Richard Pryor’s Essential Albums Released as Box Set The LPs, reissued by Rhino, span 1974 to 1983 and include some of the late comic's most iconic routines.

Six of Richard Pryor ’s comedy albums from 1974 to 1983 have been compiled into a 7xLP box set titled I Hope I’m Funny: The Warner Albums. The expansive reissue arrives tomorrow, April 18th ...

Pryor, legal name Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor Sr., died on December 10, 2005 after his third heart attack in Los Angeles. He was 65.

Scott Saul, who authored the 2014 book “Becoming Richard Pryor,” wrote the liner notes of the box set. Winning five Grammys and an Emmy during his lifetime as a comedian and actor, Pryor’s ...

Though he suffered in his later years from multiple sclerosis, Pryor died in 2005 at 65 from a heart attack. Jennifer jokes that her late husband would be "rolling over in his ashes" if he were ...

Gregory deemed Pryor one of three American geniuses of comedy, along with Lenny Bruce and Mark Twain. Among the routines captures in the box set are “Wino & Junkie;” “Mudbone Goes to Hollywood” ...