The Great American Comedy Festival is back in Norfolk, with a big headliner on deck this year to celebrate the late Johnny ...

Welcome to Event Horizon, your weekly roundup of the best events in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and beyond. Several years ago, ...

Actor and talk show host Gary Collins, right, reacts to a joke told on the set of “Hour Magazine” in Los Angeles during a break in taping Wednesday, July 30, 1981 with guest Burt Reynolds. Reynolds ...

among several other awards show telecasts. He also directed Richard Pryor’s famed 1979 Live in Concert comedy film and variety specials for Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor ...

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 ...

After appearing on The Richard Pryor Show, she gained national fame as Roz Russell, the no-nonsense bailiff on Night Court. Warfield’s dry wit and commanding presence made her a household name ...

He would one day be Richard Pryor’s tour manager ... The end came on a hot night in Baltimore when Hoover told Pryor to bring an extra outfit to the show. Hoover knew Pryor would sweat on ...

Next, Coon decided to go with the Richard Pryor drama “Jo Jo Dancer ... Shouting out another show she’s a part of, Coon brought up period drama “The Gilded Age” and how the upcoming ...

The show's creator, Lorne Michaels ... Plenty of other comedic legends have passed through the halls of Studio 8H, like Richard Pryor. Pryor hosted "SNL" just once, but left his mark forever.

Yet here’s an anniversary fewer will mark and no one will celebrate: Soon, we will have been without Richard ... The talk show host, knowing the film was an autobiography, asked Pryor what ...

Many famous comedians like Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor and Moms Mabley sharpened their ... Among the best Chappelle show sketches was the Frontline parody featuring a blind black man leading a ...