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 ove