--Bar sketch with Pryor as an alcoholic (and John Belushi as the bartender). --2nd part of bar sketch: Pryor's character arrives at home. Maya Angelou plays his wife.

The first episode ends with a 20-minute sketch set at a Harlem jazz club in the mid-'40s, with Pryor playing a G.I. who comes home to ask his girl to marry him.

Hallease and Evelyn look at how comedy has changed throughout modern history. From minstrels to vaudeville to Instagram, comedy has come a long way. Richard Pryor is arguably your favorite ...

In Sunday's episode, "Memento Mori," Johnson is trying to decide which shoe company he wants to sign with. He's at a club with his team when Epps, as Pryor, appears to steal the show. You may like ...

In 1977 NBC aired "The Richard Pryor Show," the last episode of which was a roast of Pryor. It’s amazing.

Case in point: check out this exclusive deleted scene from 1977's The Richard Pryor Show — which only lasted four episodes on NBC — where the comedian wakes up in bed and shares sweet pillow ...

There's a famous story about The Richard Pryor Show -- as Richard Pryor's star was rising in Hollywood in the 1970s, NBC commissioned the man to make a 10-episode sketch program to be broadcast in ...

Did you know that Richard Pryor had a television show in 1977, and that NBC canceled it after four episodes? I didn't, but I was only one year old. Says Wikipedia: Television audiences didn't ...

He also had his own short-lived series, “The Richard Pryor Show,” which was axed after only four episodes in 1977, the victim of head office scrutiny and low ratings -- he was pitted against ...

He also had his own short-lived series, “The Richard Pryor Show,” which was axed after only four episodes in 1977, the victim of head office scrutiny and low ratings — he was pitted against ...