>> even after slavery it was not permissible for black people to openly make fun of, mock, ridicule white people. by the time you goat richard pryor, richard pryor decides he's not going to speak in code. he's going to talk to mainstream audiences the way black people talk in private. >> had a choke hold here, though. they choke -- to death. that means you be dead when they're through. did you know that? they're going, yeah, we -- white, no, i had no idea. yeah, two grab your legs, one grab your head. oh, [ bleep ], broke it. >> what it does is give people who have never had a way to talk about their struggle, because you can quote a richard pryor joke. then it gives people who never thought about the black struggle a way to hear about it through humor. richard pryor is delivering it in a way that's funny so you go, ha, ha, ha, huh. i wonder if that's true.