re: Is Richard Pryor the greatest comic of all time?

He was supporting some pretty pricey drug habits at the time. I think after his freebasing incident, he came home and sent off like $400k to one of the guys he bought from. Dude used to just buy entire supplies off of people. He needed every dollar he could get. At the end of the day, though, it's probably just tough to accept that your star is fading. It's really hard to stay relevant, and the second you're not relevant anymore, those big checks that fund your crazy lifestyle stop coming.

That's why I have hope for Eddie. The shite he says about Norbit is worse than anything any critic, viewer, or anyone else could ever say. He basically has said "I'm tired of sucking so until I won't suck, I'm not going to waste my time." Seeing him do a couple of minutes on Cosby when he accepted his Mark Twain award was like watching a time portal open up and the old Eddie Murphy step out... except with a much less hilarious laugh.