Ms. Vee, I apologize for calling you a brotha...Sistah. I respect your opinion and just as you said this isn't high school....then maybe your not a comedian...To most of us It's like being on the Varsity team and everyone is a 1st & 2nd Stringer. Everyone knows your name(or at least in my case
) And everyone wants to score for dear old Dad (Richard Pryor) who was the School's only alumni that got the game and the sport noticed. This is like high school, with different students working to pass, and with some bookworms working hard doing it right, and with some asshole sitting next to them copying there hard work; and getting credit. Everyone knows who the smart kids are, and everyone knows who the skaters are. I know that I will make a name for myself there will never be anyone like me, but if you seek something just for fame or money it will come and go. I've been a comedian for a long time and I've seen people come and go. Comics you've seen on t.v. and in the movies, I know one who's now a janitor in St. Louis, another that moved to New Orleans, and three others on crack; and they wanted to be famous. This is a art form, a way of expression. If you listened or watched any of Richards tapes or concert films, he was a expressionist! Not only of the strugles of the black community, but of the age group of his time, and he mostly expressed himself to his audience through his eyes; with all his questions, doubts,frustrations, and passions; delivered through characters, stories and his stage persona. George Carlin express' his anger at the government the same way. This is a art, a craft and if you loose that, then the greedy, will always be needy. Good luck and god bless you in your search to express yourself, as i often do...successfully..Robbie Peron
