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How Richard Pryor Beat Bill Cosby and Transformed America

Profane and Profound

Biographer Scott Saul talks about spending 8 years studying Pryor and why he never got bored, why Pryor is still electrifying, and what he would have thought of Bill Cosby. Read an excerpt from his book below.

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