Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

Pop Culture Phenomenon Films: 80’s (1473 movies items)

" Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip is a 1982 American stand-up comedy film directed by Joe Layton. The film stars and produced by Richard Pryor, who also wrote the film with Paul Mooney. The film is released alongside Pryor's album of the same name in 1982, and was the most financially lucrative of the comedian's concert films. The material includes Pryor's frank discussion of his drug addiction and of the night that he caught on fire while freebasing cocaine in 1980. The film grossed "

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Favorite Comedy Films: 1982-1983 (27 movies items)

" Directed by: Joe Layton Produced by: Richard Pryor Written by: Richard Pryor and Paul Rooney Cinematography: Haskell Wexler Edited by: Sheldon Kahn Distributed by: Columbia Pictures "

Moviewatcher122's 2017 Film Diary: Jan & Feb (28 movies items)

"January 9 "I went to penitentiary one time, not me personally, but me and Gene went there for a movie. Arizona State Penitentiary - population: 90-percent Black people. But there are no Black people in Arizona. They have to bus motherfuckers in!" This is pretty embarrassing since I had seen many stand-up specials *ahem* prior to this one, but I've never watched any of Richard Pryor's stand-up. I've seen quite a few movies with him, but never got around to watching any of his specials for som"

PopMatter's Essential Film Performances - 2012 (50 movies items)

"THE CLASSICS YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW Richard Pryor As his international stardom exploded in the wake of his four mega-selling stand-up comedy LPs (That Nigger’s Crazy (1974), Is It Something I Said? (1975), Bicentennial Nigger (1976), and Wanted: Live in Concert (1978)), so did Richard Pryor’s voracious appetites for cocaine and sex. It was, by all accounts, painful to witness. Even as Pryor’s career skyrocketed—he was given his own TV show by the mid-‘70s, and he was becoming a fi"