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 ... Surprisingly, it was Groucho Marx who brought this home, telling Pryor at a party: ‘Do you want a career you’re proud of, or do you want to end up a ...