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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381016529
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 23, 2004
Running Time: 60 minutes
Sales Rank: 12503
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: September 13, 1977
Editorial Review:
Description:
One of the most talked-about comedy shows ever, this hilarious collection of classic laughs became a legend during its showings on NBC and now returns on DVD for a new generation! Guests include John Belushi and Maya Angelou, Cast Members include Robin Williams (Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society), Sandra Bernhard (Without You I'm Nothing), Shirley Hemphill (What's Happening!!), Paul Mooney (Hollywood Shuffle), LaWanda Page (Sanford and Son), Tim Reid (WKRP in Cincinnati), Edie McClurg (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) and Marsha Warfield (Night Court) and Peter Cullen (The Tigger Movie).
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - One star out of four for the early episodes, TEN for the last one.
There's no mystery as to why The Richard Pryor Show only lasted four episodes. True, Pryor only originally contracted to do ten shows, and then renegotiated down to four once he realized that the NBC censors weren't going to let him do much of the material he wanted to do. But even though he had limited the run of the show himself, there is no doubt that the series wouldn't have lasted much more than four even if it had been intended to run a full season. Plainly put--the first two episodes sucked ... Read More
Rating:  - SERIOUS COMEDY
This is Richard Pryor. Serious comedy. For all of you who feel this is not up to standards you're used to. You must be too young or you forgot what the 70's were like. This is real 'push the envelope' comedy. Sometimes you laugh and you realize, there is a real sad message behind what you've just witness. And sometimes it's just downright bellyaching funny. The problem was, television was not ready for Richard Pryor. The few places television allowed him to take us, he had to fight, scratch and kick ... Read More
Rating: - Revisiting the Richard Pryor Show
Thought that Richard was ahead of his time when he did this show on TV. It was funny then and it is still funny.
Was surprise to see a few comdedians that are well known today that were on the show; Robin Williams, Tim Reid, Witherspoon, Marsha Whitfield...
Rating: - Richard Pryor's DVD Set Makes Him the Black Andy Kaufman
Yes, that's right,if Andy Kaufman were a black American, he'd be Richard Pryor. Just like Andy, this DVD set made me happy,sad,angry,confused, and even scared from bewilderment! I laughed at "Star Wars Bar," as well as, his "White Head in a Cage" skit. I cried when I saw the sincere heartwarming love shown in pieces like "Satin Doll" and even more so in the endearing "the Day the Circus Came to the Ghetto" skit. I got angry at his various skits where he uses racial slurs, like the "n" word,etc. But oddly, ... Read More
Rating: - Where's Belushi?
Good stuff, but not as good as the SNL appearance mentioned in another review.
One mystery: There is a photo on one of the DVD cases (also appears in the Pryor CD box set book) of Pryor and John Belushi doing a sketch where they are onstage with guitar, harmonica and upright bass. This sketch is not on the DVDs...where is it?
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