Known for reaching a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential comedians of all time. His work reshaped american comedy, blending raw personal truth, social critique, vulnerability, and fearless humor 10, 2005, after suffering a third heart attack pryor's legacy.
Richard pryor was a groundbreaking african american comedian and one of the top entertainers of the 1970s and 1980s. Richard franklin lennox thomas pryor was born in 1940 and passed away in 2005 His comedy routines drew on a variety of downtrodden urban characters, rendered with brutal emotional honesty.
