The 1976 movie The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, starring James Earl Jones, Billy Dee Williams, and Richard Pryor, is loosely based on the barnstorming of the Indianapolis Clowns.
"Funky People" is incredibly similar to "Smells" from Richard Pryor.
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"Farting Smells" includes material that is very similar to the tracks "Fartin’" from Craps (After Hours) and "Farting" from Richard Pryor.
This Night Club was one of the premiere Clubs in the mid-west for R&B artist and minority comedians like Red Fox, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor and Moms Mabley.
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert was the second of Richard Pryor's filmed concert performances, but the first to be released theatrically (Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin' was filmed in 1971, but not released until 1985 on VHS).
It stars Richard Pryor as a blind man and Gene Wilder as a deaf man who work together to thwart a trio of murderous thieves.
The song features references to John Candy, JonBenét Ramsey, where one of the verses said "Got JonBenet Ramsey in my '98 Camry", Richard Pryor, and Steve Stout, while Eminem's line referring to the band as "five more zany-actin' maniacs in action" harks back to his original underground album Infinite.
Richard Nixon | Richard Wagner | Richard Strauss | Richard Branson | Cliff Richard | Richard Gere | Richard Burton | Richard Hammond | Richard | Richard Dawkins | Little Richard | Richard Feynman | Richard Attenborough | Richard M. Daley | Richard I of England | Richard Thompson | Richard Francis Burton | Richard Thompson (musician) | Richard Pryor | Richard Linklater | Richard III of England | Richard Petty | Richard II | Richard II of England | Richard E. Byrd | Maurice Richard Arena | Muhal Richard Abrams | Richard Herring | Richard Wright | Richard Stallman |
Frolick’s work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Movieline, TV Guide, The Huffington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, for which he interviewed such personalities as Milton Berle and Richard Pryor.
Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, The Velvet Underground, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, Kool and the Gang, Peter, Paul & Mary, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, and many others all began their careers at the Wha?
In 1986, his family then moved to Arizona where he spent his formative years being influenced by Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce and Bill Cosby.
Weller describes his music as pop, and sites his influences as Chet Baker, Randy Newman, Paul Simon, Woody Allen, Richard Pryor and De La Soul.
Her Emmy was for Best Writing for the TV special Lily, starring Lily Tomlin and featuring Richard Pryor (1974).
Early comic influences included W. C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, and particularly Richard Pryor: "It was also poignant and heartfelt and I realised then that stand-up could be an art-form".
She often played ditzy busty blonde bimbo roles, as in the 1982 film The Toy with Jackie Gleason and Richard Pryor, in the Married... with Children episode: "A Three Job, No Income Family" (1989) and National Lampoon's Movie Madness.
Wilson's clout allowed him to get both the new breakout performers (such as The Jackson 5, Roberta Flack, Sandy Duncan, Lily Tomlin, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Albert Brooks, Lola Falana and Melba Moore all of whom became very popular during this period) as well as established singers.
The show boasted many famous guest stars including Vincent Price, Ed Asner, Sammy Davis Jr., Andy Griffith, Richard Pryor, Lee Grant, Richard Dreyfuss, Tom Bosley, Danny Thomas, Tyne Daly, Martin Sheen, Louis Gosset, Jr., and Sugar Ray Robinson.
The most prominent artist to have a record released by Tiger Lily was Richard Pryor whose album L.A. Jail was released by Tiger Lily in 1976.
An anti-police-brutality skit from his Revolting Theatre appeared in the 1971 Richard Pryor underground film Dynamite Chicken.
Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales: The Movie for Homosexuals is a 1968 film directed by then-film student Penelope Spheeris (later the director of The Decline of Western Civilization and its two sequels), starring famed comedian Richard Pryor.
The film Greased Lightning, starring Richard Pryor as Scott, was loosely based on Scott's biography.