As director Richard Linklater notedduring a screening in 2019,Jo Jo Dancer Your Life Is Calling is a “brave” film that’s been unjustly overlooked, even by Pryor fans.

Richard Pryor movies were exceptionally popular in the 1970s and 1980s, but that was a problem for TV networks — the comedian’s foul-mouthed jokes were hilarious in theaters but could cause a ...

Lasting comedy genius: 46 years later, a Richard Pryor routine becomes a viral Spotify hit In 1979, the New York Times said of the film, "It's not Mr. Pryor's individual lines that make his show ...

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The Richard Pryor biopic has been gestating for a long time. Director of 48 Hours Walter Hill was set to co-write and direct the movie back in 2005, when Pryor was still alive.

The two and a half hour hilarious, emotions-tugging play catapults theater goers into the landscape of Pryor’s life from 1967 and 1982. The play is hosted in Chicago, up the road from Pryor’s ...