Richard Pryor: High, Live, and Dirty On Mormon Television
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- RICHARD PRYOR ALL COKED-UP AND OUT OF CONTROL.
In 1980, while filming "Stir Crazy" on location in Arizona, Richard Pryor agreed to sit for an interview with a Mormon high school public access cable television show. The interview took place at 7am, before shooting began for the day. After completing the entire one hour long interview, it was discovered that one of the high school student crew members messed up the audio portion of the recording, leaving the complete program in total silence.
After lots of begging, Pryor agreed to re-do the interview provided it took place after his lunch break, which came about 3pm. By the time Richard was eventually available to again sit for the interview, he was pretty wasted from his usual boozing and coking it up on the set. Needless to say, his demeanor was quite different from his G-rated portrayal given while still sober, earlier that morning.
What you are about to see was deemed completely inappropriate for children and young adult viewing purposes, and was banned from being aired on the Mormon high school's station ... until now.
This is the first and only time it will be made available for public viewing. Enjoy!!
So many people in the comments section that have no clue about the comedic greatness of Mr. Richard Pryor.
You’re saying he’s not funny, but he’s not trying to be funny...he’s being real and spitting truth in a comical way.
He’s intentionally being disruptive here not because he’s trying to placate you or put on an act. He’s doing it because he thinks it’s hilarious and because he can.
Richard’s genius was always in his ability to tell America about itself to its face and smile and laugh while he was doing it.
Most of the real Richard Pryor fans know that. Too bad so many in the comments section are so ignorant to this fact.
It's called being real for short.
He was being dead serious. He was fucked up and talking shit, like you said, because he can. He knew his money gave him the clout to say what he wanted and no one was going to tell him to shut up.
Blame it on the juice!
Thanks for gracing us with your expertise on Richard. What we have done without all your exclusive vast knowledge that you just shared. SMFH
@Writer Mind Now that’s a mouthful of FACTS!!! 💯💪🏾
Never let them call you crazy...it's dismissive - Dave Chappell.... R.I.P Richard Pryor
Sensitive America couldn’t take his presence now days
Facts, I'm actually a little jealous how chill the environment was while watching this. It would've been fun to live in those days.
Its not evan live dumbass he said the camera isnt working ,plus for god sake the man is coked out.
@@tyeshamack6082 😂ok
Sensitive America couldn't take his presence then 😂
Naw to many sensitive girl's
That 80's cocaine was very high quality. lol
It really was
@@hotsauce8671 Ohh, you are correct sir!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Do sho fammm!¡!!
Some people ain't on that level..
Lucky ppl
Richard a real one he said don’t knock Steve Martin down to build me up.
REAL STUFF!!
This dude was amazing!! This is what happens when you rush interveiw....& he gave it to em RAW uncut Lol!!
He WAASZ A REAL DUDE....Richard never pulled NO punches!
Even drunk and high, he didn't wanna ruffle feathers ... Until later in the interview that is lol
It dnt matter how high an rich u are racism is always among us
He brought up his grandmother and cried instantly respect
Yep he was dead as hell
I love what Mike Epps said about Richard: Don't feel sorry for how he died, because it would take a LIFETIME to make up just one of his weekends.
e3erockstar08 Amen🙏
When you high but saying real shit and don't even know it
Richard new what he was saying.
@@James67851*knew
He may been high but he was telling the TRUTH... wisdom
Exactly. Richard's words: "I'm wonderful. The real people will realize this when you show it at 12:30 in the morning." And here we are, 40 years later, and his genius is still felt. I miss Richard.
“I look up to the Bank of America” 😂😂😂😂
facts
"I don’t care about air. Air is free. Y’all talking about time, and space. You gotta pay for that.”- Richard Pryor
Well, the way things are going, air won't be free for long!
He was clearly upset inside. The industry life was getting to him. He said, " I gotta steal money from myself." He said that because entertainers don't have access to all of their money. They have to get permission from their accountant (that's given to them) to make purchases and withdraw money over a certain amount. He was probably pissed off inside about a lot of things.
also the sexual shit in the industry , i guess he had to be high to get by.
