R.I.P. Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor 3rd
i used to refuse to watch happy days when i was a kid in the 1970s (the "fonz" craze TOTALLY annoyed me: i'll maintain to this day that the show went downhill after they wrote richie cunningham's brother out of the series).
this dude fred silverman, who ran nbc, eventually tried to counterprogram happy days with the richard pryor show, which ran into all sorts of troubles with network censors, ended up getting low ratings, and was cancelled after only a handful of episodes.
i can recall no more than 1 other kid at school who was watching the pryor show instead of tv's number one program. ha...
thank you, richard pryor, for warping my mind at such a very young age.
may you rest in peace.
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this dude fred silverman, who ran nbc, eventually tried to counterprogram happy days with the richard pryor show, which ran into all sorts of troubles with network censors, ended up getting low ratings, and was cancelled after only a handful of episodes.
i can recall no more than 1 other kid at school who was watching the pryor show instead of tv's number one program. ha...
thank you, richard pryor, for warping my mind at such a very young age.
may you rest in peace.
listen
