- colored. - redneck. (audience laughing) - jungle bunny. - peckerwood. (audience laughing) - spade! - honkey! (audience laughing) - nigger. - dead honkey. (audience laughing) - richard s voice was so powerful, nbc gave him the richard pryor show. (upbeat jazzy music) - so the richard pryor show was ahead of its time. they were doing sketches about star wars. they were doing sketches about a black president. that sketch show was incredible. - yeah, what is it? - mr. president, you ve been courtin an awful lot of white women. will this continue? - mm. (audience laughing) as long as i can keep it up. (audience laughing) - for the kids that are coming up now, look to the dave chappelle show, and to me, richard was the chappelle show
(audience laughing) - spade! - honkey! (audience laughing) - nigger. - dead honkey. (audience laughing) - richard s voice was so powerful, nbc gave him the richard pryor show. (upbeat jazzy music) - so the richard pryor show was ahead of its time. they were doing sketches about star wars. they were doing sketches about a black president. that sketch show was incredible. - yeah, what is it? - mr. president, you ve been courtin an awful lot of white women. will this continue? - mm. (audience laughing) as long as i can keep it up. (audience laughing) - for the kids that are coming up now, look to the dave chappelle show, and to me, richard was the chappelle show before the chappelle show. and he knew how to take what was deemed taboo, what was deemed dangerous, and make it hilarious.
- you got to get down and say things like, excuse me. (audience laughing) would you move out of my way? and you walk like this, check this walk. (audience laughing) - what people don t know is that richard pryor insisted upon writing a lot of his own material for that show. so he didn t rely on the white writers to write his skits. he said, i m gonna do it myself. i m gonna bring paul mooney in to come in and help me write this. so they write these amazing sketches that are talking about what blackness is. - it s just a word association. i ll throw you out a few words, anything that comes to your mind, just throw back at me, okay? - and i say blackness because that s exactly what is was. it was about blackness. - colored. - redneck. (audience laughing) - jungle bunny. - peckerwood. (audience laughing) - spade! - honkey! (audience laughing) - nigger. - dead honkey. (audience laughing) - richard s voice was so powerful,
you often had to ask for these albums because they wouldn t be out that you could just go and pick them up out of the bin. they were often hidden or in a certain part of the store where you needed some sort of assistance from the people in the store because they were thought to be too scandalous. i ve heard several of them, and it s a miracle that you re able to select lines from them to do on television. [ laughter ] watkins: the party records that redd foxx did were underground, but underground to mainstream society. so the mainstream didn t know anything about it and didn t want any part of it at that point. richard: there ain t no way to get an ambulance in the ghetto, right, unless you call up, there s five niggers killing a white woman. some dudes would talk to you while they kicked your ass, right? why you want to [bleep] with me, man? [ laughter ] [bleep] somebody get this nigger offa me. what? i didn t know the nigger was blind. [ laughter ] shore: i don t know how you fee
fred: ain t nothing on earth uglier than a 90 year old white woman. drew carey: he was like a black archie bunker, like old school. soraya: there s a reason why sanford is irascible. sanford: a court is where you come to get justice aint it? and that s what i m looking for is justice. soraya: sanford has like real problems with american racism and the ways that it plays out in his life fred: why don t you arrest some white drivers? cop: i do. fred: you do? well, where are they? look at all these niggers in here! tracy morgan: redd foxx was one of the first to say nigger on tv. said it twice that episode. it s real. so we use it as a part of our language. and i don t know if it s right or wrong, i don t get into that. jaleel: sanford and son resonated with me because the actors spoke like black people i knew aunt esther: lamont, you know i d do anything for you. fred: tell her to have her face fixed.