Pryor giving it up for Steve Martin .. That`s a real G move
Don’t knock Steve Martin to try n build me up! What a boss.
Boss def
Salute, & they say we’re selfish..
The older I get. I mean everything he says makes more sense
Riiiiight!
Right
This may be the realest thing I’ve ever seen. He said y’all don’t give a fvckabout me. I’m speaking for my grandmother who you didn’t let speak. She was a better woman than you are a man. ✊🏾 Y’all tried merica but you can’t break us. 🔥
Thank you all for your wonderful comments. It truly makes me feel good that so many of you have really enjoyed this rare posting of one of the 20th centuries finest comedians/philosophers.
I find this video sad. Richard is upset in this video. He is high as fuck but he is pissed off. And because he is high he is uninhibited and speaks freely about the number one issue that plays on his mind. Race.
+roddaz I also find the video very sad. Hearing the laughter in the background is depressing. Those must be all the enablers & hangerons who made sure Richard had his blow and enjoyed watching Richard embarrass himself in front of a high school teacher. Race was dominating his mind and so was being wealthy. Just sad to watch a great comedian slipping.
+Javy C i find it sad due to some of the hard truths he spoke about that were laughed off as jokes. you can see he was certainly troubled by the box he was confined to by society
Edward-The man was in serious pain and even though he is considered a genius, Pryor could have been even more popular and even more legendary. But the drugs ruined him and what we see here is a junkie that is out of control.
Javy C :/ when you feel you're not wanted, those same feelings become reflected outward. I wonder what his youth was like
Drugs wasn't the issue he kept it 100
His comedic genius is on display. While High” he could be obnoxious and joke around the (TRUTH)... This was actually brilliant. I really don’t care if he was high or not because he still got his truth out without being controlled by the interviewer (media) .
You just posted a dead accurate comment on topics that are murdering race relations in the US. Props @ poeticsounds
The pain behind every joke is powerful.
Yep really he was hurting
Richard Pryor, one of the realest OGs of the industry. Eddie Murphy imitated, but never duplicated.
Redd Foxx is the original O.G. ov comedy, he birth Richard & Richard birth Eddie, Harlem Nights movie self-explanatory.
Eddie murphy was not duplicating richard, eddie is the 🐐
@@srjpropertiesllc7186 Eddie was light years ahead of Pryor, Richard was saying shit in this interview from comedy shows he'd done years before. The Charlie Chaplin joke was done 2 years before, Eddie was real talent not just drug addled ranting.
I had thought that Richard was a Comedic Genius until I saw this, He was actually playing out to be an ignorant and racist man at heart, without the lights, make-up and live audience. Can you imagine if it was a White Comedian gloating on the fact to believe in having the luxury and money to "Fuck Everybody" on the claim that his greatest prize and reward is in fucking Black or Women of Color in front of a Black Interviewer or Audience? His Head wouid be served on a Platter!
You don’t have to put Eddie a down to build Richard up
Rich was high and they wasnt ready for that raw shit he was saying...and when he said how that black dude with the gun thought he was important but if their was a robbery the police will come in and still kill him ...that shit is so tru cuz its going on now he was ahead of time with what he saying
Not ahead of his time. Cause much hasnt changed. Amerikkka has been racist since it was overtaken.
he wasnt ahead of his time...times just havent changed in regards to how police treat black/brown people
It’s impossible to teach this type of comedy because he was pure. Either you’re born with it or not.
Pain
What were the Mormons thinking Pryor would give a clean interview to church goers!?
Read the description
Was high but still dropping gems!
" don't knock Steve Martin tryna build me up." No one was realer than Richard!
That was definitely him unfiltered. I've heard him say in another interview that he held back in stage and couldn't say what he really wanted to say... After seeing this, I see why he held back... The average person wouldn't be able to handle it... R.i.p. to a true legend.
