Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982) on Netflix
R19821h 22mComedyDocumentary
Richard Pryor takes the stage at the Sunset Strip after a 1980 accident that nearly killed him. His filmed set draws on his Peoria childhood and his early club career.
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Richard Pryor performs a stand-up set at the Sunset Strip, filmed for a concert movie. He opens by talking about coming back to performing after the accident, and the set moves through material drawn from his own life: his childhood in Peoria, Illinois, in the brothel his grandmother ran, the Mafia-run nightclubs where he worked early in his career, and his romantic relationships.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982)
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- Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip took $36.3 million and held the record as the highest-grossing concert film of all time until Eddie Murphy Raw overtook it in 1988.
- Richard Pryor's "Mudbone" routine, his elderly storyteller character, was entirely improvised during the filming, and Pryor vowed it would be Mudbone's final public appearance.
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