i was you're richard pryor are you crazy. do?" >> here i am, i'm coming out of the closet of rain prior, doing her version of what she thinks is stand-up. i'm terrified. >> really. >> like, audiences - i'm headlining carolines, audiences laugh. people come to see me. but i'm terrified because i'm not a set-up punch. i'm not telling you set-punch jokes. i'm doing what i do. do you know what i mean. i bring characters out. i'm like - i've never been a formula. you can't put me in a box. >> nothing about you is a formula. >> even today. >> it sounds to me, in a lot of ways, that you are describing your father as well. >> yes. >> because there is nobody else like your father. >> no, there isn't. and there's no one like my mother. my mum is her own individual. i never met a mum like my mum. that makes you iconic, wh no one else can be you. we have a generation now that says we'll look at someone like jay z and beyonce and call them iconic. there'll be another jay z and beyonce that comes after. there'll never be another madonna. whethe

no one knows there was a strict richard pryor. the guy is like "do what i say not what i do", it's like "but dad" "dad nothing." . >> it's remarkable. at that moment i am sure you were like "daddy you're embarrassing me." >> absolutely. there was a dad - "i remember holding you in my arms and you were little", i'm like, "you did that i thought you were gone." he was no i was there, for a moment. >> what do you tell your daughter about your father? >> i say he's a funny man, everyone loved him. when you're older you can listen. she can't listen to my stuff. i had a sample from the c.d. and i was playing it not realising she was there. i'm whoops. she's like "no, no i want to hear." i said "no." "i won't repeat it." >> she nose she shouldn't. >> she is one that realities. i had calls from school. "she said"... oh my god i'm embarrassed, because they know it's me. >> you described lotus as a bit of a miracle baby. >> yes. i was 38 years old when i was pregnant with her. before that i had miscarriages i thought i'm never going to have

i use to have all of richard pryor albums.o the point -- i pretty much knew every single album of his by heart. and have you not heard richard pryor's comedy, until you've heard it secondhand through the voice of a a 9-year-old white british boy. [ laughter ] that's how it's supposed to sound. >> that's really how it -- yeah. >> what you want to do is listen to a little white british boy saying, "not many black people get bit by snakes. [ laughter ] because they be strolling to smooth in the woods. [ laughter ] they be like snake." yeah, that's right. >> jimmy: that i ain't bad -- richard pryor, yeah you know that. >> that's right. it was amazing, even in england. i thought, "why do black people not get bitten by snakes?" i don't know, but i love the way he explains it. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, exactly it's fantastic. i got to tell you, we know we're fans of your show, i've made appearances on your show as well. >> you have. you took a fish to the face and thank you for that. >> jimmy: thank you very much, yeah. if you get

the chevy chase/richard pryor sketch was amazeing.rong signal "saturday night live" was going to be an outlier of sorts in terms of network television. it was going to go to places no other show went to. they still continue to try to do that. >> and you wrote the definitive i think it's fair to say, book on "snl." it's quite a volume. a lot of really terrific quotes in it. it's really interesting to read. what are you most looking forward to seeing in the 40th an anniversary special or who? >> look eddie murphy wasn't around for the 25th anniversary. think it's spectacular that he went that he's coming sunday night. i think one of the great things about sunday night is going to be you're going to get to see different generations of talent cast members, and guest hosts and everything else mix it all up. you know, they kept it under wraps but i think it's going to be pretty exciting. >> all right. thank you very much, james miller. really appreciate it. >> thanksing if having me. >> be sure to -- >>> tonight on "politicsnation" the rev

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." >> a young richard pryor. joan rivers. rodney dangerfield. >> everybody wanted a showcase.alk 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. >> oh! [ yelling like tarzan ] >> she had been so good on the garry moore show, she always knew she could sing and dance and be funny. >> honey, where are the -- >> on my show, i would do prat falls and jump out of windows and get pies in the face, and it was heaven. >> i think it's going -- oh, god! >> 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. >>

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it's like a mort salt, richard pryor. the person who says the most surprising stuff. that surely shocked the bourgeoisie but it's unacceptable and6ñ i hope it doesn't define. >> it has to be stated and called out. rudy giuliani's language was unacceptable. this was not given at some shadowy end of the road secret handshake to get into the room. this was 60 people, major fund raisers and donors, republican. the 21 club. bistro, a syndicate bistro in new york city. to be this group of people he basically said the president doesn't like america. i go back to john mccain who in 2008 when this was a hot issue, had the courage to confront a republican audience in minnesota when they made this charge and said no that is untrue. president obama is an american, he cares this country he loves this family and i like him but i disagree with him on issues. this is going to be an arm's race about who hates barack obama and who can say he's less of a patriot. rudy giuliani got -- and didn't have to serve in vietnam. for him to grading pay trumpism is unacceptable and it's going to t

he would talk about richard pryor, would talk about bill cosby. was out there.cessful comedies, but ones not nearly as edgy and is this just part and parcel of where he is at? >> when you are young and hungry you will do anything for more. you get mature. he has a legacy now. he's in the greatest comics of his generation if not bigger. you don't do those sort of things. with see this with writers and politicians. >> eddie murphy it would have been embarrassing to do something about bill cosby: that would be embarrassing for eddie murphy to do. >> because not only cosby but snl. >> bill cosby got enough trouble for eddie murphy to come out of retirement and do something like this. >> and you know when seinfeld did the joke about a friend that did not go over well in the room, right. ? so kicking a man when he's down does not always work. >> no. it's just not right. >> and i will say, it is interesting how other comics have talked about this. chris rock in new york magazine doesn't talk about cosby specifically. he says -- he doesn't talk about the allegations spe

those bulging eyes -- >> people like richard pryor, showing pain. >> they have done through ups and downse been canceled so many years -- >> great writers don't write all great novels but they're remembered by their good ones. thank you to my panel. we'll be right back after this. it's a fact. kind of like mute buttons equal danger. ...that sound good? not being on this phone call sounds good. it' oo grown in america. picked and packed at the peak of ripeness. with no artificial ingredients. del monte. bursting with life. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like shopping hungry equals overshopping. let me finish tonight with a statement of loss. the older you get you pay attention to more people who die because you know them. when you pick up the newspaper in the morning you and your spouse will greet each other with the news. bob simon died in a car accident this weekend. david carr died last night in the "new york times" news room. we read they're gone we read how they're die, and we realize they are yes, truly gone. coach k. of duke spoke for all of us whe