>> richard pryor is the most honest.tell his audience everything. >> i want set eddie murphy and michael jackson within two months, and eddie murphy was better. >> that kind of broke my heart. >> let me talk about heroes. charlie chaplin. >> he blazed his own trail. he did exactly what he wanted to do. >> and he was funny. >> he was hysterical. he pretty much made what comedy was in its time. when he is a hero. but she is more than a hero. he is who you want to be. >> in some aspects. [laughter] >> he is. >> that is what we all want. we all want a woody allen deal. we can cast anybody we want. re-shoots are in the budget. we have total autonomy. we also what to be that good. i am striving to be that good. keep pushing the envelope. when you represent black talent, if you're not making history, you are not doing anything. have to be, ok, what am i am not allowed to do? let's do that. let's make a movie that goes to toronto and is a hit that is also funny and dramatic. >> we are going to have a woman president. she is goin

me -- they would like to see the project sponsor make an effort to document the history of the site pryor to demolition. at this time i would like to remind all speakers this is not a hearing to consider approval or disaproval of the proposed projected. approval hearings will follow the final eir/eis certification. your comments today should be confined to the adequacy and accuracy of information and analysis within the draft eir/eis. the comments will be transcribed by the court reporter and responded to in the responses to comments document. this document will respond to all verbal and written comments received and make revisions to the draft eir/eis as appropriate. i would like to remind commenters to speak slowly and clearly, so that the court reporter can produce an adequate transcript of today's hearing. also commentsers should state their name and address for the record to be sent copies once it is completed. after hearing comments from the general public we'll take comments on the draft eir/eis from the planning commission. would i note that the public review process began on nove

richard pryor went through the same thing where ok, he was on ed sullivan, he was on these other shows that the panthers was happening and soul train is happening and i am richard pryor. >> he went to africa. >> i had to reinvent myself. >> you seem to have had the sense that -- of connection to your own blackness. you want people to populate the audience because what? >> when i do an hbo special, i kind of insist on an all-black audience area the reason i insist, i have done to specials at the apollo and the last one was in south africa. because, sometimes i do things that are critical of black culture or of my people as a whole. when you do jokes like that, it is important to cut to a black face laughing to signal that this is not racist because lack people can be racist against their own people too. >> you did nine minutes on that. >> we can be just as racist as anyone else. it is to relax the audience and i do not know. black people left better than white people. you hear -- i love that. when they are really into it it is the mouth in the belly and the feet. white people left from

see richard pryor live on the sunset strip my first movie considering pryor's language and comedy. richard pryor i come to appreciate him all these years later perhaps, mo so that an dr. king, which is anoth conversation, richard pryor was freest black men i ever known. he was a black man free enough to speak and live his truth. muhammad ali probably shares at same bill. just free, just a free black man. i always aspired to be as free as i can be. freedom by any other definition ability to tell the truth even when you catch hell for telling it. you have to be a free black man or free white man or anybody be willing to speak the truth atever the consequences are you deal with it. that i ultimate freedom. i respect pryor for that. second mov was "purple rain" with prince. i remember these things vividly. because i never had a chance to experience those things until i got to college. >>ost: back at iu here, the death of denver smith galvanized the black student population of ui -- iu. who is that? >> guest: since i've been 12 i've been learning everying i can about dr. king. i read ev

stronger and of all my group and i never realized, i was the last to break through and my group was pryornd woody allen. >> i figured if a lord wanted the woman to cook, he would give her aluminum hands. >> she married edgar rosenberg in 1964. he would manage her here and he would be the focus of his wife's joke. >> i moved into edgar's apartment which was a mistake. it is a man's apartment. a lot of leather and chains. >> the pair had one daughter together, melissa. >> we had a rule that i never was away more than five days. ever. baby, as we used to call melissa. i blew through the night to be a scout mother. i won't wear the lousy outfit. >> you would come home? >> i thought i was always there. there was always a parent in the house. >> in 1965, rivers saw her career get a huge boost when she appeared on "the tonight show with johnny carson" for the first time. >> he gave all of us our start. my life changed. i went on the show the first time, seven years of struggling out of second city. on the air, he said, you will be a star and the next day, my life was different. >> the start of a

pryor was at the edge.rust he put his arm up, basically a reflex movement to protect his face. the chainsaw went forward it cut him. it appeared to be very minimal contact, but obviously the weapon is so serious that it caused a very nasty injury. the wound had gone right down to the bone. >> then the disturbed man decides to leave the pub. once he's back out on the street, someone calls the police. but the pub's patrons aren't about to let him get away. so they decide to take the law into their own hands. >> a few of the people in the horseshoe area, if you like, they picked up bar furniture stools and chased him outside. >> the exterior security camera captures a lone patron armed with only a beer barrel trying to stop the attacker. >> he throws the beer barrel at him. deflects it with a chainsaw. does it again, deflects it with the chainsaw. >> several more customers follow suit and go after the attacker. the patron then picks up the barrel a third time and delivers a blow, taking him down for the count.

