Richard Pryor plays three roles ... In Los Angeles, Leroy ends up working for the same company that fired him back home; he is a manager at the company, but is now distant from his former pals.

The stand-ups of today are still feeling the shockwaves of Richard Pryor ... and biases along the way. 6. “Wino Dealing With Dracula” (from That Nigger’s Crazy!) Pryor’s ability to ...

His films included "Stir Crazy," "Silver Streak," "Which Way Is Up?" and "Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip." Throughout his career, Pryor focused on racial inequality, once joking as the ...

Richard Pryor, whose blunt, blue and brilliant comedic confrontations confidently tackled what many stand-up comics before him deemed too shocking to broach, died early Saturday. He was 65.

Simply, there is pre-Richard Pryor comedy and post-Richard Pryor comedy, and the latter is filled with honesty and sharpness that Pryor’s students picked up from ... due to the way it takes ...

Charles Case invented what you know as stand-up comedy. But everyone you consider great at telling jokes into a microphone is doing comedy like Richard Pryor. At the beginning of his comedy career ...

For comedy fans of a certain age, watching VHS copies of the 1982 concert film "Richard Pryor ... successful stand-up special ...