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

lindsey: richard pryor. mark: do you like louis ck? lindsey: yes.n winters, you could get -- give him a spoon and he could do 20 minutes with a spoon. robin williams there are those who can just go for hours. jerry seinfeld can do stand up without being dirty. john: how many people do you think have had a drink? lindsey: the more you drink your, the more this will make sense. john: getting back to richard pryor, if this were an evening event, would you be more tempted to loosen up? lindsey: i have a lot of material nobody knows about. that is good. when you have one too many, never mind. john: senator mccain has been giving you advice? lindsey: he is a good friend. he certainly is. john: what advice has he given you about comedy? lindsey: he tells the same jokes over and over again. it is the delivery. he told me to come here and stake new hampshire. it is a battleground for me. i think i will do well. john: i like to just do the punchline. lindsey: it would just be me and you at that dinner. remember that? the guerrilla and handcuffs? mark: i do no

my favorites are richard pryor -- mark: do you like louis ck? lindsey: yes.athan winters, you could get head -- give him a spoon and he could do 20 minutes with a spoon. robin williams, there are those who can just go for hours. jerry seinfeld can do stand up without being dirty. john: how many people do you think of have had a drink? lindsey: let me tell you, i have a lot of material that nobody knows about, and that is good. [laughter] when you get loose and have one too many -- never mind. [laughter] mark: john mccain is giving you advice about this. he tells jokes over and over again. lindsey: he tells the same was over and over again. they are funny, i do not know after the 100 times we heard them but they are all in the delivery. he told me to come here, it is a battleground. i told 20 minutes of jokes at the summit -- ag summit. [laughter] [indiscernible] mark: there was a time in 2007 when you and senator dean love to watch john edwards to the i feel pretty video. have you ever seen anything funnier than that? lindsey: that is pretty funny. here is a

my first comedian was richard pryor, from richard pryor to adam sandler to chris rock.when was your last relationship? how long four and a half years ago? >> all of them been here. people they ask me they say who did you discover? i said i didn't discover anybody. they discover me. they help me to be who i am today. without them i would be nobody. that's a reality. every comedian, col call them doctor of the soul. how they help people break the barriers between people, i have latino gang people and african american gang people in here. i'm saying oh my god what is going to happen? but after they put their differences aside they start telling each other jokes. i realize, oh my god it is a miracle hang. they are looking at each other staring at each other with a like a madness and aggravation and they didn't know why they are mad at each other. >> a lot of brown people here right? >> the first time i started latino show called la factoria 30, 35 years ago. i started a show with black pack, like rat pack, i got allot of african american people. i was the first place to hav

. >> she is the daughter of icon richard pryor. >> my dad threw me out.

to be a function of him navigating to get to the position of richard pryor.t there's also a genius in navigating that process. particularly in the '70s and '60s, in this you know -- you know, racially tense country, richard pryor is -- is transforming how we speak about things. it wasn't just shock. it was very much insightful because there is something about jean wrous it feels -- genius it feels, it's very subjective right, and hyperbolic. right? i mean martin luther king was a genius. albert einstein. if you say genius you think albert einstein the guy who invented the pretzel numbers that have the peanut butter in there. i mean, that was a genius. a genius at work. >> think about somebody like jerry seinfeld. how do you main thain drive you're talking about, that restlessness that genius when you've made "the" show of an era and you've made almost $1 billion, and you've got an airport hangar full of antique cars and how do you keep going after that? >> i don't know. i mean those are just a list of reasons to not like him. right? but i think that you -- yo

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kind of like gene wilder and richard pryor. >> that's amazing, thank you, wow. >> jimmy: and it's very >> jimmy: there's some penises and everything. >> i blame will ferrell, none of it's my fault. >> jimmy: you were the roastmaster at the comedy central roast of justin bieber. >> yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: that's taped saturday night? >> we just taped it. >> jimmy: how did that go? >> a little rough. [ laughter ] yeah, yeah. i'm not going to lie. there's some moments where i was like, justin's going to cry in the car. there's no way. there's no way he's not going to cry. you know, you can look at a person and like they're trying to have to have a good time but you can tell there's a tear. there's one moment i looked at justin. he's like -- [ laughter ] a laugh but it's not. i kept pointing at him like, hold it back, boy. you don't let those cameras see it come down. he did one knee slap where he covered up a cry. and sat up. it got a little rough. i will say this i will say at the end of it, what i love the most, and i will say this here, justin bieber stood onstage and he gave his rebutta

it's a black rapper, i don't care if it's a redneck, i don't care if it's a comedian, remember richard pryoree any people like that when he went to africa, stopped using in his comedy routines. talking to eric about my e-mail so unbelievable, like a sludge coming through there with the n-word, it's just wrong. painful. stop it. don't use that word. i don't care who you are. >> set your dvr so you never miss an episode of "the five." "special report" is up next. >>> did hillary clinton commit a felony when she deleted e-mails from her time as secretary of state? >>> plus, new information about how secure her server was. this is "special report." >>> good evening, welcome to washington, i'm bret baier. the implication of the hillary clinton e-mail scandal are growing potentially much more serious tonight. clinton's admission that she decided which e-mails to keep and which to destroy could set her up for criminal prosecution. chief white house correspondent ed henry, has the latest on this story tonight. >> reporter: former secretary of