He also noted that Pryor "despise(d)" Chase:[2] After all the bullshit I've been put through to get here, the fucking cross-examination Lorne subjects me to, I decide to do a job interview of my own.
The white personnel interviewer suggests they do some word association, so he can test if the black man's fit to employ.
[8] Today described it as "[o]ne of (Pryor's) most famous sketches" and a "signature moment() in SNL history",[9] while Vulture observed that its "climax still feels dangerous and revelatory".
[10] Pryor biographer Scott Saul stated that the use of the phrase 'dead honky' "transforms the word association test from a language game into a contest of wills, in which righteous courage is bound to prevail.
"[1] Cultural historian Nick Marx described this as a transition from "a war of words (into) the threat of bodily harm", which he compared to "an articulation of a range of strategies for black oppositionality — from resentful protest to violent revolt".