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>> well, i think comedians, what we love about richard pryor, what we love about chris rock or jerry- i think comedians often get credit or criticism for doing something that is just who they are. i'm from a small town in the midwest. i curse in everyday life, but if i'm talking about mini muffins, it's not necessary to curse. but that's what's authentic for me. i also love lewis black, and i want to hear him curse, i want to hear chris rock articulate things his way. because it's authentic for him. >> byron: you're 57 years old. you're having a wonderful career. did you imagine you'd be in this place? because you were a corporate guy. >> some of it is, i was very much raised to seek security. my father was the first to go to college. security was wearing a coat and tie. you know, i was in my early 20s and my mother died. it was this devastating thing that really, you know, made me question a lot of things. she died when she was 53. so if i had this desire to pursue stand-up and acting, i was going to go for it. but i did not have an expectation that i would be able to do stand-up or

which -- richard pryor -- the great richard pryor.d just turn to each other and talk and that's what i did throughout all my stand-up, thinking that's what everyone did. a lot of stand-ups don't do that actually >> seth: it's very hard. you're one of my favorites at doing that i remember seeing you live and -- and realizing how you were, in the body of stand-up, doing what seemed like sketch comedy almost. >> yeah. >> seth: you felt like it was a visualization of all these characters on stage. >> and that's where i came from. i came from very monty python influenced sketch comedy "just playing one character" with this kind of voice. "and then playing another character" with this kind of voice in a different sketch. you know and then some other voice. and a different physicality, but now they're all together talking to each other in, like, a weird chess game and in the dickens, i sometimes adlib as estella or pip or magwitch i make things up in dickensian speak. [ laughter ] >> seth: yeah. >> which is little easter eggs for people who

i mean, you can find rolling stone covers where it was like richard pryor, lily tomlin, and they are most dangerous comedians doing the most dangerous stuff. they both immersed themselves in characters. the very first lily tomlin special on nbc 1974. they both won emmy awards. so did its producer, a guy named lorne michaels. and based on the strength of that special, the lily special. oh, he got the pilot for saturday night live. then roseanne, roseanne, dana. i don't know where you get it, how you get it or who actually milks the dogs. and i don't care to. hi a saturday night live. definitely early on. amazing that right out of the gate it was laraine newman and jane curtin and gilda radner. and now candy. candy they could definitely hang with the guys. they were just as important and they were hilarious. hey studmuffins want to make bouncy , bouncy. they had three female performers and three female writers, which if you look at the comedy landscape at that time, is unheard of. what made saturday night live different from those other shows was our show was the first one to really ha

. >> jimmy: richard pryor. >> i do know who richard pryor is. >> jimmy: i know, but you haven't met himnd one who's alive. muhammad ali, no. oh, boy. oh, just finding out? [ laughter ] michael jordan. you ever meet michael jordan? >> i have not met mr. m.j., i would love to, though, he's super cool. >> jimmy: yeah, me too. [ laughter ] here's one. he happens to be here tonight. seal, have you met seal? >> i have not met seal tonight or ever. >> jimmy: he's in the building. >> i'm doing so bad. >> jimmy: will you go out, meet him, come back and tell us how it went? [ laughter ] all right, you're going to meet a lot of people along the way. i have no doubt about that. it's great to have you here. >> so nice. >> jimmy: good luck in college. i hope the food improves. >> please, can you help us out? we're really struggling. >> jimmy: i'm going to get right to work on that. [ laughter ] >> thank you. thank you for having me. >> jimmy: storm reid, everybody. her movie is called "missing." it opens in theaters friday. we'll be right back with seal. >> jimmy: thanks to rob lowe and storm reid. a

