For comedy fans of a certain age, watching VHS copies of the 1982 concert film "Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip" ...

Filmed at the Hollywood Palladium in 1981, this is Pryor at the peak of his powers. Wearing a shocking orange suit, he regales an adoring audience with tales of his drug addiction, a trip to ...

That's why he returned three times to the medium of the concert film. It was one thing to listen to a Richard Pryor on a turntable ... He eventually had it, live on stage at the Alladin in ...

Richard Pryor's stand-up act includes his frank discussion about his freebasing addiction, as well as the infamous night on June 9, 1980 that he caught on fire.

He’d had a heart attack, which he later characterized in his 1979 stand-up classic, “Live in Concert,” as a stroll ... is that I very badly want Richard Pryor to live.” ...