Barack Obama is the first black or African-American President of The United States Of America right? Wrong, Richard Pryor got there 30 years before him.

OK, so he was only President for a comedy sketch but still, it counts doesn’t it?

I’ve recently started watching 24 on DVD again and in the first series we have Senator David Palmer running for the White House, and the parallels with Obama are quite spooky.

I’m not saying 24 or indeed Richard Pryor helped Obama become President but maybe it was the start of a realization that it could one day become reality.

Compare this fake press conference to Obama’s first press conference and the outcome is quite different, which is a good thing seeing as Pryor’s ends in a riot about his mother!