Richard Pryor
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Paul Mooney, Comedian and Richard Pryor Collaborator, Dead at 79
Revered comedy icon also wrote for and appeared on Chappelle's Show
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Revisiting Hours: Working-Class Heroes — ‘Blue Collar’
This week's streaming column: Alex Pappademas on Paul Schrader's 1978 profane, pulpy, prescient-as-hell comedy about the wage-slave blues
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See Jim Carrey Talk Smoking Weed With Richard Pryor on ‘Kimmel’
Carrey serves as executive producer on new Showtime series 'I'm Dying Up Here' about comedy scene in 1970s Los Angeles
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50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time
From old-school nightclub veterans to alt-comedy legends, Patton Oswalt to Pryor, our picks for the greatest to ever grab a mic
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Lee Daniels Rejoins Jay Z-Produced Richard Pryor Film
Harvey Weinstein offers no details about director's return to Mike Epps-starring biopic he left in May
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Classic Richard Pryor LPs Released Digitally for First Time
'Wanted: Live in Concert' among six of the comedian's Warner Bros. recordings now available for purchase and streaming
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Divine Comedy: 25 Best Stand-Up Specials and Movies
From classic HBO specials to arena-comic concert flicks, these bits continue to crack us up
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Eddie Murphy to Portray Richard Pryor’s Father in Biopic
Comedian will play his longtime idol's abusive boxer father in the Lee Daniels' film, which also casts Kate Hudson as one of Pryor's wives
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Richard Pryor Doc Explores the Late Comic’s Psychological Bruises
'They wanted him to be the next black voice,' widow says of 'Omit the Logic,' 'and he didn't want the job'
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Eddie Murphy: Call Him Money
The king deigns to speak — about his new album, his forthcoming movie and his habits in bed and bath
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