Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Hall, 70, writes in "Arsenio: A Memoir" (Simon & Schuster, March 31), mentor Pryor, who died in 2005, ruled the comedy mecca's ...

You cannot talk about culture in the 1990s without talking about Arsenio Hall. His late-night TV show premiered nationwide in January 1989. No desk. No side kick. No ...