Richard Pryor ...Here and Now (1983)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Richard Pryor

Writer:

Richard Pryor (writer)

Release Date:

28 October 1983 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Documentary

Plot:

Part live stand-up performance, part documentary, this film is one of comedian Richard Pryor's later stand-up performances. As foul-mouthed as ever, Pryor touches on most of the same topics as in his previous live shows. |

Plot Keywords:

Drinking | Poverty | Heroin Addict | Heroin | Punctuation In Title

Cast

Richard Pryor

...

Himself

Runtime:

83 min | 95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

UK:18 | USA:R

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Richard Pryor's joke about the bartender telling him "We have no more fucking liquor!" was originally told on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" (1962) minus the F-word.

Movie Connections:

Featured in TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004) (V)

Soundtrack:

Just be Good to Me

Funny and surreal

"Here and now" is easily funnier than "Live on Sunset Strip", when it wants to. But also quite surreal. What makes it surreal is mainly the audience. In the middle of the show a middle-aged geezer hands Richard a crab in the water glass. Far out. Also, the heckling is quadrupled in this show. It was probably Mardi Gras time. But Man Pryor still made me choke from laughter, and the improv with the aforementioned crab was quick thinking too. Towards the end, it's Pryor's turn to crank up the surreal with his junkie-bit, which is also quite moving, if too much of a downer for a supposedly comedy show.

This show is something else.