. This skit explains to young people why Pryor was the GOAT.

[@aaronw8781]

“Ice pick’s my thing Rich”.😅

[@ididyermom3273]

Silver Streak is a movie that still now has me rolling on the floor, literally! He was brilliant and get him with the right costar like Gene Wilder and it was just pure magic!

[@menzicosce]

“How come all you who ties for such a right ass man?”

[@garyfallows1123]

I watched this whole show on VHS video back in 85 when I was in hospital, I was laughing so much everything hurt, by the end I didn't know if I was laughing at him or because of the pain I was in with my injury 😂😂😂, he was a comedy genius and way ahead of his time

[@banks8514]

How great is comedy. It’s the greatest gift ever made being laughter.

[@maleaeavenson3625]

Laughter is good medicine.

[@saingmckinnon6631]

😂😂😂

[@raepaul8158]

His father was a real bad ass and all that is real . Richard overcame a lot to be a comedy legend ! Great talent .

[@chappyramirez4532]

I've heard this bit so many times and I still laugh! Never gets old!

[@robertdore9592]

Richard Pryor is the very first selection for my Comedy Mount Rushmore; the man was without peer to my mind.

[@jaymo8206]

Gotta have Groucho Marx on the Mt. Rushmore of comedy too.

[@gregbors8364]

GOAT 🐐 of stand-up

[@danielbrown3461]

The Marx Brothers were better. They paved the way for Pryor. And also Jackie Gleason.

[@dadaevan]

💯💯💯

[@georgerafael]

this bit he did is better and truer to life than any gangster picture you'd care to name. hell, should've been a movie!

[@jarilouhelainen51]

He was a true genius of comedy. Cannot get enough of him.

[@cletusjones9411]

“Hey Jeff, I remember when I showed you how to drive.” Richard Pryor could make anything funny.

[@KTKZon58]

Jeff: 😐

[@GrimeyCrimes]

Satin Doll was around in 2010/2012 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin she had a bar that was grandfathered in that could stay open like 24 hours. i was in milwaukee for work and one of my co-workers brings me to her bar, where she’s holding court at 4 am over the bar mantle was a huge photo of her in her prime framed. she tells us how Duke Ellington named a sing after her. and how she know a who’s who of all walks of life we stayed until about 7am talking to her and her daughters. lifetime memory, & now to see this bit to confirm some of her stories is great to see!! her place was on West Fond du Lac Avenue

[@zora_noamflannery2548]

- Lucky you.

[@mja91352]

Duke Ellington did NOT write "Satis Doll"; Bill Strayhorn did

[@user-jy4ih7dj7j]

The way he's telling the story is just perfect.. “Wait a minute, Rich do the gun again.” .

[@jaymo8206]

I was laughing my ass off so hard I could barely catch my breath. Long Live Richard Pryor.

[@saingmckinnon6631]

😂😂😂

[@davidevans6131]

Me2 😂

[@hugohackenbush1554]

I was blessed to have seen Richard Pryor live. All I can say is that there are not enough superlatives to describe just how good he was. Nuff said.

[@annrodriguez2891]

You were truly blessed.Pryor was the KING

[@hugohackenbush1554]

@@annrodriguez2891 Thank you very much. Richard Pryor was the best. Not one comic, apart from Geg Giraldo and Bill Hicks, has come even close to the master. Imagine a packed out club and the MC announces those three as your acts!!!

[@danielbrown3461]

The Marx brothers were better.

[@hugohackenbush1554]

@@danielbrown3461 I grew up on the Marx Brothers. My grandfather was blessed to have been friends with Harpo and Groucho. No one comes close to them in terms of comedy on the big screen, however, Richard Pryor was the king of stand up. He took it to a level that only Dave Chappelle, Billy'Boy'Burr and maybe Jeselnik are approaching. "Marry me and I'll never look at another horse."

[@danielbrown3461]

Not Nuff said...The Marx Brothers paved his way and had a massive inpact on him. He himself said so. Plus he said himself the 3 Stooges were better.

