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Richard Pryor Here and Now
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This high-voltage concert film shot in New Orleans, features the sensational Richard Pryor in his prime. Doing some of his most innovative material, Pryor takes charge on stage with an electrifying style and an unequaled comedic genius, in an incredibly funny performance guaranteed to rock you withside-splitting laughter!
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Did you ever have a good concert spoiled by yahoos in the audience? In Richard Pryor: Here and Now, the last and least of Pryor's three concert films, Pryor's consummate comic genius is put to the supreme test by audience members who shout out, heckle, and otherwise break the spell during even the more potent, personal pieces, such as the near 15-minute character sketch about a junkie from Pryor's old neighborhood. Filmed in New Orleans, Here and Now is not as primally funny as Live in Concert and Live on the Sunset Strip. At this point, Pryor is seven months sober. At different points in the concert he reflects on his substance abuse. A routine about acquaintances from those days reminding him about his outrageous behavior is a more graphic variation on Shelley Berman's classic routine about "the morning after the night before." But he keenly confronts and challenges racial attitudes when speaking about white panic when drugs reach beyond black neighborhoods into their own homes. "Epidemic," he observes, "is when white folks are doing it.... Maybe the next time you see black people in trouble, you'll help." (Prophetic pre-Katrina words!) Even with less-than-inspired material, Pryor is mesmerizing to watch, whether evoking frigid Illinois winds or getting inside the head of a crab that an audience member presents to him during the show. --Donald Liebenson
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 Ounces
- Item model number : 2226434
- Director : Richard Pryor
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Closed-captioned, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 35 minutes
- Release date : January 29, 2002
- Actors : Richard Pryor
- Subtitles: : English, French
- Producers : Bob Parkinson, Jeff Scheftel, Andy Friendly
- Language : Unqualified
- Studio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B00005U8EO
- Writers : Richard Pryor
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #63,638 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #7,895 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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ANY and everything.
I tried telling my father and my uncles, but they rejected the premise, out of their own white ignorance, guilt and shame. mrf
but here, one of the problems was that it was just too short. i understand it couldn't go on forever (obviously) but it just seemed like he didn't have as much going into it as some of his other stuff. that could be because of the Other problem going on in this performance... the audience needed to just shut up, sit down and let the man do his thing. it was like they hadn't been bothered about the fact they paid money to see the man. they were just going to talk over him, generally walk around and pay him really no heed. like hey, why pay good money if you just wanted to get drunk and be a pain in the ***? you do that with the bad acts. you do Not do that with the Good Ones like a professional like Richard Pryor. you sit down and show the man some respect!
but the act was still strong in that it was still very much Him. he gave us a piece of his Being in the act.
and be warned... there's a bit about a junky named Motif in there that's agonising to watch. because it's Obvious Mr. Pryor was showing us the intimate details of what He had done to himself before cleaning up. it Will be jarring to anybody thinking about more than just jokes and the laughs. Especially with the audience seeming to not quite catching on to just how Real the bit was. i Almost stopped watching there because it just made the hair on the back of neck stand up.
so be aware that, yes, there's some of the usual guffaws and chuckles, there's also a piece of the Man in there as well. and he wasn't shy about showing us just how lost he had been.
as i said... a lot like the late great Robin Williams.
i know they knew each other in life and it comforts me to think that they're together riffing with each other now. maybe they finally found peace.
that would be nice.