Among the extras on the Criterion release is a full episode of “The Dick Cavett Show” from 1985 ... “Becoming Richard Pryor,” Scott Saul explains how, despite the city being used in ...

That's why he returned three times to the medium of the concert film. It was one thing to listen to a Richard Pryor on a turntable--as many did in clouds of weed smoke in basements during the ...

Richard Pryor helped define modern stand-up ... But I was hiding my personality. I just wanted to be in show business so bad I didn't care how. It started bothering me - I was being a robot comic, ...