Legend? HES 💩
He is high AF
Drugs, I don't know about. But I do know truth when I hear it ✊✊✊
I remember i got in trouble when i was about 3 or 4 & my mom sent me 2 my room........not long after that The Richard Pryor show came on & my mom let me come out of my room & 👀it......rip mom & Richard Pryor.☺💃❤🙏⚘💜⚘🙏⚘🧡⚘🙏⚘💛⚘🙏💚⚘☺
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LOL " I bought seven pounds of cocaine in front of eight policeman". I believe him.
I believe him too. He might be high but he speaking the truth. Everything he said that’s public knowledge was true.
He was just living freely. Pryor gave the message to you raw and didn't give a dam about it! 🌅💯
Exactly.
I can't believe he pulled it off but horray, & on tape👏!
"Nobody cares what I think."
Heard almost 40 years later.
Wild observation... so true
Bit seriously it isn't very funny. Mostly race based insults.
this is a pivotal period for him. 1979 so his grandmother just passed and it's inches.away from burning himself. I think a year or two later. read many books that Said he can be your greatest and worst friend in one day due to the drugs.
There's a lot of pain behind the laugher.
Very much so and very racist too, no matter how much a marry white woman. He hated blacks too.
Watch Richard Pryor's roast listen to what he says he sold his soul to the devil
It isn't that big a deal. He liked to get high, may have been here and he isn't hurting anybody. From my pov it's fucking hilarious. He's taking a what should a serious affair and getting them to chill to his level so they know where he is at. All the critique of him comes by people not being able to say gee he's doing some thing few black people did back then and handling it his way ...that isn't up to the viewers to judge
He was lit & woke at the same time. Every thing he said was facts. Feel like he was speaking in 2017. I was a kid when he died so seeing him high doesn’t bother me as much as someone who probably saw him in his prime
Sharod Boogette hes funnier high
He wasn't high in live on the sunset strip and that is like his magnum opus
This was his prime he wrote blazing saddles with Mel brooks but to high to play the main character
"Fuck censorship and his momma"
- Richard Pryor (RIP)
This is the pure definition of NOT GIVING A F#CK!!! RAW AND COMPLETELY UNFILTERED.
Helena Cromartie lol
This interview with Richard Pryor is the most fact filled interview ever ever period hands down. Wish today's news and schools would get on the same page!!!!!!!
He May just be tired of Hollywood at that point in his life.
Pryor was literally born and raised in a brothel. This poor soul was scarred from day one.
thats pretty patronizing dont you think
@@warshipsatin8764 I see what ya did there...
AMAN
Buddy said don’t tear down another man to build me up, he’s a real one for that
I love what a genius he was.. defending Steve Martin.. another man that was born standing up. 1:30 .. RIP richard .. love him.
I don't give a fuck what anyone says, this shit is goddamned hilarious
The best collaboration was Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Red Foxx, in Harlem Nights. 2 comedic legends with Eddie who was the newer comedic talent.
It was definitely cool to see all three of those guys on screen but Harlem Nights wasn’t too great IMO. I thought the first 30minutes had some funny scenes but the last hour was pretty eh. I first saw it in the theater when I was 15.
"Fuck Charlie Chaplin. The mothafucka didn't even talk!" That is still comedy gold.
🤣🤣🤣
The fact that the interviewer kept trying to get any usable material for this long is amazing
Wow. What a great video share Lizzy. The context of a Mormon high school teacher trying to interview RP is amazing in itself, even before Richard does what he does best, being Richard. I can't believe this video survived. Many lessons in here from RP and one that I took is - don't give an "F" what other people think - be real. I know it but can always use reminding.
Richard Pryor is in fact the greatest comedian that ever lived he paved the way for all comedians A-1 💕💯🎯
facts....
A couple of months after completing the movie.He was so drugged up on a cocaine binge that he lid himself on fire .He suffered 2nd,3rd degree burns in which took him 6 weeks to recover.
He's wearing the same shirt and pants in this interview that he wears in the "We bad" jail cell scene in the movie.
"Don't knock Steve Martin to try and build me up!" Pryor is the greatest.
what that phrase means? I am not American so dont get it
@@gordonshumway6825 it means don’t criticize Steve Martin as a way of complimenting me (Richard Pryor).