. >> jimmy: richard pryor? >> he would freefall. >> jimmy: what does that mean?but everybody ain't funny. [ laughter ] from hollywood -- ll cool j say said, from harlem to hollywood, but is he good? i want to be good for y'all all the time. >> jimmy: you are very good. [ cheers and applause ] you are one of the best. >> i love you, man. >> jimmy: tracy morgan, everybody. we'll be right back! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: what a night. thanks to david letterman, thanks to tracy morgan. i love you dearly. you can see tracy at the new york comedy festival on november 12th. apologies to matt damon. we ran out of time. do you have any thoughts on matt damon? >> uh -- he's good. >> jimmy: oh. >> he still owe me money, though. >> jimmy: oh, he does? yeah, that sounds right. tomorrow night, mila kunis and ramy youssef with music from future. "nightline" is next. thanks for watching, good night! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >>> this is "nightline." >> byron: tonight, plea for freedom. >> journalism is not a crime. >> we want our son back. >> a

it would be ridiculous if you would be a cross between flip wilson and richard pryor. be flailing and not of the quick. >> when -- jason rantz, the sharks are out there and the whistle is blowing . what is jason rantz doing? >> the doctors going to have a field day with this one. i'm going to look around and that there is a child thinks to me, i'm going to be honest, i'm out. i'm sorry. >> that is honest the police would be at your doors door soo as the short -- show was over. seth schachner, what is your tactic here quick. >> of a document i'll little bi politely and keep swimming and be cool. i would want to get his attention and just keep on keeping to the shore. can you diagnose that? really? can you give jason rantz -- sacrificing a child to chase a sharpie or. >> i'm curious. me, i am not moving. i forget if it is a bear or a shark so one of them doesn't want you to move so i'm standin there until the shark has gone away. if you start running out of the water, that is a target. >> you just took the wind out o my sale. i would do the exact same thing which is abso

. >> the richard pryor show was ahead of its time. >> you could watch city hall every night. >> berniec's paradise. >> laughter is healing. laughter purifies the air. >> and cnn's senior entertainment writer lisa res pers france joins us now. as we saw in that clip, some of the biggest names in tv comedy have been black comedians, red fox, rich pryor, eddie murphy, dave chappelle. why has comedy been such a successful way to make a mark in television? >> because historically black performers have faced all types of barriers getting taken seriously in hollywood. so they had to use comedy as a way to even get into the industry. if you can make people laugh, if you can tickle their funny bone, then you can get people's attention. and that's what unfortunately a lot of stars in the past and some stars today have had to do in order to break into the business. >> and who's breaking ground in tv today? who do you have your eyes on? >> well, you know, it's funny because there's so many. i don't want to start naming names because i don't want people to flame me on social media. but, you know, i

richard pryor killed that roles by the way, best movie ever. the point is trump has always been able to use his bravado and showmanship to avoid repercussions for his actions. but now at age 77, he is facing a situation that he cannot talk his way out of, with no powerful dad to bail him out and no roy cohn to fix his legal peril. and according to people who know him, donald trump is afraid he could actually wind up in prison linebacker his oath keepers and proud boy supporters. perhaps orange jumpsuit trump may be a more apt addition to the next series of his digital trading cards. with nowhere else to turn, he is now relying on his loyal followers in congress, like speaker mike kevin to somehow save him. >> congress, if you will, please investigate the political witch hunts against me currently being brought by the corrupt doj and fbi who are totally out of control. >> under mccarthy's leadership, they may try, but it will do trump no good as he faces jack smith's multiple investigations. plus those current and possible prosecutions in new yo

. >> seth: that's like data from star trek reviewing a richard pryor album. [ light laughter ] don'twrong, i still prefer joyless tucker to when he actually laughs. [ light laughter ] oh, my god, that does sound more terrifying than hearing a bear snort a line of cocaine. [ light laughter ] that's two "cocaine bear" references i wonder if there's gonna be a third? we'll have to wait and see it's a long closer look. [ light laughter ] i also love that even as recently as 2020, tucker was still pretending it was a some sort of grand mystery why people hated donald trump like even if you forget. all the racist, lying and corruption and bigotry how about the fact he was just annoying as [ bleep ]. like, if he was just a guy you met at a party, after 20 minutes of listening to him scream uninterrupted about injecting bleach, and windmills killing birds, and toilets not flushing, and how everyone loves him because he's the greatest ever you'd pull your spouse aside and say "can we please just go home? this guy won't shut the hell up." and then they'd say, "we can't he's our uber driver he