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

Relaxed in all his glory

Richard Pryor was one of the three greatest stand-up comedians of all time (along with George Carlin and Lenny Bruce), and there are three films that collectively show why: Richard Pryor: Live in Concert, Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip, and this comedy-concert film. In Here and Now, Pryor finds one of his best audiences in New Orleans - one patron even gives him a pet crab mid-show - and stumbles upon one of his most relaxed performances sans-"king of comedy" garb. His elderly character Mudbone shows up to discuss rude children, Mexicans, and earthquakes, along with a junkie character later who speaks of jail, invincibility, and tells us, "I did it myself" before depriving us of his company. There are no scenes in a comedy concert, so my favorite bit is the gut-clenching finale about erections, vibrators, herpes, and public toilets. Pryor was a master.