by the time you get to richard pryor, richard pryor decides he's not going to speak in code.lk to mainstream audiences the way black people talk in private. >> police got a chokehold they use out here. they choke them to death. that mean you be dead when they're through. you know that? we're going, yeah, we know. white folks are going, no, i had no idea. yeah, two grab your legs, one grab your head. oh, [ bleep ], broke it. >> what it does is give people who have never had a way to talk about their suggle, because you can quote a richard pryor joke. then it gives people who never thought about the black struggle a way to hear about it through humor. richard pryor is delivering it in a way that's funny so you go, ha, ha, ha, huh. i wonder if that's true. all of a sudden your imagination is cracked open a little bit because he's explaining his experience. he's not just going, white people are bad, white people are bad. he's explaining the experience. and that, to me, is the difference. >> after you saw live in concert or sunset strip you went back and thought, i need to change

richard pryor's liberty was funny so you go ha ha, huh?ination's cracked open a bit because he's explaining his experience. he's not just going white people are bad, white people are bad he's explaining the experience. and that to me is the difference. >> after you saw live in concert or sunset strp, you wen back and thought i need to change what i need to do. >> we do all the work nobody else wants to do. if an immigrant is taking your job then you got a [ bleep ] up job. >> i think that any comedian that has ever been influenced by richard pryor he made you do something you didn't want to do which was talk about the pain and the darkest times in your live. >> you know, you just don't want to drive they tennessee when you look like this. it's [ bleep ] not fun. it's not. i got to know the can you cluks clan way to well, and i don't mean to judge them but they're [ bleep ] holes. you know they really are. >> richard pryor really changed rates because he wouldn't afraid to be black in a white world. i wanted t cllenge and provoke in the sam

my father came and went at the same time. >> richard pryor was funny.herapeutic. >> my ground mothgrandmother wae lady that used to discipline me. beat my ass. get your ass out, put your hands, don't you run from me, don't you run from me. as long as you -- don't you run from me. >> what people took of him is a lot of attitude and the over the topness and profanity. the thing people don't give richard pryor enough credit for is what he brought to stand-up comedy was the vulnerability. >> for me the best night was having a woman who was sitting close to the stage beg me to stop. she was looking at me, she's going, in pain, face was in pain. she was in pain. she went, please, please stop. please stop. you can't beat that. >> the one thing about hitler that i admire is he wouldn't take any [ bleep ] from magicians. >> it brings out the best parts of your personality. it bring out your best self. it does. you like yourself when you're up there. you like yourself. >> thank you, seriously thank you. you have no idea what a good mood i'm in right now. [ bleep

. >> richard pryor. >> when i walk on stage, i'm riddled with fear and excitement because i have no idea what i'm going to do. >> this was what -- oh, you idiots. oh, god. oh, god. oh, god. oh, god. ♪ >> i demispised myself from prey close to getting out of the womb. i was always wrong. let's start with that. when you're always wrong, you seek an audience to disprove that theory. i was just hell-bent on having to prove myself. i know i'm right. i can't be always wrong, you know, i was the victim. >> my father was a very strange man. he was kind of a performance arti artist that was fueled by beer. >> i was very shy. at home i was always quiet and didn't get to speak very often just because other people were jibber jabbering a lot. you know, some people wouldn't clam up, mom. when i did different voices or different noises, people say, that's weird or shut up. >> i feel like there's a fear of seeming crazy. >> a lot of comedians are people that are very introverted, very shy, very sensitive to humiliation. a little narcissistic, a little damaged, and so the only way to combat it is so go

