She’d be home for six months or so and then leave as if she was going shopping and not come back till six months later. Is your mother home? I’d like a blowjob.' "Tricks used to come through our neighbourhood. He was born to Gertrude Thomas, a bookkeeper for the local brothel, and LeRoy Jr (AKA Buck) Carter, an ex-Golden Gloves boxing champion turned pimp. The life of Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III began on 1 December 1940, in Peoria, Illinois. But Pryor had still not lost his edge or his considerable cojones. So the fastest tongue in the West was reduced to responding to questions via email over several weeks. Part of the "shit" he was not able to do was conduct an interview in person. That was the beginning of me not being able to do the shit anymore." And he scared the shit out of me, but when the director shouted, 'Run, Rich! Run!' I couldn’t move. "He was a trained bear but he was a big motherfucker with claws and teeth and shit. "We were doing a scene in which I was supposed to have a run-in with a real live bear," remembered Pryor. While the rest of the world thought Pryor a victim of a supersize cocaine habit, the proud comedian kept his ailment completely under wraps, and it wasn’t until he teamed up with old colleague Gene Wilder for Another You in 1991 that he realised it was time to tell the world. "But my brain told my legs to get up but the job order got lost around my waist. Feeling unusually exhausted, he was resting on a chair between takes when Michael Apted, the director, called for him to take his place. Pryor was first diagnosed with MS in 1986 while shooting the movie Critical Condition in LA. "It was as if God had all this shit left over from the other afflictions he created and decided to throw it all into one disease called MS," he said, before adding the punchline, "Kinda like a Saturday night special. At the time I spoke to him, he was living with multiple sclerosis. An undervalued master of understatement, Pryor failed to mention that he had also survived a humongous freebasing cocaine habit ‒ once setting himself on fire after smoking the drug ‒ seven marriages, and a quadruple heart bypass.
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