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10 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Richard Pryor: Live in Concert. 1979 1h 18m Not Rated. 8.0 (5.8K) Rate. Richard Pryor's classic 1979 concert film has him discussing a wide range of topics, including race, the police and his favorite target -- himself. Director Jeff Margolis Stars Richard Pryor Patti LaBelle Huey P. Newton. 2.
4 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Richard Pryor: Live in Concert. 1979 1h 18m Not Rated. 8.0 (5.8K) Rate. Richard Pryor's classic 1979 concert film has him discussing a wide range of topics, including race, the police and his favorite target -- himself. Director Jeff Margolis Stars Richard Pryor Patti LaBelle Huey P. Newton. 2.
The first-ever Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor was presented to him in 1998. He was listed at number one on Comedy Central's list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked him first on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.
Apr 3, 2014 · (1940-2005) Who Was Richard Pryor? A class clown in school and a community theater actor in his teens, Richard Pryor became a successful stand-up comedian, television writer and movie...
He was listed at number one on Comedy Central's list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked him first on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time. Pryor's body of work includes numerous concert films and recordings.
- Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor
- December 1, 1940, Peoria, Illinois, U.S.
- 1963–1999
- 7, including Rain
- “Mudbone—Little Feets” (from ... Is It Something I Said?) Growing up as he did in a brothel outside Chicago, Pryor spent his formative years around plenty of bawdy, shady and chemically-altered people.
- “Freebase” (from Richard Pryor: Live at the Sunset Strip) One of the most harrowing events of Pryor’s life happened in 1980 when, after spending days freebasing cocaine, he covered his torso in rum and set himself on fire.
- “I Met The President” (from Here And Now) The political comedy Pryor trucked usually dealt with the racial divides that are still hurting our world. In this instance, he goes right for the jugular, using his face-to-face meeting with then-President Reagan as a leaping point into a discussion of the absurdity of nuclear combat and the Cold War.
- “Acid” (from Bicentennial Nigger) There wasn’t a whole lot of enlightenment that happened when Pryor decided to try LSD for the first (and presumably last) time.