[@wmsmith7346]

40 years ago and he is just cracking me up still 😂 Gold.

[@jh230377]

A true comedy legend. RIP Richard Pryor!!

[@davemiller6055]

This man was the greatest comedian the world has ever seen. Pryor was so unbelievably talented. I remember watching this on cable back in the 80s. I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe.

[@LIONTAMER3D]

He set the greatest mold for others to follow

[@Mrfairchap]

When he started doing his "best black shit" I just lost it! Very, very funny man. RIP Richard.

[@smartacious]

“What’s the matter Rich you don’t look so good” 😂

[@kathrynbrandt4014]

I will never forget Richard Pryor. He was a comic genius and lovable no matter what he said!

[@GeorgeMorgan6600]

@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

[@edwardlatourette5927]

There are a lot of guys that did standup over the years; some of them were incredibly talented. Richard was in the conversation with ANYBODY.

[@maleaeavenson3625]

Anybody and everyone.

[@angeloRiv]

Wow - I always knew he was a genius, but his range is breathtaking. He was well ahead of his time.

[@user-hp1ou3nb7t]

He and George Carlin were the top two comedians of their generation.

[@AmariMarvelous]

​​@@user-hp1ou3nb7t I agree 💯. They're two of the greatest comedians with Richard coming out on top and George usually comes in at 2nd place.

[@AmariMarvelous]

And just to think when Richard first hit the scene many critics were comparing him to Bill Cosby in which he said himself he was inspired by him. Once Richard started being himself and cussing in his standups, that's when he took off and never went back.

[@garylawson5381]

My late uncles on my momma's side of the family cracked up over this Richard Pryor skit. I miss them all. Thanks for sharing!

[@jasonmarchese4942]

Could you imagine how hard the real mafia laughed at this material....lol The laugh is spot on . .This was when we could still laugh at each other....lol

[@ireneugeba5282]

I love this comedy skit. Richard Pryor was a great comedian and story teller.

[@GeorgeMorgan6600]

@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

[@stevendilello3144]

A lot of people nowadays won’t get that this is one of the greatest bits of all times. Another comedian could makeup a more outrageous story but Pryor lived it. Even great comedians write stuff down but you can tell that he’s so good he was telling the story in the moment! The timing and the energy doesn’t lie. Pryor is the greatest

[@RenegadeRanga]

Richard pryor is a legend and was a genius. "This fucken kid." "And they kept me, like a pet"

[@stephenle-surf9893]

😂😂😂😂 I just love the idea that for the remaining time he was at that club he was easily the safest black man in the world. 😂😂😂f##King kid àaaaaahàaaaaah!

[@vinrho123]

The best thing about this clip is it reminded me how my Dad would laugh at these jokes. It brought back vivid memories like I could see him and hear him laugh. It was the best! Miss you Dad and thank you to the GOAT for making us laugh even through the toughest times!

[@istast]

Hey Vin, I am the Dad now. So I need to laugh for my kids and theirs -- knowing that you and kids like you, actually do care. I am a terminal dad and you have given me inspiration to share laughter and to thank the Eternal Father of Free Will and laughter.

[@davidevans6131]

Miss ya pops but I will carry the torch. ❤ RIP Don Ronaldo and RIP Pop Don❤🇮🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@Blindeyedog]

My hero. I started doing stand-up because of Mr. Pryor. RIP!

[@davidreitter4457]

Seen Richard Pryor in a Italian Nite Club in Steubenville Ohio just down the river from the mafia night club.

[@Wavemaninawe]

"You got a family? Well you got family now." 😂🤣

[@GrayNeko]

RIP, Richard Pryor. Gone, but never forgotten!

[@akxsmittz6881]

I used to sneek in my moms record stash& listen to this as a youth in 80's!!

[@8woldy8]

He was the best. I saw him live in San Francisco in about 1973.

[@LIONTAMER3D]

Lucky you, comedy is nowhere near this good in 2024

[@delancyj67]

I saw this on VHS thirty years ago and watched clips of this same joke for decades and it's still funny every time.

