by the time you get to richard pryor, richard pryor decides he's not going to speak in code.oing to talk to mainstream audiences the way black people talk in private. >> police got a chokehold they use out here, though, man. they choke niggers to death. that mean you be dead when they're through. did you know that? niggers go yeah, we knew. 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 struggle, 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 to you in a way that's funny. so you go 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

>> 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 no, you idiots. oh, god. oh, god. oh, god. oh, god. oh, god. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> i despised myself from pretty much 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 hellbent 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 artist that was fueled by beer. >> i was very shy. and 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 would 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, ver

were turkish president richard pryor pair to one has warned that his country will boycott u.s. products in response to what he calls economic terrorism carried out by the u.s. that is a reference to the trumpet ministrations doubling of tariffs on turkish steel and aluminum the turkish lira appears to be pulling back from its record lows said yesterday after the central bank took emergency measures but rising prices they are still hurting turkish consumers. president into one claims the united states has. as retribution for ankara's detention of an american pastor on espionage and terrorism charges washington had already imposed sanctions on turkey and last week announced plans to double import tariffs on turkish elaman human steel since then the turkish lira has lost a quarter of its value there to one says it's part of a plot by the united states to devalue currencies globally meanwhile russian foreign minister sergey lavrov already predicts consequences for the dollar we didn't but. i'm sure that this grave abuse of the u.s. dollar as a global reserve currency will result in

or that was turkish president richard pryor the one speaking there we want to get is stamboul now our correspondent dorian jones is following this story for us good evening to you dorian promises from the turkish of central bank tonight that it will stop the lira from falling further and that means raising interest rates is there any reason tonight to believe that president erda one will finally allow that to happen. well i think that's what in the international investors are all around the world will be now looking on the central bank because that is all that they can do now to stem the collapse in the currency and international investors are talking about a major hike a minimum of five hundred basis points possibly even a thousand to stop this run on the currency because there has been a collapse in confidence over the way turkish economy and the currency is being managed but there is little indication that the central banks will do this because the turkish president has made it perfectly clear he's opposed to interest rate hikes in fact at the weekend he reiterated his opposition d

. >> richard pryor was influenced by red fox but what he did was bring the sensibility to the mainstreamcative material to the mainstream audience was offended. >> a lot of you people will be offended because i'm going to say [ bleep ] [ bleep ] and do-do. >> pryor used pro fancy before anyone else before him. he made the use of those terms seem to be part of every day life. who they realistically were. this is the way these people talk. changed low comedy into high art in a way that no one had done before. >> i remember the [ bleep ]. he could make a mother [ bleep ] laugh at a funeral on christmas day. >> it was about making sure that he told the truth. and he said it on several occasions that's what he was trying to do. >> my dad would always say, if only you knew lenny bruce, and i didn't understand that until much later. >> and i think it was because, for my dad, that was kind of the beginning of speaking truth to power, they say, politically and consciously. >> also like to thank the cameraman who have done such a wonderful job in getting rid of the black cameraman. >> lenny kind o

. >> when you saw richard pryor and gene wilder, you simply believed it, you just believed it. went and had a beer, you just knew they were friends. >> help, i can't -- >> no amount of brainstorming and planning, if they put all the great actors on the wall, and all the great comedians, richard pryor and gene wilder are great. nobody could have predicted that that was going to be that good. >> when two incredible drama people come together, and if they get chemistry, it's delightful. >> "saturday night live" had a great and has a great knack of putting two people together. >> two people together. they had aykroyd and belushi and the blues brothers. >> we're on a mission from god. >> it was a chemistry they had that, okay, fine, you're going to raise money to save the church, fine, i'm going to go along with this. >> baby clothes. this place has got everything. >> i think what it is is mutual assured construction. you cheer each other on. >> i'm getting out of here, damian. >> fine, then go. >> i'm gone. >> go? >> i'm gone. >> go then. >> well, i am. >> i think with dana, i had

don't like it turn it off i understand that but for a get that day's a more it's all lenny bruce richard pryor it's a different world today john just to get your take on what some people have been pointing out on twitter and other places and we have to go back to the maracana must occur in the way trevor joked about it let's again listen to a short clip. why didn't i use rabbits i didn't use i'd tend to i guess because those things don't work anymore. these are the whole wheat and they couldn't control people so that's come with ammunition for those guys had weapons plus a guest is a waste of time which strikes have ended because of to get a sliver of a little news that john was being pointed out here is not you know he saved up but he's been a strong critic of police handling a blocked lives mother protests for instance what's your thoughts on that kind of displaying opinion sure i think that this was a bit that was done and in poor taste does he have the right to do it should be out there of you know of course i don't want to quell freedom of expression any respect but but yeah you know i th

