What’s So Special About ‘The Richard Pryor Special’?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 […] ...

What’s So Special About ‘The Richard Pryor Special’?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 […] ...

American comedian Richard Pryor (1940 – 2005) during a stage show, circa 1977. (Photo by Fotos International/Getty Images) We caught up with Jennifer to discuss the pioneering writer-actor-comedian ...

Richard Pryor’s now-legendary 1975 hosting stint on the brand new Saturday Night Live offered up plenty of evidence as to why NBC would never give the brilliant and volatile stand-up comedian a sketch ...

The LPs, reissued by Rhino, span 1974 to 1983 and include some of the late comic's most iconic routines. By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer “This is a perfect time for Richard Pryor,” says Jennifer Lee ...