. >> reporter: lon pryor was juror number 247 during the people versus o.j. simpson. cast a vote about his guilt or innocence, how would you vote? >> i'm probably pretty sure that he probably is nicole brown simpson and ron goldman. >> reporter: are hear oththere things that have changed your view? >> he decided to come out and do this fictitious book about if i did it. it became apparent to me in my mind that he was problem lit person who went over there and killed those people. >> reporter: but pryor says he ultimately stands by that not guilty verdict. >> it wasn't based on what i thought i did it or didn't do it. it was based on the presumption given to my by judge ito of reasonable doubt. >> reporter: the jury reached a verdict. >> not guilty of the crime of murder. >> reporter: pryor says his first days of freedom were mired in fear. >> i had people camped out at my home in los angeles all the time. i had people that would show up at my house and leave threatening remarks. >> reporter: for simpson, life after the not guilty verdict was also not as he may he in 2

this is pryor's first season with the team. today he randomly met the six- foot four inch whiteout at an ohio rest stop last summer. >> i was road tripping from holland back to ashburn la terrell at a rest stop in cleveland. he was in line at starbucks. he stopped me. he had his hood up and he stopped me and i went over there and said hello. we played in the big ten and introduced ourselves. i was surprised how big he was there at the line of starbucks. >> reporter: they are veterans. no doubt they were a member of their rookie days. but there's no more hazing for rookies, but they do play a prank. coming up tonight at 11:00, we've got a list of our top five washington pranks. that does it for us right now from training camp. day one just about in the books here from washington. diane roberts wusa9 sports. >> thank you. he might get some ideas. still ahead a couple of bar owners crawling to the ceiling to escape the rising floodwaters in their restaurants. >>> coming up next the ohio state fair, well it's open, but all the ride

of the current this ions there, keeping country safe from terrorist is the highest priority of the pryor dministration mr. said. elizabeth from tilton, new your mind?what is on caller: hello, how are you today? i'm good. i'm good. what are your thoughts today? caller: i listen to you guys all the time. write to new how to you. prejudice, so i voted very ama, but i was disappointed about the abortion christian e i'm a person, a real christian, not my name. trump because he doesn't really believe in babies, to us, it was worth it to have him give it a shot. but the democrats, i voted years and i can't people would destroy their own country with on at d just keep something to drive it in the ground. muslim people, as hristians, but we know hristian muslims that would tell you that they're out to infiltrate our country and take and they can do that from within if you let enough in here. okay. you can always reach c-span through the website c-span.org, how to contact us from there. betty calling from milwaukee on the democratic line. betty, what do you want to talk about? caller: i want to ta

we expect terrell pryor, the numbers were fantastic but he was a main target. so you expect him to continue to go in the right direction. remember josh is a first round pick and he has to hit. he has to contribute for them to be successful. the loss of jackson and garcon is noticeable. but to limit that blow you need josh docson in the sophomore campaign to be a contributor. erin: good stuff. you can watch the abc7 sports sunday every sunday at 11:35 right here. this is a big week for us. we will recap the first few days of training camp. i'll be there in richmond starting wednesday. larry: down there it was so hot. erin: so hot. larry: hopefully the better weather for you and the redskins, too. >> it's still going to be hot. larry: thanks. up next at your bike ride or the commute. de larry: ten months after construction workers shut down beach drive for a malice i rehab project, we are getting an upclose look at the progress of the three-year project. brianne carter looks at the progress and when the first section of the roadway will reopen. brianne: a smoothe

the 6'4" terrell pryor will try to fill the void at receiver after jackson and garcon left the team. i sat down with pryor and i asked him about his relationship with kirk cousins and his goal for the season. >> i don't think what guys understand about kirk he has to trust you. i feel like, to go to you a lot. you have to build the trust. do you feel like you have that? >> yes. it's ongoing. erin: do you consider yourself a true receiverrer? >> it will be a big year. >> why do you say that? >> big year. >> because of the wor ethic, what you have put? >> it will be a big year, erin erin: he didn't want to be specific. i was suppressed. he told me that he worked with brown and moss in the a vacation. he says he only takes sundays off. >> we know this, it will be a big year. jonathan: despite increased money, opioid overdoses are up 120%. we explain why the addicted drugs are a foe to fight. >> we cannot continue to arrest the way out of the situation. in 2015, there were 107 overdoses from the drug but last year it swelled to 214. this year they are on target to hit 250. that is 128% i