kennedies, the clintons, the browns of california, the cuomos of new york, the nunns of georgia, the pryorsarc and the bushes. >> question, if jeb bush runs, is he an instant front runner for the gop nomination? >> he's already a front runner and he's smart to have made his move early because in today's republican party there's only one for one sane character. he's considered moderate, he's run a state for two terms, he can raise money, which is really key, and i think the last name bush is not going to hurt him as much as people might think. >> name identification. >> i think we live in a world of branding and i think the american people, they know the brand and they are comfortable with it. so i think if he runs he has a good shot to win. >> so he's got the name and he's got the bush political network. >> he certainly has all of that but he has something else that's more important than any of those things. he's got extraordinary talent chl he was an extraordinary governor, he's an extraordinary speaker. i happened to attend a meeting with him a couple days ago and he was phenomenal. they

i'm a paid pryor at thisization -- prioritization guy. that's where i come from. i have been at the point if you're going to make the $30 billion of investment every 18 months to upgrade the pipes, you got to have revenue to do that. you got to have a business moddle to do that. my whole position in this has not been limited and government control of the existing pipes but encouragement expansion of more. so -- that was then. this is now. we are in a new world order where i think we have now looked at the debate and said, business vs. done that, too, and said, hey, we need to get this monkey off our back. we need to get some rules. some certainty. so again credit to the chairman by saying, ok, let's go back to the previous debates, look at what was put out in front by our colleagues. where can we find middle ground? that's what the product -- i believe that's the product that chairman walden has set forth. now with great consternation from my friends on the other side. i'm with the chairman. i think we can move forward and set some certainty, but i'm a legislator.

. >> richard pryor used it from industry than from all parts.ing to young eddie murphy on "saturday night live" after the show he killed it. just to of us i said you were one of those brilliant cats you don't need to be dirty he said because they'll laugh. he has of 30 room mansion and i have a farmhouse. [laughter] neil: but to say it is not recommending that you curse but as human beings we feel better and remember more when we do. whatever happens to get us some excited that we are cursing we not only remember what we said that why be said it. it is like it is soul cleansing. >> it is like a punctuation mark sometimes. that unfortunately it comes out. >> i do think kids are growing up swearing and i was not allowed. the bar of soap came write-up. >> via understand the catharsis' part it is like dead poets society don't use the word very. you are not lazy or exhausted. and kids could see that defect. >> but if they resort to that type of language does that loosen their own it? >> o lot of the product has been eliminated because och i agree. ne

richard pryor is the freest black man i have ever known. he was a black man that was free enough to speak and to live, just free, just a free black man. i always aspired to be as free as i can be and freedom by any other definition is the freedom to tell the truth and when you can tell foretelling you got to be a free black man or a free white man or free anybody and be willing to speak the truth and whatever consequences you deal with it and that is the ultimate freedom. the second movie i saw was purple rain with prince. never had a chance to experience those things until i got to college. >> host: the death of denver smith galvanize the black student population. >> i was 12, learning everything i can about dr. king. i read everything i could get my hands on. i went to every library for miles around, anything about king i was soaking up like a sponge, so much so that when i got to high school i was on the speech team and everywhere i went for four years on the speech team i would win all be speaking contests and rotary contests and i was

." >> a young richard pryor. joan rivers. rodney dangerfield. >> everybody wanted a showcase.lk about it. did you see sullivan? >> my whole life i don't get no respect. no respect from anyone. >> as a performer you couldn't get a better place to sell your product. >> when i started out, they would say, variety is a man's game. it's dean, milton berle, jackie gleason, you know, it's the guys. but variety is what i know. i felt it was in my genes to do this. >>. [ yelling like tarzan ] >> she had been so good on the garry moore show, she always knew she could sing and dance and be funny. >> on my show, i would do prat falls and jump out of windows and get pies in the face, and it was heaven. >> you know, i still see a rerun of "carol burnett show" and i think, god, damn, they're funny. there has never been a better three-wall sketch show ever. >> she was great in bed, too, dickey, remember? >> you never went to bed -- >> well. >> not supposed to curtsy, you're supposed to bow. well, i get dizzy when i bend over. >> when tim conway came on his goal in life was to destroy harvey.

