Friday, December 7, 2007

The Richard Pryor Show: The Richard Pryor Roast (1977)

You'll have to double click on this clip to go to the site to download the full forty-five minutes, but if you have a decent computer, it shouldn't take longer than ten minutes and it is totally worth it. This was the final episode of NBC's short lived The Richard Pryor Show, however, this piece of tape is raw footage. There is no opening theme or closing credits, and had you viewed the episode when it aired on television, at least twenty-two minutes of what you'll see here was missing - particularly Pryor's final turn at the end, which was laced with expletives and other colorful talk. Tim Reid of WKRP, Marsha Warfield of Night Court, Paul Mooney, Robin Williams and Sandra Bernhardt are all on the dais.

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