>> you can just say that and talk about it but if i said it, wouldn't you get mad? >> i'd punch you out. >> richard pryor was influenced by redd foxx but brought some of the sensibility to the mainstream. the idea that a guy who had been developing this new, provocative racial material suddenly break through to a mainstream audience was a big moment. >> a lot of people here might be offended. so you should leave now. i'm going to say [ bleep ] and [ bleep ] and [ bleep ] and doodoo. >> pryor used profanity in a way that exceeded lenny bruce and the comics before him. he made the use of those terms seem to be part of everyday life and made the people listening to the comedy except the people saying them, be realistically who they were. this is the way the people really talked, changed low comedy into high art in a way no one had done before. >> i remember the mother