are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world turkish president richard pryor pareto one is to make a two day state visit to germany at the end of september he will meet chancer are going to medical and germany's president after being received with military honors german turkish relations have reached new lows in recent years over human rights and migrant issues people in the kenyan capital nairobi have been marking twenty years since the first major international attack by al qaida in jihad east two hundred fifty eight people were killed when the militants carried out near simultaneous truck bomb attacks on the u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania. u.s. president donald trump has warned other countries and company use against trading with iran his message comes after he reimposed many of the same issues that were in effect before the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with iran now in a tweet today trump labeled the renewed as saying the most biting ever imposed and he warned that anyone doing business with iran would not be doing business in the united states. all r

i bring coffee it's good to have you with us tonight turkey's president richard pryor heir to wine is blaming the united states for his country's economic crisis well that's after saying she was in tears from washington tip the country's currency into freefall erda one says that turkey is under economic sea but analysts say the problems are of his own making by telling the central bank to keep interest rates artificially low he hoped to tame inflation and prop up the currency when that fill the central bank controlled by air to ones sun and wall was finally forced to act the letter has recovered slightly from the meltdown this after ankara central bank announced a series of measures to provide liquidity to the banks but the currency is still fresh out president richard type adeline attempted to assure his people that the economy will remain strong. solid a lot like us we're taking the necessary steps against these attacks together with the finance ministry and of the institutions and we will continue to take them. i believe that the currency rate will return to a reasonable level don'

>> richard pryor was never as funny on the tonight show as he was doing standup.as funny. >> it's very rare you see someone's five minutes on tv and it's as good as their hour in a comedy club. >> guys, if you could blow yourselves, ladies, you'd be in this room alone right now. watching an empty stage. like, i never saw bill hicks live, but i have firsthand accounts from friends saying, there's no one better. >> he was booked on the late show with david letterman in 1993, and he did his set, which had been approved by the bookers in advance. >> people annoy me. what's annoying me is these pro-life people, you ever look at their faces? i'm pro-life. they don't look it, they just exude it. you see them trying to go to an orphanage to adopt a kid. don't pick me. >> did fine in front of that audience, and then after the set, robert morton, got on the phone, some conference upstairs and they decided to cut it from the episode. they said it was too offensive. >> the bill hicks incident on letterman became the thing of legend. so when we talk about clean comedy and dirt

>> richard pryor!ddled with fear and excitement, because i have no idea what i'm going to do.

word dirty, because it is a negative connotati connotation, but use cuss words or language, and richard pryoralso go vice versa. there is no pressure in the comedy club to do anything other than make the audience laugh and be funny and you can do that if you are swear words or not, and it is honest on stage, and if you swear off stage, you will be swearing on stage and that is being true to yourself. if you are clean off stage, you will be clean on stage, and you should not be pressured to change your own personality to placate who is in the audience. the one exception is if somebody in the audience a booker for the "tonight show" or a tv show, that you have to be clean, you want to show them that you are capable of doing it. >> all right. kliph nesteroff, and the history behind comedy is to fascinating. >> and a new episode of "the history of comedy" tonight at 0 10:00 p.m. eastern. thank you for joining me this sunday. i'm fredricka whitfield and that is it for me, as we continue with ana cabrera right now. >>> it is 5:00 eastern and 2:00 out west, and i'm ana cabrera and you are live in th

. >> mort sahl influenced this whole generation of coffeehouse comedians like lenny bruce, richard pryorge carlin. whereas bob hope with his large writing staff influenced the format of the late-night comedy shows. >> here's johnny! >> it will be a good night. i just saw bob hope, actually, as we were talking. you know, it's 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 was where you would go. >> and 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 vice president george bush that jesse jackson was coming to

the comics we've had in history of comedy, like we had, you know, the eddie murphys and we had richard pryornd all of them stalked about very personal things. >> absolutely. >> oh, how can i put this? whenever i'm feeling bad about something, i go on stage and make it laugh. make the elephant in the room laugh. just like music is a release, just like when you watch tv it is a release, comedy is the same thing. laughter is an actual release. you know how when you feel bad and you put on your ear phones and, hey, that's a release. >> yeah. >> hey, so is laughter. like let it go. like let it go. like let it gurge through your body and let it go. like how do you not laugh at something that's wrong with you? like does it make sense? >> it does make sense. >> it is just so much healthier to laugh at it and accept yourself. a lot of people are offended because you haven't accepted who you are. and when somebody points it out, that's when you get mad. do you get what i mean? somebody come up here, they be like, oh, you being a little -- oh, what you mean by that? yeah, you being a -- [ laughter ] >>