with people like richard pryor, redd foxx, dick gregory, the jokes were about respect, and integrity.ple who were hostile like the kkk. it wasn't about ridiculing people because of their skin color or amplifying your skin color, it was about fighting for equality. in that context, those jokes are effective, and they have the correct angle. >> sometimes make that statement of i count. >> cliff nestoroff, thank you for being with us. the history of comedy airs tonight 10:00 eastern and pacific only on cnn. >>> a new poll out today shows president trump's approval rating takes a noticeable hit. >> the trump campaign, we learned this week paid $50,000 to donald trump jr.'s lawyer. is that an acknowledgement that the meeting with the russian lawyer was official campaign business? >> i'm not involved with the discussions on the lawyers on who paid what entity, and i don't represent donald trump jr. >> also, calls to hear testimony from everyone at that 2016 meeting with russians. >> we need to get to the bottom of this. the only way we're going to do it is to talk not just to donald trump j

remember terrell pryor told erin hawksworth it's going to be a big year. how big?jay gruden is thinking colossal. >> he is a big physical great athlete. had he made the decision sooner in his career he'd be farther along. but he made it not long ago so he is where he is. he's a top guy in the league and just started playing. he is a physical freak. robert: nats making bullpen moves by the trade deadline. brandon kintzler in exchange for tyler watson from the twins. they needed that big time. back to you. jonathan: thanks. alison: all right. one last look at the weather. doug: all right. remind you that tonight at 11:00, steve rudin will check out the added heat and the humidity on the way to talk about the chances of the thunderstorms. in the meantime, a brief look ahead. upper 80's to near 90. slight increase in the humidity levels, too. but nothing extreme. maybe a few afternoon thunderstorms on wednesday and thursday. alison: sounds good. thank you, doug. "world news tonight" with david muir coming up next. jonathan: thank you very much for tuning in. see you ba

and you keep going and i think this is that of our generation you know i mean i was about richard pryor where he tells his joke you know you know you get paid on friday night you take your girl out then you get pulled over by the cops you know hands up drop your pants spread your cheeks and he's like you know who feels like having fun after something like that because white people don't believe this happens because they know the cops differently that's a job from the seventy's that works today. so yeah you know. white people getting outraged by the injustice the black people had to deal with in this country for hundreds of years does nothing for me. doesn't aspire to me anyway and it doesn't it's not something that i would bet on i wouldn't put my eggs in that basket. that being said i think that there is something to this thing that i like to. think that inspires me more or feel more optimistic about is a cultural shift this is an idea of you know this cultural shift towards like you know what pop music that i've been digesting forever i'm done with that you know watching a movie calle

pryor lowing if you sum it up john reilly you're a pro at all you've accomplished your music change the industry as well as society what do you think the next big revolution in music will be consist of. that's coming. while you know if a new ad out is. make a whole lot of money you know that's the thing about everything goes around comes around you think in groups come back i think that's that's what's needed and i think you know whenever it is there's an absence music usually fills that void so you know you have so many solo artists it's time to swing back to groups brother maybe a band you know i mean then and so again of the new music would instruct the instruments that they're really capture everybody's imagination and mine in a girl arts game and you know so i think music always finds a way and you know it's like water you can't really hold it you can only you know roll with it evolving ego what's your role in mentoring the upcoming generation of entertainers just obama example you know i'm not somebody who's no mine you know i'm i'm i'm busy. and so i want to live longer but i jus

coming up in the 5:00 hour i sat down with kirk's new target, wide receiver terrell pryor. you will hear from him around 5:50. back to you. nancy: thank you. share your training camp pride busts. update them to wjla.com. jonathan: must see video. the man setting a fire and it's caught on camera. he walks in a youth center in phoenix, place for lbgtq teens to gather. this is two weeks ago. the gas can, he enters it. he walks around a corner and the room erupts to flames. they identified who he is as a former member there. out to track him down but they have not found him. jonathan: justin bieber accidently hitting a member of the paparazzi with his car. the photographer scrapes and bruises. they all rushed to his pickup after he was leaving a church service. the singer was not issued a citation and is cooperating with police. jonathan: can he go without making the headline? nancy: i don't think so. jonathan: the cars can take up space on the tight street. there is no problem. put muscle into it. the awill remember didn't even go out. good teamwork. someone who parked it put

