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Summary: Knock dead hysterical!
Review: Pryor's brillance as a story teller, urban humorist, and master of colloquial speech was never more obvious than in this, the first, and by far the best of his three "live" concert films. Pryor's observations on death, sex, marriage, and racial difference is presented as rthymically as a Albert Ailey ballet, punctuated with obscentity laced speech that seems as natural to the performance as a pair of toe slippers on a ballerina. Filmgoers can watch Pryor mesermize his live concert audience as he slips nimbly between multiple characterizations like a quick change artist, playing everything from a heart attack victim negotiating with God to a Great Dane contemplating a sexual encounter with a Shetland Pony. Camera close-ups capture Pryor's ability to transform his face and body from cheetah chasing a gazelle to a child asked to go outside and bring in a switch; from white woman weeping at a white funeral to a black woman wailing at a black funeral - all the contortions, dialects, and expressions without benefit or need of special effects. Pryor's raw, natural humor is captured to perfection, live and spontaneous as it happened - but preseved, thankfully, in this film. In a day when cable was in its infancy, not fully testing it's wide-open, uncensored content of today, most audiences had no opportunity to see Pryor on stage, unbridled and unrestrained. At the time of the filming, theater owners had no experience with comedy-concert films, yet alone one starring an unpredictable maverick who had been compared to a black Lenny Bruce with an attitude. After the concert was filmed, the producers could find no theater chain interested in taking a chance on this first-ever comedy performance movie and were forced to resort to "four-walling" the film in a single Los Angeles themselves. The long lines and sold out crowds changed the minds of theater chain owners and the film eventually opened nationwide to universally rave reviews and greatful audiences. The film's continuous contageous humor is only matched by the film's historical importance.
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Summary: The Difinitive Richard Pryor
Review: Richard Pryor is a comic mastermind. His imitations of people, white and black, are dead on. His imaginative impersonations of animals talking and attacking people are beyond hilarious. And you'll probally think "WOW! Since this preformance is so good, the dvd will be fantastic!" WRONG! The DVD is poorly mastered, obviously from videotape, not digital, because of exsessive "ghosting", espicaly around Pryor's hair and objects moving around them. I cant blame them, though, because I've looked at every copy (VHS, DVD, Laserdisc, and even TV versions) and they all look exactly the same. Maybe proper mastering from THX will make it look pristne, and until that day comes, and it may never, buy the dvd for the best possible transfer.
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Summary: Funniest thing I've ever seen...i couldn't breathe....
Review: Richard Pryor is the king of comedy, now and forever...broke all the rules...set the scale for Murphy, Rock, Williams, everybody.....amazing, so original...timeless...funniest sh*t i have ever seen....
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Summary: Richard Pryor - Live In Concert
Review: Richard Pryor's comic genius is ever apparent in this DVD. His scenarios and timing are just guaranteed to create tears from laughter. However, the quality of the DVD was extremely poor. There is shadowing around Pryor and the audio track is way off!
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Summary: The best of stand up comedians, legendary
Review: Richard was one of the best comedians of his time. He bring reality to the forfront in an hularious manner so that some or most people can relate to the jokes as if the same thing happened to them. He broke down barriers of racial diversity through jokes and laughter.
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Summary: BUYER BEWARE
Review: Sure, Richard Pryor is one funny mofo, but there are technical problems with this DVD, the least of which is THE VIDEO IS NOT PROPERLY SYNCHRONIZED WITH THE AUDIO! It is as if he performed in Japanese and it was subsequently dubbed into English.I think I can blame the posterization on the poor quality of the original videotape, but be aware that the video looks awful at times and is home-movie quality at best, but with skillful editing.
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Summary: Pryor is great, DVD sucks
Review: This DVD is a travesty. This is one of the great stand up comic shows of the last 50 years and yet the DVD sound track is off by so much that it is distracting. Stay away. Perhaps the VHS tape is better.
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Summary: I Couldn't Stop Laughing!
Review: This is by far Richard Pryor's best taped concert. I saw it with my college roommate for the first time. He had already seen it, and he was laughing at me because I was laughing so hard that it literally brought tears to my eyes! Then I bought the tape a few years later and watched it with my wife. She was laughing so hard that she missed most of the dialogue the first time around. She had to watch it again to catch what she had missed. It's Richard Pryor at his rudest, crudest best-talking about his squirrel monkeys, run-ins with the police, heart attacks, drug use, sex, hunting and being an amateur boxer. If you want to laugh your ... off, get this tape! It's hilarious!
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Summary: Sheer Brilliance!
Review: This is it! Pyror in his prime! I have put on this tape every night for three weeks straight now and still laugh all the way through.Its all here;the heart attack,the squirrel monkeys,stayin in shape,the stuttering chinese waiter and on and on. Not a weak moment on it. What sets this concert apart from the rest(Carlin,Murphy,Rock,to name a few)is because it has SUBSTANCE.Very smart comedy. ("Macho man!I'll take that knife and shove it up your...)
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Summary: The best stand up I have seen !!
Review: This is my absolute favorite of the Richard Pryor series !! The man is simply a comic genius !! Too many funny skits to list......just buy it !! You won't be sorry!!
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