All in the show biz family. Also a humor columnist for the American-Statesman and a prized after-dinner speaker, Cactus Pryor was a regular presence on the radio from 1943 until 2008.

BET+ has announced a premiere date for Brewster’s Millions: Christmas, their upcoming reimagining of the 1985 Richard Pryor film. The holiday movie stars China Anne McClain, Tequan Richmond and ...

For unlike the shock-troop comedy that panders to a snickering audience, Richard Pryor’s work had authenticity, purpose, an odd dignity. His memorable representatives of both the black and white ...

As Pryor often said, the larger-than-life (and lower-than-life) characters who came through his family’s businesses supplied a lifetime of material. That life would become his routine.