Burn It Down and Start Again: 4 Comics Who Threw Out Their Material and...
by Ian Goldstein Throwing out material is a frightening prospect for any entertainer. For some performers it can take years to compile a half-hour show. Especially in comedy, recycled material can...
View ArticleNick Cannon Hints He's Playing Richard Pryor in the Upcoming Biopic
by Bradford Evans Nick Cannon was a guest on TMZ Live yesterday, and he implied that he's been cast as Richard Pryor in the upcoming biopic about the late, great comedian. Cannon this week posted a...
View ArticleWhat's So Special About 'The Richard Pryor Special'?
by Abby Denton There's a famous story about The Richard Pryor Show — as Richard Pryor's star was rising in Hollywood in the 1970s, NBC commissioned the man to make a 10-episode sketch program to be...
View ArticleMike Epps Officially Lands the Lead Role in the Richard Pryor Biopic
by Megh Wright After being stuck in development for ages, the Richard Pryor biopic has finally found its Pryor. Despite Nick Cannon hinting that he got the part last month, according to an update by...
View ArticleThe 20 Greatest Standup Specials of All Time
by John Wenzel Modern standup has been around in one form or another since vaudeville, but it’s only been since the late ‘70s that the standup special has gained traction as the crowning achievement...
View ArticleIn a Rare Early Performance, Richard Pryor Sings and George Carlin Gets in...
by Ramsey Ess The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than...
View ArticleMike Epps Talks About Playing Richard Pryor on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'
by Megh Wright News broke back in August that Mike Epps officially landed the role of Richard Pryor in the upcoming Lee Daniels-directed biopic, and during last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live, Epps looked...
View ArticleThe 16 Best Comedy Books of 2014
by Brian Boone To add to your diet of comedy consumption which is likely already at critical mass, what with the comedy movies, sitcoms, sketch comedy shows, web videos, Twitter feed, and novelty...
View ArticleThere Is No Such Thing as a Smart Fart Joke
by Eddie Brawley It’s kind of good and fun, or at least strangely comforting, to have this positivist attitude about comedy and comedy writing, that if you just apply the magical alchemy you can turn...
View ArticleEddie Murphy in Talks to Play Richard Pryor's Father in Lee Daniels' Biopic
by Megh Wright The upcoming Richard Pryor biopic by Lee Daniels just added another big name to its cast. Entertainment Tonight reports that Eddie Murphy is in talks to play Pryor's father LeRoy "Buck...
View ArticleThere’s a New Richard Pryor Box Set on the Way
Shout Factory is releasing a new Richard Pryor boxset that features new material (and plenty of old material), The AV Club reports. The set, titled No Pryor Restraint: Life in Concert drops June 11th...
View ArticleForest Whitaker Is Producing the Richard Pryor Biopic and Starting from Scratch
Forest Whitaker has signed on as a producer, taking over development of the biopic of influential stand-up Richard Pryor, Deadline reports. A movie about Pryor’s life has been in development since...
View ArticleShowtime to Debut a New Richard Pryor Documentary May 31st
There’s a new documentary about Richard Pryor coming to TV next month. Deadline reports that Showtime will be debuting Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic on Friday, May 31st, a month after the movie...
View ArticleLooking at Richard Pryor’s Career, Demons and All, in ‘Omit the Logic’
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic, directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Marina Zenovich, premieres tomorrow night at 9pm on Showtime. Considering its sold out premiere at Tribeca Festival prompted one...
View ArticleInside ‘SNL’s Classic Richard Pryor/Chevy Chase Job Interview Sketch
“‘You’ve all been asking me to put Chevy [Chase] and Richard [Pryor] together,’ I say. After all the bullshit I’ve been put through to get here, the fucking cross-examination Lorne [Michaels] subjects...
View ArticleRichard Pryor Biopic Back On with New Director; Eddie Murphy, Marlon Wayans,...
A biopic about the late great standup Richard Pryor has been in the works for nearly two decades now, and while the project has been dormant for the past few years, it looks like a Pryor biopic is once...
View ArticleIs ‘Saturday Night Live’ Becoming ‘Saturday Night Pretaped’?
Last year, in his third time hosting SNL, Zach Galifianakis gave us a wonderful sketch called “Darrell’s House.” The sketch came in two parts. The first part was an odd piece that aired live early in...
View ArticleTracy Morgan Is in Talks to Play Redd Foxx in Lee Daniels’s Richard Pryor Biopic
SNL alum Tracy Morgan just might be the latest cast addition to Lee Daniels’s in-the-works Richard Pryor biopic. According to The Wrap, Morgan is currently in talks to play Redd Foxx in the film,...
View ArticleHow Cinematic Can Standup Comedy Be?
As Kevin Hart: What Now was projected onto the screen in front me, I realized what a strange experience it was to be in a small movie theater in a small audience watching a much larger audience in a...
View Article10 Comedians Who Borrowed Jokes Without Making Headlines
Stan Laurel once said, “All comedians steal from all comedians.” If you waste enough time looking into it, you might be surprised to learn that it’s practically become a tradition over the years:...
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