The white guy came over because he didn t like him talking honestly. He only spoke how he felt truthfully whether under the influence or not. I loved it.
LMAO, that's Jimmy Meadaris, the horse wrangler on Stir Crazy you fool.
The interviewer doesn’t know he recorded gold, sometimes you just need to turn the camera on and let them talk💀💀💀💀
💯
Glad they uploaded this bit of history. Feel like I know this great man a little better.
Thanks!
Richard Pryor uncut and unfiltered
“Gene Wilder attracts some pretty white women and pretty white boys
I’m glad this on RUclips. I first saw it on the archive shelf while working at CBS in Vegas way back in 1998. For years I’ve been trying to explain how crazy it was but I could never do it justice. 😂😂
You must’ve seen some fun shit is there anything you saw back then you still think about but could never find
@@goatpepperherbaltea7895 what I remember the most was if you saw the movie “Casino” there were shots of mobsters walking in and out of court or being hounded by news reporters. Well this archive had the actually footage they reenacted in the film and it was almost exact. The craziest thing by far was years ago the MGM hotel caught on fire (not the current location) and people were jumping out of windows from several stories up. They obviously didn’t show that on TV back then but it was recorded and 👀🤯😳. It was wild
this is all kinds of intoxicated confessionals......the stories he's got , no one would want to touch any of this l love how this is still jolting even today 2021
I bet Richard was fun to party with.
He patting on his chest looking for his squares lol classic granddaddy shit
Yeah I do that a lot , including my wallet and cell phone.
😂😂😂😂😂 I thought that’s what he was doing. He just put one out and wanted another right quick!
When snow white was really snow white 😂 not that dirt 🤣
BY the way this was Richard and Wilders best movie! Pure comedy gold that never gets old.
I liked the toy. and he had other really good black only movies
CLASSIC!!! BEST UNSCRIPTED MATERIAL I'VE EVER SEEEEEEEN :-)
I love the guy thinking he is actually ever going to get some kind of “serious” answer. An eternal optimist. Of course Rich was serious about all his answers, the interviewer just could not see it. So funny.
richard was 40 in this interview, a young girl is probably a 21 year old to him, pryor wasnt a damn pedo
@@austinpaquin3221 you were there? You know everything about Richard? Fuck off man youre part of the reason hollywood is dying, yes i know hollywood is fucked up but you think everyone is a weinstein or spielberg lol
@@austinpaquin3221 and how could make the decision not to throw some shit on someones life?? Cause i wasnt there. I dont know them. Richard WAS 40 at the time, basically almost half way done with his life, everygirl who was 21-28 IS young to him lol
@@bigbrilonestar11 😂😂 my dude richard died in pussy
Lol everybody hating on the goat, he was severely abused as a kid sexually and physically. He used to go talk to young kids and help them. fuck all these shit talking weirdos. Long Live Richard
Lol you know damn well what “young girl” means
I love how he says not to mock Steve Martin just to build him up.
"fuck Charlie Chaplin. The motherfucker didn't even talk" lmao funniest shit ever.
😭😭😭
Yeah, he said everything he said here in many other interviews. Just regurgitating old crap, CC made more in 10 years than RP did over his whole career and that was back in 20s and 30s money.
I felt so sorry for the poor guy trying to interview him. He could not even get a sentence out.
He got a lot miss😂 we still watching this interview
@@peralilbitofghezzolin9311 very true! lol
A Living Legend, Gone But Not Forgotten ... Best comedian ever... No one can compare to this dude👍👍👍R.I.P Richard Pryor The Greatest
Richard Pryor was a brilliant man...period!
“Don’t knock Steve Martin and try to build me up.” 👏🏽👏🏽
He said don’t knock Steve Martin to try and lift me up. Steve is great
He sound like Eddie Murphy or should i say Eddie sounds like him
Yes, Eddie sounds like him.
Man, I feel like Richard Pryor could have almost single handedly ended racism. In this day and age, I feel like we forget that it's good to be able to laugh at ourselves.
