For 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 ...

He was an anthropologist performing an autopsy on Black and white America ... Bicentennial N*gger, Wanted/Richard Pryor Live in Concert (double-LP), Live On The Sunset Strip, and Here and Now ...

The New Yorker will reach 100. Yet here’s an anniversary fewer will mark and no one will celebrate: Soon, we will have been without Richard Pryor for two decades. He died in 2005, and as the New ...

A recent clip featuring Eddie Murphy recounting his first encounter with the legendary comedian Richard Pryor has sparked debate among fans. While Murphy’s story is filled with nostalgia and ...

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 ...