Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin' is the first stand-up act of Richard Pryor to be filmed out of the four that were released in total. This film was filmed in 1971 but not released until 1985 ...

Yet here’s an anniversary fewer will mark and no one will celebrate: Soon, we will have been without Richard ... Pryor to recover from. Pryor calls himself Jo Jo Dancer in the movie and ...

That said, the perfection of what he does in “Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip” was not easily achieved, and Pryor had a lot of help. The movie is less a documentary record of a ...