The legendary stand-up’s five-minute bit is a master class in vulnerability, physicality, and reckoning with death. Analyzing Richard Pryor’s ‘Heart Attacks’ from his 1979 special ‘Live ...

Richard Pryor 1940–2005: ... “That Nigger’s Crazy”–excerpt from 1974 Richard Pryor album. After a trip to Africa in 1979, ... come on, those beatings, those people are resisting arrest.

Richard Pryor, whose blunt, blue and brilliant comedic confrontations confidently tackled what many stand-up comics before him deemed too shocking to broach, died early Saturday. He was 65.

19th May 1979: American comedian and actor Richard Pryor and Jennifer Lee, wearing cowboy hats and bolo ties, smile while at the annual SHARE party, held at the Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood ...