7. “Africa” (from Richard Pryor: Live at the Sunset Strip). His trip back to the Motherland was an affecting one for Pryor, which he expresses beautifully in this long bit from his 1982 ...

The new Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip 4K release from Sony gives fans a chance to see one of the comedian’s best comedy sets in pristine quality. Originally released in 1982, it was a ...

F or comedy fans of a certain age, watching VHS copies of the 1982 concert film "Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip" until the tape fell off of the spools was a rite of passage. Until Eddie ...

Six of Richard Pryor’s comedy albums from 1974 to 1983 have been compiled into a 7xLP box set titled I Hope I’m Funny: The Warner Albums. The expansive reissue arrives tomorrow, April 18th via ...

American comedian Richard Pryor (1940 – 2005) during a stage show, circa 1977. (Photo by Fotos International/Getty Images) *Richard Pryor fans are in for a treat as three of his albums ...

RICHARD PRYOR: I live in — I wanted to go to a place where there was no people and I found the place. There's 500 people live where I live and they're brown.

While listening to Live on the Sunset Strip -- a 1982 performance in which Richard Pryor discusses his first trip to Africa, his 180-degree turnaround on his formerly cavalier use of the word ...

Richard Pryor’s Essential Albums Released as Box Set The LPs, reissued by Rhino, span 1974 to 1983 and include some of the late comic's most iconic routines. By Seth Abramovitch ...

Pryor's life was a public cycle of sin and redemption. Chemical excess, then rehab. Verbal excess, then a trip to Africa, which prompted him to stop using a racial epithet that he owned in the '70s.

For comedy fans of a certain age, watching VHS copies of the 1982 concert film “Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip” until the tape fell off of the spools was a rite of passage.Until Eddie ...