Revisiting Hours: Working-Class Heroes — ‘Blue Collar’
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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’
Posted in: TV NewsCarrey 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
Posted in: Culture ListsFrom 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
Posted in: Movie NewsHarvey 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
Posted in: Culture News'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
Posted in: Culture ListsFrom 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
Posted in: Movie NewsComedian 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
Posted in: Movie News'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
Posted in: Culture NewsThe king deigns to speak — about his new album, his forthcoming movie and his habits in bed and bath
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Pryor’s Inferno
Posted in: Culture NewsAfter an explosion at home sends him to the hospital with serious injuries, the great comic examines his tragic life
