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's stand-up shows. Debuting on the 1975 album '' ...Is It Something I Said?''. Mudbone is perhaps Pryor's most famous creation. A

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born in

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, his character was an alter-ego for Pryor. During Pryor's concert film, '' Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip'', the audience begins to yell "Do Mudbone!" and Pryor reluctantly resurrects the character.

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