Has anyone drawn a correlation between Dave Chappelle‘s The Closer and Richard Pryor‘s brief performance at a gay rights fundraiser at the Hollywood Bowl on 9.18.77?
Pryor talked about about having sucked a dick and “fucked some good ass-hole” back in ’52 (when Pryor was 11 or 12). And yet, angered by some racist behavior he’d witnessed backstage, Pryor also shared some harsh thoughts about his perceptions of racism (by way of indifference and whatnot) in the gay community.
Please read this excerpt from from Scott Saul‘s “Becoming Richard Pryor”, posted in the Guardian on 1.11.15.
By Pryor standards, Chappelle’s Closer material was a day at the beach.