[@priscamolotsi]

Richard Pryor was. BRILLIANT. Funny as heck and didn’t have to rely on crassness and four-letter words throughout his jokes! Today’s comedians could learn a lot from him!!

[@th1ssucks]

He definitely has range. A lot of his material was considered very edgy at the time but the guy also was on Sesame Street! G.O.A.T.

[@elguapo1507]

😂🤣😂🤣 I absolutely loved Richard Pryor! Genius! 😂🤣😂

[@RyanMrTsunamiBishop]

The G.OA.T.!!! 💪🏾💯✊🏾 There's still nobody better than Richard Pryor!

[@jeffreypetersen2474]

His affection for the Mafia guys and Satin Doll is so funny.

[@johncantyjr1327]

My favorite and the best comedian to ever step foot on stage. Richard Pryor is still alive. Love ya Big Daddy Rich

[@squarewave808]

Best standup comedian of all time right there. A legend. RIP Rich.

[@user-up5tc1yi3f]

"you carry we bury" 😂😂

[@tylerward6723]

I still miss good comedians and actors like Richard. RIP brother.

[@haroldbobotis9438]

Before Dave Chapelle, lest we forget, Richard Pryor was, is and ALWAYS SHALL BE THE O.G. G.O.A.T. STAND UP COMEDIAN OF ALL TIME.

[@raoufbasit]

I can't stop watching this clip. What a legend

[@johncox2912]

One of THE best comedians of all time.

[@SilencedRage]

The Original King of Comedy 👑.

[@dustinclark3390]

Pryor was in a league of his own among comedians

[@lhart99]

Hands down, one of the most epic stand-up bites of all time.

[@frankbartoszak7637]

When I was a young teenager me and my buddies listened to old Richard Pryor albums, way before he became popular, funny as hell,rip genius

[@agodinho64]

I saw this in the movie theater, before it was on HBO. Long, long ago. Never forgot this routine.

[@shaserv]

The funny thing is this story is probably true.

[@OlliGarch]

I love Pryor. I saw all his movies and had records of his standup. True genius.

[@kimowilliams7032]

The original King of Comedy! RIP Richard ❤❤❤

[@stavivanackerson6563]

All the funny skits he wrote for "Sanford and Son", Blazing Saddles, The Kentucky Fried Movie.... The list goes on and on!!!! WE DEARLY MISS YOU MR. PRYOR!!!!....

[@tolfan4438]

His imitation of a good guy getting stuck up is so spot on

[@peterm1826]

He nailed it. the with the mafia story. Lol.

[@knicknack4511]

“What’s the matter Rich you don’t look so good, ahh ahh ahh” 😂😂😂

[@rpmazzella]

The king of comedy we miss your Richard

[@nicholasphillips3240]

I'm half Italian and mafia or not this is spot on especially with the grabbing and giving him and rubbing his head I love the ice pick part

[@marstondavis]

Richard Pryor was one of the most intelligent performers to ever grace the stage. Funny? Absolutely. Smart? You bet!

[@krokodyl1927]

Lol, Richard Pryor was the very best comedian back in the day!! ‘you carry we bury’ ‘you stab’em we slab’em’ 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@carnitasheppard4591]

That man is SO amazing. His stand up is STILL the best ever, even with all since him having the advantage of having seen/heard him. Such a RARE thing, crazy.

[@davonjohnson6117]

Just the number 1' best standup to ever live! He left the world way to early. 'Genius'

[@Brocktoon68]

This is the absolute mastery of the craft.

[@user-ze9dd9cm3e]

I can't even put into words,this standup joke,I don't think it's a joke.But it's hilarious,his physical motions,the voice. The material.Wow

[@CherieulaJ]

He replayed this scene in "Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling" 💗❤️💗👏🏾🤗

[@diogenes.]

Pryor is the mohammed ali of stand up comedy, no matter how good you are, how much you achieve ,never make it to his level, just a league of his own, what a legend

[@user-dw2fg1ty6f]

Johnny Salami. 😂😂😂