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the fate he's currently
suffering.
But where Pryor has a doctor's
note to excuse the last couple
of decades, other comics who
rose to prominence around the
same time as he did and, like
him, aspired to the rank of
social satirist - or at least a
notch up from Jerry Lewis - are
not so easily forgiven. It's a
world gone mad: a world in
which the phrase "presidential
seal" has become a Three's
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