Live on the Sunset Strip [VHS]

The Best Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor will remain the most ontroversial,no holds barred comedic genius of all time!!!! Its been years since I've enjoyed Richard..it's brought back alot of memories. I highly recommend this to his true fans.

Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip
This is an older, more thoughtful Richard Pryor, but still America's funniest man. His trip to Africa changed his outlook forever.

The Godfather segment gave me a stomach spasm.....
He tells a joke about Tessio asking Tom Hagen for a pass (from the movie, The Godfather) and Tom nodding no. Now, i don't want to break the joke to you if not heard, but trust me its unbelievably hilarious, now each time when i see the Godfather, especially during that scene between Tessio and Tom, whilst everyone has a sombre expression on their faces in the room, i am the only laughing my head off thinking about Richard's joke. I would have to agree with an earlier reviewer that its not as funny as Live in Concert, but make no mistake, the momentum is definitely there. He handles his freebasing incident in a very humorous but in a redeemed manner. The consistency of jokes in this performance is extremely good and unlike Here and Now (in which the audience members are rude and boorish), this is a nice crowd and a very receptive audience, (known faces include a very young Jesse Jackson in the audience). He does Mudbone and his jokes about his trip to Africa and the epiphany he has there and his decision never to use the N word again, truly shows how much he has evolved as a performer and as a human being. He truly shows you his real self when he performs and that for me rates Richard Pryor as an honest comedian, with a big heart.

Old but good
Love this one. Must've bought it half-a-dozen times. Everybody wants one and they take it from me.

That negro's hilarious!
Peoria,Illinois-born Richard Pryor delivers another hilarious comedy routine filled with profanity of course. Unbelievably,one of the audience members was Rev. Jesse Jackson. Does Pryor mention the N-word? Of course,he does. Pryor,who followed in the footsteps back in the 1960's of another comedian three years his senior,Bill Cosby,influenced another trashmouthed comedian years later,Eddie Murphy. Both Pryor and Murphy influenced other trashmouthed black comedians such as Chris Rock and Dave Chapelle. Cosby himself,has always detested the use of profanity. Instead of the so-called profane words rhyming with "luck" and "spit",Cosby would instead say "filth,foul,filth". It may have happened to Pryor,Rock and Chapelle,but Cosby did once chastise Murphy on the phone for Murphy's obscene humor. I believe Cosby believes that profanity use is totally unnecessary. That's why Cosby's humor,as opposed to those of the others,is suitable for young children. In this concert,Pryor displays sexually-oriented humor as usual with the commonly spoken slang. I dedicate this item to the memory of Pryor(12/1/40-12/10/05).