Live on the Sunset Strip

Live on the Sunset Strip


Starring:Richard Pryor, Jesse Jackson, Gene Cross, Julie Hampton
Director: Joe Layton
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Taken together, Richard Pryor's concert films, the essential Live in Concert, the virtuoso Live on the Sunset Strip, and even the lesser Here and Now, provide a more incisive autobiographical portrait of the groundbreaking comedian than the fictionalized Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling. In Sunset Strip, Pryor relates two life-changing experiences. The first is his trip to "the motherland," Africa. As funny as is the routine in which Pryor gives voice to a couple of cheetahs poised to prey on unsuspecting gazelles, he brings the audience up short with a moving revelation that leads him to forswear ever again calling another black person the "N-word." The second, of course, is his near-fatal freebasing accident, which Pryor at first jokingly passes off as an accident involving milk and cookies. Then, he takes the audience step by harrowing step through his growing cocaine addiction (abetted by his untrustworthy pipe which speaks to him in reassuring tones), alienation from friends, including the formidable Jim Brown ("Whatcha gonna do?"), the explosion that resulted in third-degree burns over the upper half of his body, and finally, the agonizing rehab. It is even more unflinching and savagely funny than his Live in Concert routine about his heart attack. Other memorable bits include his experiences as a 19-year-old stand-up comedian working at a Mafia-owned club, a monologue from one of his signature characters, Mudbone, and his visit to a penitentiary while filming Stir Crazy. Sunset Strip captures Pryor's triumphant return to the stage. He is a survivor, unbowed, winning this round over the demons that plagued him throughout his career. --Donald Liebenson
Live on the Sunset Strip
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Awsome, the king
  • Peerless Pryor Proves Perfect
  • You Will Laugh Until it HURTS!
  • Larry The Cable Guy funnier than Richard Pryor? Never.
  • A Classic in Live Comedy
 Live on the Sunset Strip
Starring: Richard Pryor , Jesse Jackson , Gene Cross , and Julie Hampton
Director: Joe Layton
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000031EGO
Release Date: 2000-01-11

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Taken together, Richard Pryor's concert films, the essential Live in Concert, the virtuoso Live on the Sunset Strip, and even the lesser Here and Now, provide a more incisive autobiographical portrait of the groundbreaking comedian than the fictionalized Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling. In Sunset Strip, Pryor relates two life-changing experiences. The first is his trip to "the motherland," Africa. As funny as is the routine in which Pryor gives voice to a couple of cheetahs poised to prey on unsuspecting gazelles, he brings the audience up short with a moving revelation that leads him to forswear ever again calling another black person the "N-word." The second, of course, is his near-fatal freebasing accident, which Pryor at first jokingly passes off as an accident involving milk and cookies. Then, he takes the audience step by harrowing step through his growing cocaine addiction (abetted by his untrustworthy pipe which speaks to him in reassuring tones), alienation from friends, including the formidable Jim Brown ("Whatcha gonna do?"), the explosion that resulted in third-degree burns over the upper half of his body, and finally, the agonizing rehab. It is even more unflinching and savagely funny than his Live in Concert routine about his heart attack. Other memorable bits include his experiences as a 19-year-old stand-up comedian working at a Mafia-owned club, a monologue from one of his signature characters, Mudbone, and his visit to a penitentiary while filming Stir Crazy. Sunset Strip captures Pryor's triumphant return to the stage. He is a survivor, unbowed, winning this round over the demons that plagued him throughout his career. --Donald Liebenson

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Awsome, the king.......2007-05-07

What can you say about a legend of comedy. an awsome DVD, extremely funny.

5 out of 5 stars Peerless Pryor Proves Perfect.......2007-04-18

Richard Pryor was beyond funny and this show proves it. The quickness of his mind, the incomparable quality of his voice and his ability to mimic, his timing, his honesty...funny is just the beginning of appreciating Richard Pryor. Here is a guy famous for dropping N-bombs throughout his career, publicly declaring to never use the word again. And this was in 1982...25 years ago! Think of the latest news involving Don Imus, of Michael Richards' onstage comedy rant using the N-word...Pryor was a quarter-century ahead of all the gangsta rappers in moving past negative racial epithets. He seems to have no defenses whatsoever about himself or his behavior in this filmed concert. His imitation of a Mafia clubowner is about as good as comedy gets. Pryor to my mind set the bar so high maybe only Eddie Murphy can attempt the heights of comedy Pryor reached in his lifetime.

5 out of 5 stars You Will Laugh Until it HURTS!.......2006-11-23

I first saw this in a campus film festival. This has got to be one of the FUNNIEST routines I have ever watched! I laughed so hard I thought I'd break my ribs from laughing. Richard Pryor was a gifted comedian and a hell of a story teller! His Africa routine and the one about the wino was just too funny for words. I was actually gasping for breath between laughs on this one.

Although Pryor used rude language, that still does not take anything away from the sheer humor of his stories and wickedly funny brand of story telling. He even jokes about his own then precarious health as well as the dissolution of his marriage and how his perspectives in general changed when he went to Africa. He could take the most serious topics and convert them into sheer hilarity. To this day I can't watch him for 5 minutes without keeling over laughing.

Don't drink anything before you watch this movie. If you fear you might spontaneously urinate while laughing, then you might want to wait a few hours after you've had any liquids.

5 out of 5 stars Larry The Cable Guy funnier than Richard Pryor? Never........2006-09-20

I must first preface my comments by saying that I think Larry the Cable Guy is funny guy, but he is no Richard Pryor. I am a white anglo-saxon who thinks that Richard Pryor was one of the most funny people who ever lived, and if you asked Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, or Ron White who was the better comedian I think they would all pick Richard Pryor because Rich could find humor in the most unlikeliest sources, whereas Larry is rather obvious in his basis for humor. Good though, but not as profound as Richard Pryor. This along with the other two Richard Pryor stand up films should be the proof of what a comedian is all about. Yes, Rich used rough language, but listen to words between the cuss words, he was a very smart comic who had all the ablities needed to be the legend he was.

5 out of 5 stars A Classic in Live Comedy.......2006-08-30

omgosh, I can't believe some one said the cable guy is funnier than Richard Pryor.. this country is definately going to hell in a handbasket! LOL!!!!!

Quite possibly - the greatest live stand up performances in history. Period. If you don't "get" humor -- then get the cable guy stuff.
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