Richard Pryor Teaches TikTok (And An Ignorant Journalist) About Poverty

Pryor’s polite takedown of a TV news legend has gone viral with Gen Z
Richard Pryor Teaches TikTok (And An Ignorant Journalist) About Poverty

Richard Pryor would have some serious words for Marie Antoinette.

Much like Antoinette, journalism pioneer Dorothy Fuldheim, deemed the “First Lady of Television News,” didn’t actually say “Let Them Eat Cake" when discussing the condition of the American poor with The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in June, 1978 prompted a response from the comic legend that was sharper than the blade of any guillotine. 

A video clip of the back-and-forth between Pryor replied.

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