Richard Pryor Sings (1960s)

The Mike Douglas Show with guests Richard Pryor and Sly Stone (1974)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest host Steve Martin and guest Richard Pryor (1978)

The Mike Douglas Show with guest Richard Pryor (1967)

Classic Television Showbiz's Night at the Drive-in: The Mack (1973)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Richard Pryor (1980)

The Merv Griffin Show with guest Richard Pryor (1966)

The Midnight Special with guest Richard Pryor (1977)

The Ed Sullivan Show with guest Richard Pryor (1964)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guests Bette Davis and Richard Pryor (1982)

"In the early Sixties, Richie and I would frequently be on the same bill at the Cafe Au Go Go, and sometimes while introducing each other, we'd do a few improvs between sets. There was always a rapport, and perhaps we share certain comic viewpoints, but I think Pryor is without peer. The thing he does better than anyone else is represent who he is, where he's been, and who has been around him. He doesn't do whole characters in the sense that Lily and Jonathan do, but Richard does fantastic characterizations - an entire personality implied by just a line here, a gesture there. And his white guys really kill me. Richard is just a genius. He makes me laugh from the soles of my feet - that's S-O-L-E-S." - George Carlin, 1982

The New York Improv: A Documentary

Jerry Seinfeld and Carol Leifer ask Bob Hope "a question from the audience," Larry David with hair, a headshot montage set to the Johnny Quest theme and lots of other neat goodies in this obscure documentary. I can't tell if it is three separate things pasted together, a doc, a newscast, and a home made chunk or what. Some footage is obviously from 1976-77, other parts are from 1983. I dunno.

Norm Crosby's Comedy Shop with guest Jimmy Martinez (1978)

Jimmy Martinez is surely a face you'll recognize, although you may not be able to figure out from where. He popped up in a handful of Richard Pryor and Mel Brooks films in the seventies and then disapeared in the eighties, never to be seen again. He was one of the regulars at The Comedy Store in its fertile heyday along with Garry Shandling, Jimmy Walker, Jay Leno, David Letterman, David Brenner, Skip Stephenson, Gary Mule Deer and so many others. You also may have watched him on the final episode of The Richard Pryor Show on Pryor's roast here. Here he is on the syndicated program The Comedy Shop - the first television program devoted strictly to stand-up.

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest host Freddie Prinze and guest Richard Pryor (1976)

I unfortunately can't embed this, but you can go directly to YouTube and watch this video, posted today, in parts one and two.

The Ed Sullivan Show with guests Senor Wences, Joan Rivers and Richard Pryor (1969-70) - Video Offline 2/21/08

The Richard Pryor Show: The Richard Pryor Roast (1977)

Whatever happened to Jimmy Martinez?

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Richard Pryor (1988)