'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't go back to the way it was after 'The Simpsons' came out.

The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.

People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.

As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.

I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.

When you ask people who their favorite comedian is or favorite African-American comedian, people generally say Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, or Richard Pryor. Redd Foxx gets left out a lot.