There's a New Richard Pryor Box Set on the Way
by Bradford Evans 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...
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Forest Whitaker Is Producing the Richard Pryor Biopic and Starting from Scratch
by Bradford Evans 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...
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Showtime to Debut a New Richard Pryor Documentary May 31st
by Bradford Evans 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...
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Looking at Richard Pryor's Career, Demons and All, in 'Omit the Logic'
by Catie Lazarus 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...
View ArticleInside 'SNL's Classic Richard Pryor/Chevy Chase Job Interview Sketch
by Bradford Evans "'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...
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Richard Pryor Biopic Back On with New Director; Eddie Murphy, Marlon Wayans,...
by Bradford Evans 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...
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Is 'Saturday Night Live' Becoming 'Saturday Night Pretaped'?
by Erik Voss 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...
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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...
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Nick 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...
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What'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...
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Mike 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...
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The 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...
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In 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...
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The 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...
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There 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...
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Eddie 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 ArticleThe Richard Pryor Biopic’s 17 Years in Development Hell
Regarded by his peers as the greatest stand-up comedian of all-time, Richard Pryor also lived a fascinating life to match his larger-than-life reputation as a comic. Pryor’s tumultuous personal...
View ArticleSaying Goodbye to Richard Pryor When He Was Still Around to Hear It
It’s no secret that sometimes comedy is taken a bit too seriously. Comedy obsessives love not just the jokes, but the mechanics and emotions of the comedy world. There are a raft of comedy...
View ArticleUsing Comedy to Help Overcome Addiction
Welcome to the latest installment of Tragedy Plus Time. Each segment will focus on a particular ‘life crisis’ — sometimes globally tragic, sometimes more of a personal affair — and we’ll explore how...
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