Each of these releases earned Pryor a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album, and he took home awards for all but Wanted/Richard Pryor Live in Concert. Notably, Here and Now was recorded when 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 ...

By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer “This is a perfect time for Richard Pryor,” says Jennifer Lee Pryor, the late comedian’s widow. “I’m just very excited and happy that we’re getting th ...

That said, the perfection of what he does in “Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip” was not easily achieved, and Pryor had a lot of help. The movie is less a documentary record of a ...

He continued to read aloud the dedications written on the back of the album, which included messages of thanks to Michael Jackson, Prince, and Pryor. “To Richard Pryor, my idol, with whom I have ...

Eddie Murphy has always been open about the respect he has for late comic Richard Pryor. But Murphy’s admiration for Pryor might’ve grown even more after Pryor defended him against two other ...

He was Richard.” Murphy would eventually convince Pryor to listen to his comedy album right there during the plane ride. “So I had a copy of my album, my first comedy album,” Murphy said.

The spot, Hall explained, holds a special place in his heart, as it was there that he first tried coke at the behest of the late Richard Pryor, who dominated comedy in the ’70s and ’80s.

Listen up and you’ll hear why and how.” Pryor said the cover art for the five-time Grammy Award winner’s first album (“Richard Pryor”) serves as a “huge statement about his work.” ...

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Pam Grier was only romantically involved with comedian Richard Pryor for about a year during the 1970s. However, the “Foxy Brown” star, 73, still remembers the impact their relationship had on ...