His beige pants and olive-drab pullover droop over a scarecrow's frame that was never exactly beefy. His movement, what little there is, is slow and determined.
"It was a revolution that perhaps only Pryor, with his unusual background and astonishing array of dramatic and comic skills, could have accomplished."īut the revolutionary looks a little wispy this afternoon. "He was the first African-American stand-up comedian to speak candidly and successfully to integrated audiences the way black people joked among themselves when most critical of America," according to Mr. Pryor's humor in his book "On the Real Side," a definitive study of African-American comedy. "It was nothing short of revolutionary," Mel Watkins writes of Mr.
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