and the mishap resulted in a sketch featuring pryor and chevy chase and most of the words unfiltered. in 2013 that the oxford english dictionary traces the use of euphemism as far back as 1985. it came into wider use in 1995 during the o.j. simpson murder trial when testimony shows mark ferman had used the slur during his career and news anchors were trying to report the news story without throwing out the n-bomb for every sense. sometimes we self-sensor for policy. here we are not showing you the cover of "charlie hebdo," as the statement reads, as a knew organization, the nbc universal news group supports free speech like chb to defend and at the same time we make editorial decisions every day about what information to share with the punt and we take care not to offend our viewers, particularly with relate to ethnicity and religion. but it is complicated. for instance, i've declined to say the name of a washington football team considering it a slur. and cartoons that used to run regularly on saturday mornings are now deemed too racially inflammatory. and in 1988 more than 150 movie

richard pryor me encantaba, pero un amigo mÍo, pero inicialmente me inspiraba freddie prinze sr., degeorge lÓpez. si les interesa saber mÁs sobre george lÓpez, sobre, por ejemplo, cuÁl es el momento que mÁs lo ha avergonzado en su vida o las tres cosas que nadie sabes sobre Él, pueden entrar a univisiÓnnoticias.com. al regresar: los latinoamericanos que se colaron en las nominaciones de los oscares. en las nominaciones de los oscares. volvemos con ellos. hasta consumidores de ragú ragúescogieronn (women) a prego homestyle alfredo sobre ragú classic alfredo prego alfredo?! (thinking) ¿por qué no todo lo que pruebo es así de bueno? ha ha! woah! (monkey squeals) (sigh of relief ) escoge sabor. escoge prego. no te pierdas la venta de ropa de invierno de kmart! con descuentos de hasta un 60% en ropa de invierno incluyendo abrigos, suéteres y pijamas. kmart. donde miembros siempre consiguen más. >> antes nos sorprendÍan, ahora nos parece de lo mÁs normal: una vez mÁs, varios latinoamericanos fueron nominados a los premios Óscar de este aÑo. "birdman", la pelÍcula del director alejandro gon

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on her 1973 variety show, she and rich pryor ifed a skill called juke and oak, about two black folks hanging out in a diner. ( laughter ) one reviewer called it the most profound meditation on race and class that i have ever seen on a major network which says something both about lily and the major networks. ( laughter ) that was ad lib, by the way. ( laughter ) in her one-woman show, the search of signs of intelligent life in the universe written by her brilliant partner yain wagner -- jane wagner, lily played a dozen characters, transforming instantly into men, women, young, old crazy, and sane. and this versatility has led to a flood of awards, emmy's, tony's, grammy oscar nomination. she's just inches away from an egot and now she's a kennedy center honoree. when asked what she hoped her tribute on the would look like, shed said what i would like to see is a big treatment of gay artists come out as earnestine. ( laughter ) i haven't talked to -- i don't know whether this has been arranged, although i'd like to see it too. but i can promise that your contributions to american stag

and i think that's one of the proofs -- >> isn't the proof of the pudding in what justice pryor is saying in the statistics, one of the briefs mention that those candidates who can fund raise personally do appreciably better in collecting money than the candidates who have to go through a committee? so what would be the difference other than the fact that there is some form of personal coerce coercion in the presence of the judge asking for the money. >> i don't think so, your honor. assuming that the statistics are right, it seems to me in a system where we vote for a perng, a american e message from a person that combines what they stand for with request to a contribution makes that request for effective. not because it's coercive, but because it's tie today what the person stands for. and those parts of the message are effective when they come from the person themselves. i think you'd find the same statistics that they do much better when they put the arm on you personally rather than having someone else contact you. i can't imagine it being anything different. >> well, that's the poin

. >> they basically, the white house spent the last year saying if it's bad for mark pryor in arkansas, don't say it. >>> we will take a break here, but we will show you on the other side. we'll talk about the news that gohmert is making and get a live report on that. later in the show a chance to talk more about ed brooke and his legacy with andrew young a former congressman, former ambassador to the u.n. and also aide to martin luther king jr. and also speak with him about the new film "selma." controversy whether it takes too much license behind the civil rights movement. stick around for that. lots more ahead. also, we will go live this morning to indonesia for the latest on the search for the victims of the airasia crash. now north korea is reacting to sanctions the u.s. imposed in the wake of the sony hacking. >>> and we will remember mario cuomo for our pick of the most influential speak. it has had a huge impact. a lot this morning. stay with us. (son) oh no... can you fix it, dad? yeah, i can fix that. (dad) i wanted a car that could handle anything. i fixed it! (dad) that's w

