Remembering Richard Pryor
22 Oct
Comedian Richard Pryor was a part of my growing up. And it wasn’t just because he was popular during my teen years, with movies like Silver Streak, Stir Crazy and Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars, or for his stand-up routine albums like Richard Pryor: Live on Sunset Strip and Is It Something I Said?.
I owe a lot of my love of comedy to my Dad, who in another life would have been a stand-up comic himself. My father, with the Jewfro he sported back then, held court at the dinner table with my Mother, my two sisters, and me. There he’d […]
