and the way richard pryor used it was much different than it has been used now because richard r did characters. the characters that he did, he wanted to do them on this lee and they would have used the term so that is why he used to used to them that is way was used at that point. now to simply a punctuation mark in everybody's rapine everybody's presentation. it is a different thing and i agree with sabrina that it is a dehumanizing -- he gives a false sense of attempting to make fun of yourself by calling yourself something that is hateful in the eyes of most people so it really doesn't work for me. >> others'? >> i probably have to recuse myself. [laughter] as a satirist. in my book i remember they did scenarios and they said does anyone do a eulogy for the word? it seems rather unfair so i have a eulogy for the n word in the book and then i said does the even get a fair trial? how come other words are being banned? i have a modest trial of the n word that the is. >> larry why do you expect justice in america in a trial for the? >> that is exactly right. [laughter] >> but yo

richard pryor is the funniest guy in the history and then -- >> is richard pryor the stand-up stand-up? is he the guy that all stand-ups revere? >> he is. >> it seems to me. why was he so special? >> because he dealt with the harshest stuff with drug addiction, with horrible injuries that happened to him. he could deal with anything and absolutely make it brilliantly funny and everybody's tried to live up to him but nobody can. >> what are you up to now? what are you working on? >> just finishing a movie that -- dax sheppard, the funniest man in america now directing with bradley cooper, as i said, playing a bad guy and working -- movie stuff, i'm on the road. i'm in peer or ya in august and west palm beach. come out and see the show. >> i would love to see your show. i really would. it's been a real pleasure to meet you. you're involved also in independent films. >> that's the most fun. the big blockbusters are great but to do these independent films they'll let me be the bad guy and john malkovich be the good guy. that doesn't happen in regular hollywood. >> given your often outrageo