![]() This identity crisis came to head in 1967, when Pryor, already regularly doing cocaine after being introduced to it by a sex worker name Tia Maria, famously flamed out on stage in front of none other than Rat Packer Dean Martin. “So how do you want to end up? Have you thought about that? Do you want a career you’re proud of? Or do you want to end up a spitting wad like Jerry Lewis?” At a party one night, Marx gave Pryor a talking-to. ‘You sound just like Bill Cosby.’”īut while Rickles may have been amused, Groucho Marx was not. “Don Rickles came backstage and praised my act,” he remembered. ![]() Modeling even his speaking patterns after Cosby, Pryor was soon called out by a few comedic legends. ![]() “My routine included harmless spoofs of life in the ghetto,” he writes, “such as when I pretended to be a doofus saying, ‘I heard a knock on the door.’ I said to my wife, ‘There’s a knock on the door.’ And my wife said, ‘That’s peculiar. In 1966, Pryor’s career was boosted when crooner Bobby Darin signed him as the opening act for his show at the Flamingo in Vegas. ![]()
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