The Man That Redefined Stand Up Comedy
Hope I'm funny, because it's my birthday...
December 1, 1940
On this date, Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was born in Peoria, Illinois. Whew! What a name. The world should have known it couldn’t hold a man with five names!
And after a rough start in life, (his mother reportedly worked as a prostitute and his father was in and out of his life), Pryor was raised by his grandmother, a rather pri…
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