For comedy fans of a certain age, watching VHS copies of the 1982 concert film "Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip" ...

He’d had a heart attack, which he later characterized in his 1979 stand-up classic ... “All I know is that I very badly want Richard Pryor to live.” Pryor recovered, of course, only ...

Richard Pryor's stand-up act includes his frank discussion about his freebasing addiction, as well as the infamous night on June 9, 1980 that he caught on fire.

He eventually had it, live on stage at the Alladin in Las Vegas in 1967 when he told the crowd of rich white swells, "What the fuck am I doing here?" In the new Showtime documentary Richard Pryor ...

Rain Pryor is celebrating the comedic legacy of her late father, Richard Pryor. The actress and writer, 52, is looking back on the groundbreaking achievements of her dad in the new A&E documentary ...

Filmed at the Hollywood Palladium in 1981, this is Pryor at the peak of his powers. Wearing a shocking orange suit, he regales an adoring audience with tales of his drug addiction, a trip to ...