. >> you talk to some of these guys, you mention jonathan winters, richard pryor, any story that stands to you. >> here is a guy that grew up in large house, in baea bedroom performing in his head, creating different worlds and he ended up dying alone in a room and a big house. it was the alone part that got to me. here is someone who created so much laughter, so much joy for so many people and for him to have died alone i think that says more about comedy than practically any other story. that devastated the community. he was incredibly nice guy who suffered from major depression and other mental illnesses. that hit very hard in the community. >> what is the answer to helping these people who may be dealing with something secretly. >> i think it's out there. depression is always mentioned when it comes to comedy. tgs also between ocd and comedy. i think they can reach out. that's a good thing. they can seek out like minded people and also seek out if they are having issues whether it's anxiety or depression or ocd. they can see the very popular, very successful people have it and it's

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." >> a young richard pryor. joan rivers. rodney dangerfield. >> everybody wanted a showcase.t. 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. here's tim wit

you can find "rolling stone" covers where it was like, richard pryor, lily tomlin, and they are our mostrous comedians can doing the most dangerous stuff. >> they both immersed themselves in characters. the very first lily tomlin special on nbc, they both won emmy awards. so did the producer. lorne michls. and based on the strength of that special, the lily special, he got the pilot for "saturday night live". >> dear roseanne! >> i don't know where you get it, how you get it, or who actually milks the dogs and i don't care. >> hi! >> "saturday night live" definitely early on, amazing that right out of the gate, it was loraine newman and jane curtin and gilda radner. >> now, candy. candy? >> they could definitely hang with the guys, they were just as important and hilarious. >> hey, stud muffins, want to make bouncy, bouncy? >> they had three female performers, and three female writers. which if you look at the comedy landscape at that time, is unheard of. >> what made "saturday night live" different from those other shows was our show was the first one to really have a voice for a younge

>> mort saul influenced the whole generation of coffee house comedians like lenny bruce, richard pryorbob collins. bob hope influenced the format of the late night comedy show up. >> here's johnny. >> going to be a good night. i saw bob hope backstage we were talking. it's a wonderful drill standing next to one of the greatest comedians in the entire world. i'm sure bob appreciates it. >> if you were looking for not just a take on the news but the actual news because i wouldn't reading anything other than the sports and the comics, johnny carson where you'd go. >> i saw the headlines in the national inner quirery. the headlines were how eating the right foods can increase your iq. isn't that risky for the inquirer they'd lose their -- >> johnny carson was -- >> he was the most powerful man in hollywood because he could kill you with one joke. >> somebody told vice president george bush that jesse jackson was coming to the white house, and he said oh good maybe he'd autograph my thriller album. >> you wanted to hear what johnny would say. >> a paper today a woman in michigan, she was ar

fans will have a chance to see how cousins meshes with terrell pryor and how a revamped seven.his is what your bid a trivia game started by the skins punter who came up quizzing team and staffers. he's launching a kickstarter next week for the game. he'll be here at fox5 tomorrow to demonstrate the game. >>> yesterday the wizards introduced their newest nine figure player forward otto porter to the media. the question many people had is how does this affect john wall. he has been offered a four year super max deal by the team. but hasn't signed it. team owner ted leonsis says john wall will sign his extension and maybe the wizards can sign this kid in 18 years. this two-year-old jet limon of odd did he say is a texas. he's nailing long distance shots with east. what a great name too jet. law the only survivor of a crash two years ago a crash that killed his mother and sister. as for how jet mastered the art of long range basketball shots according to his dad joseph he began shooting on trash can and watched videos on youtube of people making similar shots. now to the latest tre

