Pam Grier clearly remembers when she first learned her ex-boyfriend Richard Pryor nearly ended his life. It was 1980, and the actress was on set filming "Fort Apache, The Bronx." A production ...

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Out of many stars who headlined blaxploitation genre movies in the ‘70s, Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor were just a ... initially goes after the boyfriend until he realizes who the real ...

A newly resurfaced video featured Eddie Murphy reminiscing about his first encounter with the Richard Pryor. During a March 2021 virtual segment on 'The Late Late Show with James Corden,' Murphy ...

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 ...

On April 6, 2007, Paul Mooney reflected on the mechanics of stand-up comedy and his unique role as best friend to comedy’s all-time greatest, Richard Pryor. Interview conducted by director ...

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 ...

Paul Mooney reflects on the mechanics of stand-up and his role as Richard Pryor's best friend. On April 6, 2007, Paul Mooney reflected on the mechanics of stand-up comedy and his unique role as ...

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 ...