{"id":141,"date":"2013-04-14T04:11:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T04:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elliotsmith.us\/elliotblog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2023-08-02T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:03:56","slug":"the-vulnerable-richard-pryor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elliotsmith.us\/elliotblog\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"the vulnerable Richard Pryor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;&lt;I think the big lesson that Richard Pryor really taught us was how to be vulnerable on stage, and I don&#8217;t think that very many comics have picked that up, cause I think that&#8217;s really scary.<\/p>\n<p>He is able to speak the truth on stage in a way that I haven&#8217;t ever seen anyone else do &#8212; real innermost thought stuff, and such utter compassion.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that he had the self awareness and the thought to experience that, and then want to share that experience, that to me makes such a valuable comic, someone who&#8217;s curious about bettering themselves and learning something about themselves and is able to impart that knowledge to other people, it&#8217;s really quite an art form.&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Art of Stand Up - BBC HD [8\/10]\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZzGwf471V90?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jackson Browne   The Load Out and Stay   Live BBC 1978\" width=\"678\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/scsJZ67ssDY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">We&#8217;ve got rural scenes &amp; magazines<br>We&#8217;ve got truckers on the cb<br>We&#8217;ve got Richard Pryor on the video<br>We got time to think of the ones we love<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;&lt;I think the big lesson that Richard Pryor really taught us was how to be vulnerable on stage, and I don&#8217;t think that very many comics have picked that up, cause I think that&#8217;s really scary. He is able to speak the truth on stage in a way that I haven&#8217;t ever seen anyone else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-psychology","category-public-speaking"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elliotsmith.us\/elliotblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elliotsmith.us\/elliotblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elliotsmith.us\/elliotblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elliotsmith.us\/elliotblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elliotsmith.us\/elliotblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/elliotsmith.us\/elliotblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/elliotsmith.us\/elliotblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elliotsmith.us\/elliotblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elliotsmith.us\/elliotblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elliotsmith.us\/elliotblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}