Dir. Jeff Margolis (1979) Perhaps the most electrifying stand-up performance ever recorded, this 1979 doc captures the comedian at his most uninhibited—raunchy, rage-filled, restless.

Stand-up legend Richard Pryor will always be considered a 1-of-1 talent in the world of comedy. As brilliant as he was blunt, his immortal jokes live on in an archive of comedy albums throughout his ...

Groundbreaking comic Richard Pryor, who was hailed for his genius but was plagued by personal demons of drugs and alcohol, — and had suffered from multiple sclerosis for 20 years — died Saturday at ...

When he broke into TV in the mid-1960s, on shows like Merv Griffin and Ed Sullivan, RICHARD PRYOR–who died last week of a heart attack at age 65–was a cute, rubber-faced young comic with a knack for ...