{"id":65,"date":"2009-01-05T16:02:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T21:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/?p=65"},"modified":"2018-09-10T16:08:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:08:02","slug":"my-comedian-hero-whoopi-goldberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/video\/all-interviews\/my-comedian-hero-whoopi-goldberg\/65\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Goldberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-65-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/whoopi1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/whoopi1.mp4\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/whoopi1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><strong>Whoopi Goldberg<\/strong>: Richard Pryor, oh my God.  Richard Pryor, again, it\u2019s one of those things where you hate to keep saying it but he\u2019s black!  And young.  He was black and young and so were we.  And so a new generation of humor came from Richard.  \u2018Cause when you watch him on some of the more staged shows like <em>The Ed Sullivan Show<\/em>, the humor\u2019s there but there\u2019s something just different.  You know, and when you got the albums, you heard a whole different kind of thing going on because he could tell you a story, tell you the story of big Bertha\u2019s behind and we all knew a big Bertha.  Even all the white kids knew a Big Bertha, you know, in every neighborhood except the .  . . No, every neighborhood has that wino.  Now maybe he isn\u2019t on the corner, maybe the wino is parking his car coming from work, but you go over to those folks\u2019 house and it\u2019s the same guy, whether he\u2019s on the street or he\u2019s, you know, just come home from work from having . . .Again, you know, it\u2019s universal, Richard was universal and innovative because no one had ever done it the way that he did it.  Not who was black.<br \/>\nMort Sahl told amazing stories but not from the neighborhood, you know.  Richard was from a specific neighborhood and people went, \u201cHey, you\u2019re talking about me.  That\u2019s, that\u2019s me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/whoopi1.mp4 Whoopi Goldberg: Richard Pryor, oh my God. Richard Pryor, again, it\u2019s one of those things where you hate to keep saying it but he\u2019s black! And young. He was black and young and so were we. 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