Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

Richard Pryor

No subject is safe from barrier-breaking comedian Richard Pryor -- not even Richard Pryor himself. Proving his main passion is to make us laugh, the unflinching Pryor cracks jokes about his near-fatal...( read more  read more... ) drug-related accident and the fallout in his personal life. The Sunset Strip performance includes plenty of naughty thoughts and hilarious stories, peppered throughout with Pryor's unbridled use of language.

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R, 96 min.

Directed by: Joe Layton

Released: March 12, 1982

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DVD Released: January 11, 2000

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  • June 7, 2009
    started off funny, gradually became mostly funny and then turned into "why am i watching this?"
  • December 29, 2006
    Richard Pryor is a very funny man.
  • December 28, 2007
    Crazy funny!
  • June 28, 2007
    Pryor was a comedy god.
  • March 11, 2008
    Richard Pryor's best stand-up comedy performance, and the best stand-up comedy performance I've ever seen. Pryor's stories, voices, facial expressions and mannerisms are hilarious. Takes some serious issues and makes us laugh at them, and isn't affraid to make himself the butt of... ...( read more )

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