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  2. Richard Pryor - Wikipedia

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    Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor Sr. (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Known for reaching a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most important stand-up comedians of all time.

  3. Live at the Comedy Store, 1973 - Wikipedia

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    The material on Live At The Comedy Store, like his early-1970s albums Richard Pryor and Craps (After Hours), captures Pryor during his most transformative period as a comic, when he evolved from a family-friendly comic in the mode of Bill Cosby into the challenging, politically aware comedian of his most famous albums. [1]

  4. List of Saturday Night Live incidents - Wikipedia

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    Richard Pryor's 1975 episode was reportedly run on a tape delay. On December 13, 1975, the show's seventh episode hosted by comedian Richard Pryor, SNL was ordered by NBC network officials to run the episode on a five-second tape delay. [1] The show's previous six episodes had all aired live on the East Coast. [2]

  5. Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip - Wikipedia

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    Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip is the seventeenth album by American comedian Richard Pryor. Produced by Pryor and Biff Dawes, the album was released alongside the comedian's film of the same name in 1982. The material includes Pryor's frank discussion of his drug addiction and of the night that he caught on fire while freebasing ...

  6. Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (film) - Wikipedia

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    Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip has received mixed reviews.Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 40% based on reviews from five critics. [4]Writing in Commentary, conservative reviewer Richard Grenier saw Pryor's performance as embodying, and as forcing White audiences to accept and respect, an urban type that was more authentic than that exemplified by other Black comedians:

  7. Richard Pryor's widow explains why his comedy still matters ...

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    Jennifer Lee Pryor — who was married to Pryor from 1981 to 1982, and remarried him in 2001 — was closely involved in curating Time Life's box set, and remembers being struck by how his vintage ...

  8. Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling - Wikipedia

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    Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling is a 1986 American biographical [3] comedy-drama film directed, produced by and starring Richard Pryor, who also wrote the screenplay with Paul Mooney and Rocco Urbisci.

  9. Mike Epps says he was using cocaine when filming movies ... - AOL

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    The Indianapolis comedian and actor discussed his past drug use, the state of comedy and why he hasn't starred in a Richard Pryor biopic. Mike Epps says he was using cocaine when filming movies ...