The New Yorker will reach 100. Yet here’s an anniversary fewer will mark and no one will celebrate: Soon, we will have been without Richard Pryor for two decades. He died in 2005, and as the New ...

Richard Pryor helped define modern stand-up; elevating it from an entertainment to an art with his unflinchingly frank use of his own life, however unflattering, into his coruscating routines. And ...