Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip Page #4

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


When you angry?

"Don't you tell me! I love you!

Don't you see?"

"Yes, dear. I'm going for a walk."

"A walk?

I wanna tight!"

One night. I left the house

about 137 times.

I did. I just said,

"F*** you!"

And then I'd have to come back.

Like. You forget your keys.

You ever leave and forget your keys?

"B*tch! Yeah. Motherf***er!

Yeah. Uh-huh!

Believe that sh*t!

Yeah. You'll see.

Oh, sh*t."

Then you got to go

back in the house.

Why come your old lady looks so good

after you've been away tor a while?

You ever. Like. Get your heart broke?

Men here.

You ever had your heart broke?

Women get their heart broke, they cry.

Men don't do that sh*t. Men hold

that sh*t in like it don't hurt...

walkin' around

and get hit by trucks.

"Didn't he see that truck?"

"Motherf***er.

He wouldn't have seen a 747...

'cause his heart was broken."

There's a feelin'... Gettin'

your motherfuckin' heart broke...

it's like, I don't know.

Men cannot graduate till

a woman breaks your f***in' heart.

That is your diploma.

It either kill you or make you fat.

I'm talkin' about that heartache

where your motherfuckin' heart be...

hurtin' and sh*t, and you be...

You can't even listen to music.

Sh*t remind you. Like

"Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer."

"That reminds me of my lady. God.

She got a nose just like Rudolph."

And you go out with other women

when you're in love...

You go out with other women.

It don't mean sh*t. Right?

You go out with other women.

And you hear their voices and go...

"What is this b*tch talkin' about?

Why don't she just shut the f*** up?

She ain't sayin' sh*t."

'Cause it's hard to reestablish

yourself with other people...

once you've been with a partner

tor a long time. Right?

Especially if you get a good woman

that you really be in love with.

Usually. It's the man that fucks up.

We f*** up. Right?

Then we can't find

them motherfuckers no more.

And when you can't find her no more,

it look like she get better.

Every time you see her.

She be beautiful...

or with some other motherf***er

that looked good.

I be going,

"I wanna kill everybody.

Everybody in the world."

That's how you end up

in the penitentiary, jack.

A lot of people in the penitentiary

killed their old ladies and sh*t...

and boyfriends and sh*t like that.

Just flip out.

"I don't give a f***.

At least I don't have

to look at them anymore."

I went to a penitentiary

with Gene Wilder...

I went to a penitentiary

with Gene Wilder...

I did a movie. Not me personally.

I went to do a film in a penitentiary.

I was up there six weeks.

Arizona State Penitentiary.

It was some...

Oh. You're applauding for that?

Arizona State Penitentiary

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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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