![]() He won Grammys for his groundbreaking, irreverent concert albums “Bicentennial Nigger” and “That Nigger’s Crazy.” And in 1974, he received a writing Emmy for a Lily Tomlin television special. ![]() ![]() Pryor worked as an actor and writer as well as a stand-up comic throughout the 1970s and into the ‘80s. Yet he somehow - often miraculously, it seemed - continued on, even after being diagnosed in 1986 with multiple sclerosis, a disease that robbed him of his trademark physical presence. Pryor had a history both bizarre and grim: self-inflicted burns (1980), a heart attack (1990) and marathon drug and alcohol use (that he finally kicked in the 1990s). ![]() Comedian Keenen Ivory Wayans once said: “Richard Pryor is the groundbreaker.” He “showed us that you can be black and have a black voice and be successful.” ![]()
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