Remembering Richard Pryor
December 21, 2011 • Feeling My Age • Comments
When Richard Pryor Live In Concert was first released on VHS in 1979 me and my mates bought a cassette of the soundtrack and listened to it so many times we could recite pretty much the whole thing by heart. To this day I haven’t heard or seen anything to touch it.
This clip can only give a flavour of Richard Pryor‘s unique comic genius. To appreciate it fully you need to witness the longform performance to get the cumulative effect as he draws you into his world.
Luckily you can now buy a remastered DVD of the whole 78 minute show on Amazon for a paltry £2.99. It’s a crying shame – and an incredible bargain: I’ve just bought a new copy so we can chuckle at it all over again.