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. >> mort sahl influenced this generation of coffee house comedians like lenny bruce, richard pryor,e carlin. where as bob hope with his large writing staff changed the format of the late night comedy shows. >> here's johnny. >> a good night, i just saw bob hope actually a. >> we were talking. you know, it is really a wonderful thrill standing next to one of the greatest comedians in the entire world. and i'm sure bob appreciates it. >> if you are looking for not just a take on the news but the actual news because i wasn't reading anything other than the sports and comics, johnny carson is where you would go. >> i saw the headline in the national enquirer this week. the headline article is how eating the right foods can increase your iq. now, isn't that risky for the enquirer? they could lose all their readership. >> johnny carson would mock something that was in the public eye. everybody was in on it. he was the most powerful man in hollywood because he could kill you with one joke. somebody told george w. bush that jesse jackson was coming to the white house and george bush said oh

this is quite a set of pryors they are putting before us. and fiscally irresponsible. so as i have in past years, i'm introducing a fiscally responsible balanced budget amendment to the constitution. not like the republican one that says you have to have a 2/3 increase taxes and one vote to cut taxes. no, this one would say you have a balanced budget. but you do it by prudent reductions in spending and also you have to deal with the revenue side, by the way, mine protects medicare and social security totally from these sorts of cuts. it makes them into the entitlement programs they are supposed to be the that the republicans want to do away with in their budget. i think there is a better way to go forward, but just like in their fake health care bill, which was really disguised tax cuts for the wealthiest among us, they are now giving us a supposedly prudent fiscal budget blueprint which again is huge tax cuts for the wealthy, for the ncreases pentagon and cuts for everybody else. i yield back the balance of my time. . the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the

xv minutes pryor was on the phone with donald trump and he gave him the okay to talk about this. >> yes. let's take a step back. the president, i know from my reporting and i think it's obvious from his twitter feed over the past many months is obsessed with what he calls beleaguers. information getting out of what's going on inside the white house walls, back and forth and real fights within the white house staff. he wants to get to the bottom of it. okay? got it. anthony scaramucci, clearly, when he came in said, i gotcha, i agree with you. there were a couple stories yesterday that gave scaramucci more impetus to do it. the backdrop of that is that scaramucci has thought since day one of this administration that reince priebus has been leaking things about him to keep scaramucci out of the house, about his financial disclosure, his businesses. scaramucci has not been shy about telling as many people as he can. at the end of the day, here is the thing you need to remember. this president, he almost thrives on this kind of chaos. this is how he kind of -- he kind of does his business a

pryor wrote about mary washington. i won't read her quote, but you get the idea. people have very little compunction in this period in making stuff up. it is remarkable. there are many books out there that simply put dialogue in people's mouths. you can pick up books that look like any other book that tell you the conversations that lawrence, that george and lawrence are having as they sit around mount vernon. it is all just made up. there is a business of doing this. unfortunately, it converges. in a world where information was limited in the 1930's, people see these things and have a hard time sorting out. that is why people get so agitated. most of us don't really care whether williams was telling the truth or not about the cherry tree story. it is interesting, but we are not agitated. read what they are writing at the turn-of-the-century. they're angry at that guy. they want to hunt him down and hit him with a stick of cherrywood. they are mad at him about mixing fiction with truth. that is because their endeavor is so uncertain, so fraught with peril that whe

[laughter] >> i don't think ginsburg or pryor will go voluntarily. kennedy is possible.should president trump get another appointment it will put the chief justice into the interesting position of being both chief and the median justice which will be maybe historically unprecedented and certainly very powerful. >> yeah, i think were all still reeling from. [inaudible] another one would be a real blow to the press room but yes, we are all watching them are all looking for those particularly justice kennedy and those extrinsic clues to my incredible surprise, the rumor mill was a little off in protecting his retirement this term but, right, i don't see anyone else on the court itching to leave in the circumstances and what kennedy does and we know he goes his own way on many things. >> now will take a few questions from the audience. please wait for the microphone. identify yourself and ask a brief question. it will start on your. >> hi, david. i'm davis kirk and having written in government and impress and being a country lawyer i'm amused and dismayed because sometimes o