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David Lynch Goes Hip Hop With Danger Mouse
David Moats , April 22nd, 2009 07:16

Are we about to hear the veteran director rapping? Also, take a look at our gallery of great Lynchian cameos

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Richard Pryor

Lost Highway

Comedy legend Richard Pryor was dying of muscular dystrophy at the time of this cameo; you would barely be able to recognise the gaunt, stuttering man you see here as the cocksure stand-up who invented modern observational comedy as we know it. It might seem an exploitative move by Lynch but if anyone could find the comedy in his own predicament, it would be Pryor.