As director Richard Linklater notedduring a screening in 2019,Jo Jo Dancer Your Life Is Calling is a “brave” film that’s been unjustly overlooked, even by Pryor fans.

In his memoir,Room to Dream, Lynch wrote of the comedian, “Richard Pryor is someone else I saw on a talk show and kind of fell in love with. He’d been through a lot in his life but he had a ...

Richard Pryor played a huge role in Eddie Murphy’s comedy career. The late actor was a major reason why Murphy wanted to be a comic in the first place. “I have a really funny, funny family.