in the black community, we had richard pryor, dick gregory and others who said things on stage that couldn'tliticians if we can't say things in a funny way, in a hebdo way, you can never say them in a serious way. this is from "meet the press" this morning. the new editor of "meet the press" was asked about the pope's criticism. >> how do you respond to the pope's criticism? >> translator: every time we draw a cartoon of muhammad a cartoon of a prophet, every time we draw a cartoon of god, we defend the freedom of religion. we say god must not be a political figure he must be a private figure. we defend the freedom of religion. yes, it's also the freedom of speech, but it is the freedom of religion. religion should not be a political argument. >> i'm interested in sort of the practical question here though of -- so the can versus should. so, in a case of "charlie hebdo," in just the possibility for more backlash for more attacks, on the question of should, where would you come down on that? >> in america we have the concept of fighting words, that you can't say things designed to insight vio

the youngest is senator-elect tom cotton who beat mark pryor the democrat there. 37 years old from arkansas, iraq and afghanistan veteran. average age in the senate, 61 years old. let's go to the news desk for another quick update on the speaker race. host: greta, just wanted to point out this story from "the washington post" this morning that more are announcing opposition to boehner but he just got safer. the current whip count, the biggest development might be a report from politico that at least 12 house democrats are skipping the vote to attend mario cuomo's funeral in in new york. why is that important? the speaker needs a majority of those voting, not a majority of all members. every member who doesn't vote that is another vote that boehner can stand to lose and still win. it increases the threshold for pushing boehner to a v second alibi votes. -- second ballot by votes. host: you will be able to watch that all unfold on c-span. they will gavel in at noon and the vote for speaker will take place shortly after that. we will go to kevin fort wayne, indiana. caller: hi, greta, how are

tom cotton defeated mark pryor by 17 points. a veteran deployed to baghdad in 2006 and afghanistan in 2008. from west virginia, the new republican senator, shelley moore capito. west virginia's first female senator. also, another senator elect thom tillis, republican of north carolina. kay hagan in that contest. -- a beat kay hagan in that contest. elected to the north carolina state house in 2006. served as their speaker in 2011. some of the new faces you will see in the senate when a gavel in at noon. -- when they gavel in at noon. host: 58 new freshmen in the house and senate. 13 makers -- 13 new lawmakers. we will be talking to a few of them this morning. we will be talking with veteran reporters about the hot button policy issues as well. we talked about the issue of immigration. for a look at the transportation issues on the horizon for the 114th congress, we turn now to cq roll call's transportation writer. thank you for joining us. what can we expect from him when it comes to transportation issues on the senate side? we

. >> i have and it's great to work with all of them terrence howard richard pryor, his new film. >> offthank you very much, and naomi. what's what's going on in your neck of the woods with the four js -- jean jill jenna, and joy. if you're having trouble with your new year's resolutions they'll answer your "start today" questions. we'll get to those. it's egg:26. i'm sam brock. we had tragic news this morning. one person is dead another critically injured after a fiery crash this morning on interstate 580. this happened a little after 4:00 a.m. in the eastbound direction near 150th avenue where san leandro meets castro valley. it closes all eastbound lanes for about three hours. chp says one car lost control and overturned, and a second car struck the overturned car which caused fire. a third person suffered minor injuries in the accident and mike has been looking at ways to get around it all morning. finally, those lanes are open. >> that's right. we'll show that to you on the map, but it's much less of a concern that this at the coliseum. we satraffic jamming up. i told folks there wa

. >> i have and it's great to work with all of them terrence howard richard pryor, his new film. >> offank you very much, and naomi. what's what's going on in your neck of the woods with the four js -- jean jill jenna, and joy. if you're having trouble with your new year's resolutions they'll answer your "start today" questions. we'll get to those. >>> good morning i'm tracy davidson. we're tracking a nor'easter that will bring up snow and other wintery weather starting want to and into tomorrow. penn dot is getting ready, they're getting salt trucks and brining roads. let's get a update from bill henley. >> they're waiting for all know in the pocono mountains. we'll see a lot of sunshine today and snow areeves in philadelphia the hours. it will come tonight and stay until tomorrow morning. it will not be all rain for fooifl if the radar shows the storm is making progress. it is moving to west virginia. virginia. it will move into our area tonight. it is certainly cold right now but we have sunshine. the temperatures are starting to climb in fooifl we'll be in the 30s this morning. 40 t