You look at Richard Pryor and Robert Klein and George Carlin and Richard Lewis - those guys were so smart, they were the thinking-man stand-ups.

It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.

When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.

The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.

As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.

People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.