Murphy, 63, and Pryor starred in 'Harlem Nights' (1989) alongside Arsenio Hall, Della Reese, and Jasmine Guy. Pryor, legal name Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor Sr., died on December 10, 2005 ...

Eddie Murphy revealed that the late Richard Pryor still owes him $100,000 from a bet they made. <p>"He said, ‘You’ll never do it.’ And I bet him $100,000.

Eddie Murphy detailed the $100,000 bet he made with Richard Pryor. (Getty Images) "He bet me $100,000 that I wouldn't put out a music album where there's no jokes or nothing," Murphy said.

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.

Stand-up legend Richard Pryor will always be considered a 1-of-1 talent in the world of comedy. As brilliant as he was blunt, his immortal jokes live on in an archive of comedy albums throughout ...

Murphy recalled approaching Pryor with a copy of his first comedy album and asking him to listen. He described how he could hear Pryor laughing from a few seats away, which filled him with excitement.

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 ...

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 ...

The problem was Pryor became a star after those roles, and when the fire slowed him down, he retreated into toothless, ill-suited, well-paying roles, starring in a series of terrible but popular ...

Rhino’s new box set of the seven comedy albums Richard Pryor made between 1974 and 1983—released by several record companies, but now referred to collectively as The Warner Bros. Albums ...

Host Jimmy Kimmel noted that for Murphy's 1985 album How Could It Be, one of the liner notes reads, "To Richard Pryor, my idol, with whom I have a $100,000 bet. No motherf-----, I didn’t forget." ...