Man he was woke and it was tearing him up inside his comedy was releasing his pain
Truth
I had thought that Richard was a Comedic Genius until I saw this, He was actually playing out to be an ignorant and racist man at heart, without the lights, make-up and live audience. Can you imagine if it was a White Comedian gloating on the fact to believe in having the luxury and money to "Fuck Everybody" on the claim that his greatest prize and reward is in fucking Black or Women of Color in front of a Black Interviewer or Audience? His Head wouid be served on a Platter!
It’s cool how Richard respected Steve Martin. Brilliant people respect other brilliant people.
My Thoughts Exactly!
Respect for him when they tried to compare Steve Martin and he gave him his props high or not had a sense of reality.
Anyone else watching this in '18?
Berleezy's Vanilla Yogurt Raisins couple weeks early bro nice try
Nobody yet bitch
Berleezy's Vanilla Yogurt Raisins if you are watching in 18... You're higher than he is.
Time Travel😳
I am
Let me be intelligent like Malcom X😂😂😂
He wasn't higher.. He was rich and did not give a fuck
Jack McNamara you never done cocaine have you?
The fact That Mr. Pryor agreed to redo this ....Leaves us right now with a HUGE Gift! The improv off the cuff feel is outstanding and vintage.
He was high but he was definitely truthful and himself. He was upset about something. It was his treatment in the south that set him off.
YES 👍so much truth that they didn't air this prerecording.
They are meant to be promoting a new movie but he got so high on lunch break and had a glass too much
And his grandmother literally just passed which is why he brought her up twice and that was a mom to him
^ this is the takeaway here. The generational suffering
Sweet Upload, bro!
HEY😀🤚🏻
100percent
No one, I mean NO ONE comes close to Rich Pryor when it comes to comedy.
Red Foxx and Dave.
red, Eddie, George
Why is everybody sooo butt hurt on the comment section of this interview.? This is maybe the best interview ever. Get that stick out your ass and appreciate this. I know the interviewer did.
Thank you for the upload!!!
"Fuck censorship AND it's Mama!" -Richard Pryor
People that always discredit others, are often the most flawed! High or not , Richard was great at turning his pain into laughter!!!👌👌👌👌👌
He was a genius. To me, he brought the pain of real life to the front, and the comedy to me was genius, but crude at times. Ha Ha! Those years when these movies were made, some great comedy was brought to the Theater. I miss those days and I always will. Today's comedy seems a struggle to make and I don't know why. I'll be Seventy in 3 months so maybe it's harder for me to watch them in a positive way.
This interview is funnier than most comedians stand up set. RIP THE OG RICHY RAW PRYOR
100
Richard was a real one, as real as they get!
This was hysterical and thank God they filmed it. RIP Richard
Pryor is the G.O.A.T of comedy 😭 bruh this dude... I can't even 💀💀💀
I had thought that Richard was a Comedic Genius until I saw this, He was actually playing out to be an ignorant and racist man at heart, without the lights, make-up and live audience. Can you imagine if it was a White Comedian gloating on the fact to believe in having the luxury and money to "Fuck Everybody" on the claim that his greatest prize and reward is in fucking Black or Women of Color in front of a Black Interviewer or Audience? His Head wouid be served on a Platter!
Air is free Ya'll are talking about time.What a genius but angry as hell.
People so busy laughing they don't know he was snitching so they sent the tall old white man too end the interview
Who was that guy? I totally agree,he definitely was sent to try to either end the interview or try to save it.
@@briyonce7317 One of the people who really runs things in the USA.
@@oldworldorder9424 Illuminati
Richard Pryor, realized the profession he chosen; he could never be truly genuine, or taken seriously, and it frustrated him. R.I.P, Richard. 🙏🏾
"That man is an artist. Don't knock Steve Martin to try and build me up."
He said "that was this morning, this is this afternoon". He had a lot of time in the trailer. He high as fuck!
His handler!
The people saying wasted talent. If he didn't ever get fucked up and act like himself he would of never been rich. People living under a rock. It's sad.
Richard Pryor is (quoting Eddie Murphy) "The rawest motherfucker in show-business"! Dude is awesome!