There’s an aura of transgressive truth-telling around this type of comedy star, best exemplified by the likes of Richard Pryor ... remember you on ‘The Tonight Show,’ 2016.

Today, comedian and actor Chevy Chase has a wildly uneven reputation. Some love him from his old National Lampoon movies or the 1980 classic Caddyshack (not the sequel). Others jump on the hate ...

He performed stand-up for over a decade in England — in the British style of working toward an hourlong, narrative Edinburgh show every ... telling puts him in Richard Pryor territory.

Grammy Award-winning funk legends Kool & the Gang become the newest announced show headed to Roanoke ... Ritchie Havens and Richard Pryor. Their self- titled 1969 debut album introduced their ...

Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels fought hard with NBC executives to book the provocative Richard Pryor ... show “used a bad word 28 times.” She ended the monologue by announcing the musical ...

The Times notes that Richard Pryor was also attached ... I don’t know anything about it,” Murphy told Conan O’Brien on the Tonight Show in 2009. “Whoever is really playing the Riddler is sitting home ...

The post Richard Pryor’s Warner Albums to Be Reissued as 7xLP Box Set appeared first on Consequence. Six of Richard Pryor’s comedy albums from 1974 to 1983 have been compiled into a 7xLP box ...

Backstage: A woman (Shirley Hemphill), on an NBC tour, suggests Pryor have "...and the Pips" on his show. --Sketch: "...and the Pips" - The Pips appear without Gladys Knight. They sing the ...

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 ...

Richard Pryor’s legendary run is chronicled in the new box set I Hope I’m Funny: The Warner Albums (1974-1983), out now via Rhino. Scott Saul, an English professor at the University of ...

As luck would have it, Leno had his big career break on The Tonight Show 15 years before he started hosting it. He performed standup comedy on a 1977 Tonight Show episode and soon became a staple ...