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For the last few months, a lot of people have been linking to the famous “First Black President” sketch from The Richard Pryor Show, his network TV show that produced some good sketches, a lot of censor battles, and only four episodes. Seeing the sketch again, one thing that jumps out at you is that for a show that bombed, this show had a lot of then-unknown people who went on to successful careers: among the writer-performers on the show were Robin Williams — before Mork, before anything — Marsha Warfield, Tim Reid, Sandra Bernhard and John Witherspoon.