Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip Page #2

Synopsis: One of comedian Richard Pryor's live performances (at the Sunset Strip, obviously) caught on film. Pryor talks about most of his standard subjects, including rascism and the differences between blacks and whites, along with talking about some of his recent film roles.
Director(s): Joe Layton
Production: Sony Pictures Entertainment
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
R
Year:
1982
82 min
782 Views


"But it's three in the morning."

"F*** that. I want to see it now."

And I got lawyers and sh*t. Lawyers

are some expensive motherfuckers.

And I got lawyers and sh*t. Lawyers

are some expensive motherfuckers.

I got a lawyer.

First week. The motherf***er...

brought me a bill for $40,000.

I said,

"Motherf***er. I just met you!"

And lawyers,

they don't get upset. Right?

"Goddamn it! Why is this..."

"Don't worry.

Everything will be all right."

"No, but I wanna know why you..."

"Take it easy."

And you leave there

feelin' like an a**hole.

You be goin',

"What the f*** am I yellin' about?

They calm.

I'm just facing 47 years."

Them motherfuckers will keep you

out of the penitentiary...

and out of a lot of courts.

But it's gonna cost a lot!

Some people must say.

"F*** it. I'll go to the penitentiary.

You motherfuckers cost too much.

I can do ten years in the penitentiary

and get off better...

than these 30

you're gonna put on me."

I met some lawyers, right?

I had a guy I'm suing.

A black attorney who was my brother.

Right on.

He was. It was beautiful.

My brother.

The motherf***er took me

hook, line and sinker...

on dry land.

I don't know.

I just know that this is wonderful.

Especially this suit...

that I have on.

I thought if I have a monkey,

me and this suit will be hot.

'Cause I can't wear

this kind of sh*t real comfortable.

You have to be cool. Billy Dee Williams

could hang in this motherf***er.

Me, when I wear sh*t like this.

I'm always afraid...

that one motherf***er somewhere

will say...

"What you doin' in that red suit.

You ugly motherf***er?"

I don't f*** around anymore,

since I got married.

I am married.

I don't f*** around.

That's right.

When you are married...

say you don't f*** around

it you got any brains.

My wife:
"What? Did you f***..."

"No, I was not f***ing her.

I don't care what you think you saw.

I was not f***ing her.

Now. Are you gonna believe me

or your lying eyes?

I was not f***ing her."

And my wife... My wife

has been putting up with me...

We went together six years

before the b*tch landed me.

She paid dues...

'cause I am no day at the beach.

I know I'm hard to get along with.

I know that...

'cause I might wake up

in the morning and go...

"Hey. Wake up.

What was that sh*t

you said last February?"

This is my forth, fifth, sixth marriage.

Eighth? I don't know.

But I remember every woman

that I was ever in love with.

I remember all 12 of them.

I really do.

They were wonderful.

It's just...

I've never been able to have a...

what they call sustain a relationship.

That's what it's called now.

In other words. When you stop wantin'

to be with the motherf***er, you leave.

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Richard Pryor

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and social critic. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed vulgarities and profanity, as well as racial epithets. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential stand-up comedians of all time. Pryor's body of work includes the concert movies and recordings: Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin' (1971), That Nigger's Crazy (1974), ...Is It Something I Said? (1975), Bicentennial Nigger (1976), Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979), Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982), and Richard Pryor: Here and Now (1983). As an actor, he starred mainly in comedies such as Silver Streak (1976), but occasionally in dramas, such as Paul Schrader's Blue Collar (1978), or action films, such as Superman III (1983). He collaborated on many projects with actor Gene Wilder. Another frequent collaborator was actor/comedian/writer Paul Mooney. Pryor won an Emmy Award (1973) and five Grammy Awards (1974, 1975, 1976, 1981, and 1982). In 1974, he also won two American Academy of Humor awards and the Writers Guild of America Award. The first-ever Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor was presented to him in 1998. He was listed at number one on Comedy Central's list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked him first on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time. more…

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