Way back in 1977 NBC aired a Richard Pryor-led variety show called ... The final episode, a roast of Pryor hosted by Paul Mooney, featured the show’s cast — which included Robin Williams ...

Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye ... Others remembered a 1977 roast where Pryor talked about it, but people laughed because they thought he was joking. he said it himself in his early “stand ...

On the heels of the bombshell Quincy Jones interview that has the entire internet losing its collective mind, Richard Pryor’s widow has come forward to confirm that at least some of what Jones ...

13, 1977, The Richard Pryor Show aired its first episode ... However, if a fourth-episode roast of Pryor was intended to evoke Dean Martin once again, the expansive resulting segment is anything ...

In the actual fourth and final episode of The Richard Pryor Show that NBC did televise on Oct. 4, 1977, Pryor is skewered in a vicious celebrity roast. Only parts of the roast could be televised ...

"How does capitalism lead to racism? Let Richard Pryor explain in 1977. As true today as it was then," one user wrote. How does capitalism lead to racism? Let Richard Pryor explain in 1977.

He appeared on the first season of "Saturday Night Live" and was behind the short-lived 1977 TV variety show called "The Richard Pryor Show," which aired on NBC. His groundbreaking brand of comedy ...

and "Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip." Throughout his career, Pryor focused on racial inequality, joking as the host of the Academy Awards in 1977 that Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier ...

“Quincy started pouring the tea,” Jennifer Pryor ... at the Hollywood Bowl in 1977, he turned against the audience and called them “faggots.” “Richard, obviously, was conflicted ...

I need nothing from you,’ ” she continued. Pam Grier and Richard Pryor counting money in a scene from 1977’s “Greased Lightning.” Getty Images “When I left, I indicated to him that I ...

The stand-ups of today are still feeling the shockwaves of Richard Pryor’s impact on the artform. The late comedian, writer and actor was, like his contemporaries Lily Tomlin and George Carlin ...