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34. "Where the white women at" by Richard Pryor

Reply to IrishBubbaLiberal (Original post)

Fri Feb 7, 2025, 07:50 PM

Feb 2025

Pryor was a writer for the film, and was supposed to have the part that went to Cleavon Little. Even Mel Brooks couldn’t convince the film financiers to let him have the part.

I would like to see him deliver those lines Cleavon did well, but not Pryor-level well.

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