and it never stopped. [ cheers and applause ] murphy: richard is the rawest mother[bleep] in show business. richard is the one that made me want to do comedy. i wanted to be richard so bad, i used to go out onstage when i was 15 and talk and act and walk and do everything like richard pryor. my mother would sit there and watch her little 15-year-old son onstage saying some outlandish [bleep] my whole act back then was about taking a [bleep] 'cause that's all i had done at 15. zoglin: i think every african-american comedian, to some degree, was inspired by richard pryor. eddie murphy did get into using four-letter words more out of a sense of, "i'm trying to shock you." i got a lot of people from other countries that have seen my films that come over to the united states 'cause in new york, it's like a tourist place, and they get hbo, and they catch "delirious," and they can't speak english and try to do my act on the street, and all they got is the curses. i got foreigners from all over the world walking up going, "eddie murphy! [bleep] you!" [ laughter ] i love it! suck my [bleep] huh?! [ cheers and applause ] suck it, you black mother[bleep]"