The stand-ups of today are still feeling the shockwaves of Richard Pryor’s impact ... As fearless as it gets. Growing up as he did in a brothel outside Chicago, Pryor spent his formative years ...

“To fully appreciate the power of Richard Pryor as a stand-up comedian,” said David Letterman ... as well as on widely available DVDs and CDs, making him famous all over again. With good reason. For ...

Rhino’s new box set of the seven comedy albums Richard Pryor made between 1974 and 1983 ... on Black and white America disguised as stand-up comedy, finding humor in the nuances, in how ...

In the 2004 DVD box set (which includes all four episodes plus The Richard Pryor Special?), an unaired stand-up set saw Pryor ... (The cold open is included on the DVDs, serving as each episode ...

When discussing the greatest stand-up comedians of all time, Richard Pryor and George Carlin are usually the two names battling it out for first place, and with all due respect to Carlin ...

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 ...