"I’m for anything that gets you through the night—be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels."

"The first time I ever saw a vagina up close, I thought somebody had been skinned alive."

"I'm a black man in America. And that's a tough job."

"They always say the black man has a hard-on in the courtroom. That's why they always say, 'All rise.'"

"But the material was deemed too controversial — one sketch had Pryor totally nude but with his genitalia blacked out — and the series was cancelled after just four episodes."