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>> 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 red fox but what he did was bring some of that sensibility to the mainstream. guy developing new provocative racial material suddenly break through to mainstream audience was a big moment. >> lot of people here might be offended. 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 ...

Really 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 [ bleep ], he could make a mother [ bleep ] laugh on a funeral on sunday christmas day. >> it was about making sure he told the truth. he said it on several occasions, that's what he was trying to do. >> my dad would always say, if only you knew lenny bruce, i didn't understand that until much later. i think because for my dad that was kind of the beginning of speaking truth to power they say, politically and consciously. >> also like to thank the ca...

Male corpse. these corpses, because i know these guys, laying out on slabs, i know life was tough. hard to live up to. faced death and glad i went through it and now ready to spend eternity in heaven and be with jesus. ♪ rock of ages >> hey what is this [ bleep ]? i don't believe this, there's a guy's [ bleep ] in my ass. >> sitting there going, what's this? that moment, boy that was funny. >> no laughing matter. that's what critics are saying about some routines passed off as comedy these days, a lot of it on television. is it the cutting edge of social

Came along, less and less barriers to break through, try to reach further and further to do something that would shock the audience. >> sam kinison embodies the '80s era of comedy, people doing characters that were extensions of themselves. he was sam kinison but on stage he was sam kinison the character as opposed to sam kinison the man. >> ever been married? what's your name? michael? michael if you ever think about getting married, think you met the right woman and want to settle down and change your life, do me a favor mike. remember this face. ahhh! >> it was the expression of the heartbr...

Monster put it out like that, great, it's relief valve. >> sam didn't care if the audience hated him and would bait them. challenge them to leave if they didn't like it. and when you don't care, that's frequently when you get the best results. >> very seldom someone comes along who is unusually different and gifted and creative and presents something that's unusual. right. and money from last week? >> sam kinison took comedy to the extreme in shouting, language and taboo subjects he went after. >> i read the paper, they said that a group of homosexual necrophiliacs have been going around mortu...