Richard Pryor. Genious. I can remember him, a skinny young man, on Merv Griffin's Show in the afternoon, after school.
Merv would have put a bunch of disparate stuff in a box and then hand it over to Richard....... He would pick up something from the box, like a pair of goggles, and turn those goggles into an hysterical routine. Thing after thing out of the box, normal junk, turned into funny funny images.

He expanded my sense of posssibilities: good, bad, ugly, and billiant.

Thank you Sky, for starting this tribute thread.