errand that was a couple of years and richard pryor told me this is you. you have hit your stride. it's where you're supposed to be. when the master tells you that i feel comfortable saying that's what i thought. >> 19 88 was a good year for charlie and arsenio. they look good. that's charlie interviewing arsenio hall back in 1988. arsenio hall became one of the few late-night hosts to give johnny carson a run for his money. it was a big hit in the early 1990s but after five seasons he gave it all up. next week nearly 20 years later, arsenio returns to tv. recapturing what he had won't be easy as he told cbs correspondent lee cowan. ♪ >> reporter: as pop culture goes, bill clinton blowing the sax is an oldie but a goody. while, it's oh so nice.

that because i was moved by the profundity of what you had to say about the artistic thiss of richard pryor and is bob newhart talking about prior. tell me about your respect for his craft. >> he is just huge. i may have mentioned, i am not sure. i received an award from the kennedy center. and pryor was the very first to receive it. which to me, was very what marke because twain was doing at the turn-of- the-century, talking about life talking aboutr, life in the inner city. they were doing the same thing. as a comedian, the language doesn't bother me at all. , they werethe words directed at me very often. cheated,ld feel describing life in the inner is not lifearn it in the inner city. i never found it offensive. i think my bone is just a piece of genius. award and the comedy he turned to me, in a wheelchair we went to and commercial and came back. i handed him the lifetime achievement award, and he looks up at me and says, i stole your album. i stole your album and you're into. i walked into a record store and put it in my jacket. richard, i will quote you for an album. he said, give me

the guy peeks around the corner, one yells out, hey richard pryor. >> who the hell is richard pryor?t even know who that is. >> tonight, you're speed dating. >> yeah, i'm kind of freaking out. it's funny. i can do, like, the stuff that work and run around and chase bad guys, and then you put me in a situation like that and i am totally freaked out. >> yeah, because you're not in control. you know? >> i have to go in with, like, some sort of game plan. i'll get all flustered. won't be pretty. like, so -- >> if only i could be a fly on the wall. >> what if they're really good looking and they don't think i'm -- >> so? that's the thing with speed dating. you're not really stuck. >> next. >> waiting out 30 seconds and you get another date. you know? yeah, you'll be fine. >> i brought pictures of the dresses just so you can help me pick one out. this is the first one. >> okay. >> and then this is the other one. it's cream on the front but then in the back it's gray. >> okay. and you feel more comfortable in this? >> yeah, it's a little bit longer. >> i definitely think you should be weari

i'm using comedy like richard pryor, and others using it to raise issues and change opinions. >> beforee ask if media is an effective way to reset the narrative we should talk a little bit about how media has shaped and influence the current view of muslims in the united states. >> sure. one of the most dominant frames that muslims have been represe represented is largely through the view of national security that muslims are a foreign threat. this existed long before the september 11th attacks. it has a long history going back to 1970s in movies, television shows and then after september september 11th we see more complicated perspectives, like the show "24" had a lot of this ticking time bomb situation where the muslim is hidden and the muslim could explode at any time. so the largest frame since september 11th attack is good muslim to bad muslim which is not fair fought muslim community. what people like dean and negin are showing muslims are a whole variety of things outside of this good muslim and bad muslim context. >> normal people with normal lives to fight such a large lucrativ

this is where richard pryor started and lily tomlin and others. the first date -- the first week of was working there, i met a guy who is also starting up. his name was billy crystal. he lived about 3 tons over from where my parents live. he had a little blue volkswagen, used to pick me up every night. drive into the city. we would get on stage, do our jobs. he would drive me home. we would critique each other's jokes and our acts. i am about four months into this nightmare, this experiment of mine. one night at about 1:00 a.m., having the hardest time in the world making these four drunks from des moines laugh. i get off the state and -- i get off the stage and go to the board videos awaiting for billy. a man sits next to me and starts staring at me. staring at me. i finally go, what, what do you want? he goes, you know, you are the worst the media i have ever seen in my life. i said, thank you, i really need to hear this right now. thank you very much. he said, but your material is good. do you write it? i said, yes. he said, can i see more of i

perform in the white night clubs, he was first celebrity and bigger than bill cosby, he was before richard pryoris my dad. >> what instruct me, if he had followed the route of just beine a comedian, i mean you would have been like red carpet everywhere, and the oscars and you're doing in and you're doing that, but he chose a different path.p >> i chose a different path. >> that must make you reallyreay proud. >> it makes me really proud. he always thought us that to to have a gift is not really special but to use the gift to make your environment better than we found it. we remember charged with that. in my family you had to be a a change maker it was sort of what we were born into. for me to use my gift as a musician as an actor and as an educator. i'm privileged to use it the the same way that he used niz his comedy.comedy he used his comedy as a healingn it's intrks because it's very it's interesting because it's hard for somebody to be in on the top of their game. mether hem used topeople used tn you afraid that your involvemen in the movement will comedy career. he said no.. my as one of hi

stride i was opening for patti labelle at the ampy that it errand that was a couple of years and richard pryor tells you that i feel comfortable saying that's what i thought. >> 19 88 was a good year for charlie and arsenio. they look good. that's charlie interviewing arsenio hall back in 1988. arsenio hall became one of the few late-night hosts to give johnny carson a run for his money. it was a big hit in the early 1990s but after five seasons he gave it all up. next week nearly 20 years later, arsenio returns to tv. recapturing what he had won't be easy as he told cbs correspondent lee cowan. ♪ >> reporter: as pop culture goes, bill clinton blowing the sax is an oldie but a goody. while, it's oh so nice. fitting that it took place in what embodies cool. arsenio hall. with his flattop hair cut, flashy suits and fist pump that pumped up the audience, arseneio hall made late-night hit. may have looked like a talk show but it felt more like a party. >> tell all your friends oprah's on. >> reporter: at his peak he was on the cover of "time" magazine and a contender for the late night press, but

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