Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip Page #3

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
779 Views


That's what I do.

Most people hang around till the sh*t

get... makes you look ugly and sh*t...

and you be hangin' out with a b*tch

you don't want to be with.

"Yeah. This is my lady."

That gets you into feelings and sh*t.

When you get married... you have to feel.

My wife says,

"Feel. Express your feelings.

Darling, don't lock it up.

Just speak your mind."

When I was just f***in' around.

I didn't have to say sh*t but...

"Can I f***?

Good-bye.

Here's the money for a cab."

But now,

it's different when you're married.

This is about the time

I've been married...

and it's really exciting.

Because I really am trying.

I really am trying.

I'm telling you,

I'm f***in' trying, okay?

But it's hard to wake up and see

the same person all the f***in' time.

I know this works for women too.

I mean, it's the same motherf***er.

All the time.

"Thank you. Baby, but goddamn!

Not today. Goddamn it.

I don't want to f*** you anymore

tor eight months.

Let's make our sexual life interesting.

You go away for a year.

When you come back,

we will f*** like rabbits."

And my wife's always talkin' about

"express yourself."

"Darling. Express

your feelings. Emotions.

Try to talk.

Try to not be so physical.

Learn how to speak.

Try to talk.

Now. Darling, what is the problem?"

"B*tch, I'm gonna kill you."

My wife is white, and the first

two years we went together...

she thought her name was

White Honky B*tch.

She did.

She put up with the sh*t.

I learned, though. After that,

'cause I was death on her.

"White honky b*tch,

and the black man this...

and you don't know sh*t."

But I stayed with the motherf***er.

I kept staying. I grew some.

It can happen. It it happened to me.

It could happen to you.

She's wonderful

about expressing yourself.

I get mad, I can't even talk.

The madder I get,

the quieter I get.

My voice just goes down a notch,

especially...

"Well. All right.

What I'm trying to do here..."

Feelings are a hard f***ing thing

to deal with.

I don't give a f*** who you are.

It's not easy to be bullshittin'.

But when you get them feelings.

Somebody touches that sh*t inside you...

that sh*t be f***in' with you.

And women, I don't give a f***.

You all can be so cool...

about turnin' a motherf***er oft.

You love when a motherf***er

be in love with you...

'cause you can be some nasty b*tches.

"Darling. Please don't leave me.

Just give me..."

"Oh. God. Are you calling again?

God, Richard, please.

Just don't do this to yourself.

I mean, why don't you go home and bathe

or something like that.

Just don't call here anymore.

Just a minute. John."

How can women be so cool, though.

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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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