One of Pryor's sketches with cast member Chevy Chase was featured as part of "SNL 50," which aired Sunday on NBC. Background: Comedy legend Richard Pryor forever linked to Peoria ...

The problem was Pryor became a star after those roles, and when the fire slowed him down, he retreated into toothless, ill-suited, well-paying roles, starring in a series of terrible but popular ...

Nearly a decade after Indianapolis native Mike Epps received Richard Pryor's blessing to portray the iconic comedian onscreen, a high-profile biopic is in the works. Epps, Oprah Winfrey and ...

Enjoy one of our favorites from the Paste Vault, originally published 7/19/2017. The stand-ups of today are still feeling the shockwaves of Richard Pryor’s impact on the artform.

And that’s when he admitted it: “I have sucked a d*ck,” which was met with a roar of applause from the crowd. What’s more, Pryor didn’t try to play it off as a mistake, or something he ...

no laughing matter That time Richard Pryor admitted to hooking up with men & called out the hypocrisy of the LGBTQ+ community By Cameron Scheetz June 28, 2024 at 1:00pm Photo Credit: Getty Images ...

“To Richard Pryor, my idol, with whom I have a $100,000 bet. No motherf***er, I didn’t forget.” Naturally, Kimmel asked Murphy about the bet and got the lowdown.

He became Richard Pryor… the one we know, not the slapstick guy, who was already a success. If you see him on Merv Griffin and those shows, he is doing things like Rumpelstiltskin and he’s ...

Richard Pryor (1968), ‘Craps’ (After Hours) (1971), and the vinyl debut of Live At The Comedy Store, 1973, along with the bonus material, shows the artist’s evolution into a revolutionary force.

But it wasn’t often an R-rated comedian got his own kid’s show. That changed with Richard Pryor and his short-lived series Pryor’s Place, which ran in 1984 for one season.

The legendary stand-up’s five-minute bit is a master class in vulnerability, physicality, and reckoning with death. Analyzing Richard Pryor’s ‘Heart Attacks’ from his 1979 special ‘Live ...