Amazon.com: Richard Pryor: The Life and Legacy of a.  So this book is written as if you are a college student and writing a paper about the context of his material.  It is strange to hear it broken down for people who don’t understand the point of his humor.  I didn’t like this book.  If you have to explain humor then what is the point?  The fact that it had a social force is almost secondary if people don’t get the humor first.