A newly resurfaced video featured Eddie Murphy reminiscing about his first encounter with the Richard Pryor. During a March 2021 virtual segment on 'The Late Late Show with James Corden,' Murphy ...

Richard Pryor died in 2005 at the age of 65 from a heart attack related to multiple sclerosis. The unexpected thing, given his life and habits and health, was not that he died so young but that he ...

Enjoy one of our favorites from the Paste Vault, originally published 7/19/2017. The stand-ups of today are still feeling the shockwaves of Richard Pryor’s impact on the artform.

Comedian Richard Pryor (1940 - 2005) performing on stage at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago, Illinois, July 28, 1978. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images) ...

Pam Grier and Richard Pryor counting money in a scene from 1977’s “Greased Lightning.” Getty Images “When I left, I indicated to him that I would never talk to him again,” she said.

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 ...

Pam Grier, a muse of Quentin Tarantino, is detailing her time in Hollywood with the podcast "Here Comes Pam." The actress once dated Richard Pryor, who died in 2005 at age 65.

The biography "Becoming Richard Pryor" (HarperCollins, 608 pp., $27.99) by Scott Saul, an English professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is a pop-culture masterpiece of exhaustive ...