Richard Pryor: Live in Concert

"[T]he single greatest stand-up performance ever captured on film"

- Eddie Murphy

Richard Pryor: Live in Concert is a 1979 "concert" film featuring Richard Pryor.

Quoting the Library of Congress: In history, very few other stand-up stars had ever taken their comedy set to the big screen and presented themselves and their comedic vision so fully, so raw, so unadorned, or unedited. The great Richard Pryor did it four times. This riotous performance, recorded at the Terrace Theatre in Long Beach, California, is vintage Richard Pryor: shocking, thought-provoking, proudly un-PC and, undeniably hilarious. Already, a legend in the world of stand-up comedy, this film — as straightforward in its title as Pryor is in his delivery — cemented Pryor’s status as a comedian’s comedian and one of the most vital voices in the history of American humor.

Richard Pryor: Live in Concert was added to the National Film Registry in 2021.


 * Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The movie is about Richard Pryor, live in concert.