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Richard Pryor

May 2022

  • Joan Rivers, Richard Pryor, Robin Williams and George Carlin are eulogised in The Hall.

    Toasting not roasting: these comedians would surely mock Netflix’s hall of fame

    Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Joan Rivers and Robin Williams are given their dues in The Hall but the event is oddly sanctimonious

August 2021

  • Teenage Kicks 210820 Michael Smiley

    Teenage kicks
    Michael Smiley’s teenage obsessions: ‘I heard the Beat and came back to Belfast a rude boy’

    The comedian and actor on dancing with his mother to Ray Charles, the power of Seamus Heaney’s poetry and how Richard Pryor showed him his future

August 2018

  • Stand Up Feature - Guide Web Banner 18 August 2018

    From Beyond the Fringe to Nanette: five shows that changed the face of comedy

    With the Edinburgh fringe in full flow, here are the five standup sets that catapulted their creators to fame

July 2018

  • Robin Williams as seen in Come Inside My Mind.

    Come Inside My Mind: star-studded documentary honors Robin Williams

    Director Marina Zenovich talks about translating Williams’ comedy to the screen, his inner demons, and what compels her about complicated men

February 2018

  • 1/19/18 Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize winner, theatre critic for The New Yorker, and author of "White Girls," at Ciccio in downtown Manhattan. Photograph by Ali Smith

    In brief: White Girls; The Last of the Greenwoods; The Old Man and the Sand Eel – reviews

  • Richard Pryor and Marlon Brando in the 1970s

    Richard Pryor and Marlon Brando were lovers, Pryor's widow confirms

October 2016

  • RICHARD PRYOR<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage Mandatory Credit: Photo by c.Columbia/Everett / Rex Features (495538d) ‘Richard Pryor - Live on Sunset Strip’ - 1982 RICHARD PRYOR

    Lee Daniels back on board to direct Richard Pryor biopic produced by Jay Z

    Mike Epps, Oprah Winfrey, Eddie Murphy and Kate Hudson to star in the film, which Daniels initially dropped out of directing due to scheduling conflicts

August 2016

  • GENE WILDER & RICHARD PRYOR STIR CRAZY (1980)<br>FHPJ04 GENE WILDER & RICHARD PRYOR STIR CRAZY (1980)

    Film blog
    Gene Wilder: a comic enigma whose genius shone brightest in collaboration

  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - 1971<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock (2251751a) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) Gene Wilder Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - 1971

    Gene Wilder – five key performances

July 2016

  • The writer Walter Mosley.

    Walter Mosley: 'Donald Trump is a lazy, spoilt guy'

    As his latest detective novel drops, the writer muses on Obama, the Clintons, and how his own father is like his celebrated protagonist, Easy Rawlins

January 2016

  • Santigold

    On my radar
    On my radar: Santigold’s cultural highlights

    The singer and producer on the mesmerising David Oyelowo in Nightingale, soul food in Brooklyn and Dave Chappelle’s sharp comedy

June 2015

  • Maurice Mcleod

    Why the black best friend has had its day

    Maurice Mcleod
    David Oyelowo has said he will not play BBFs – it’s time to consign these jive-talking, fist-bumping, two-dimensional donkeys of roles to history

March 2015

  • Eddie Murphy

    Eddie Murphy set to join Lee Daniels' biopic of Richard Pryor

    Murphy, who once directed Richard Pryor in Harlem Nights, will play the father of standup comedian, who is to be played by Mike Epps

January 2015

  • Pryor's disciples … Chris Rock, Bill Hicks, Doug Stanhope

    Richard Pryor – the patron saint of standup as truth-telling

  • 'Kiss my happy, rich black ass' … Richard Pryor during his performance at the Hollywood Bowl on 18 S

    Richard Pryor: meltdown at the Hollywood Bowl

April 2012

  • Richard Pryor

    Comedy gold: the best standup on DVD
    Comedy gold: Richard Pryor Live in Concert

    Leo Benedictus: Making childhood beatings, heart attacks, abuse and prison sentences funny is an achievement – making them this funny takes genius

October 2009

  • Marlon Wayans and Richard Pryor

    Marlon Wayans poised for Pryor engagement

    Scary Movie actor looks set to replace Eddie Murphy in the planned biopic Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said?

February 2009

  • Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor

    Eddie Murphy set to play Richard Pryor in new biopic

    Murphy said to be willing to waive his usual fee to play his idol in new film from Oscar-winning writer Bill Condon, who co-produced Sunday night's revamped Academy Awards show

January 2008

  • Theatre blog
    Solid as a Rock: Chris is a comedy god

    This fearlessly funny stand-up ranks alongside Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor

December 2005

  • Culture Vulture
    Laughter in the dark

    As the piece we put in today's paper inadvertently demonstrates, Richard Pryor doesn't translate well to print. The excerpt from his infamous 1975 appearance on Saturday Night Live is so full of parentheses - signifying expressions, gestures, actions - that it's almost impossible to read. It's a script as much as a transcript. A script only capable of being performed by one man.

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