Does anyone know who Dick Gregory is?

He was a standup comic in the sixties, was involved in the Civil Rights movement. Later he had a lot of unorthodox ideas about health and nutrition, and spent most of his time promoting that. IDK if he's still alive.

i really only know of him because he was part of either Richard Murphy or Eddie Prior stand-up routines. i get those two confused.

He was part of the new wave of black comedians in the '60s, along with Bill Cosby, Godfrey Cambridge, Flip Wilson, and others. Some felt he was the most talented of them all. FWIW when Mel Brooks decided he needed a black writer for Blazing Saddles, Gregory was his first choice. But he turned the job down.

As previously noted Gregory went sorta funny in the head in the '70s. I'm not really familiar with his work. I do know one thing: Gregory wrote an autobiography which he entitled N****r (no asterisks). When his offended mother asked him why he called it that, he replied, "Don't worry Mama. Now whenever somebody says that word, they're just plugging my book."

yeah, he's another black comedian from st.Louis(red foxx) who became an activist, and fought hard for blacks and their rights.


i thought he came to St.Louis during Ferguson shite, to protest City hall in downtown.

The Black Comic?

I've heard he can be a real Dick.

For some of the older posters here who remember the Cedar Grove riots that broke out in Shreveport back in the late Eighties, you will remember that he came to town and stayed for awhile. I can't remember what he actually accomplished but he was in the news for awhile and stayed in Shreveport for awhile during that time.

There was a line in white men can't jump that referenced him

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Sidney Deane: Oh man shut your anorexic malnutrition tapeworm-having overdose on Dick Gregory Bahamian diet-drinking arse up. Leave me alone!

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