Live on the Sunset Strip
by Joe Layton
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Actor: Gene Cross, Jesse Jackson, Julie Hampton, Richard PryorDirector: Joe Layton
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Live, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-01-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Live on the Sunset Strip
Movie Review: That negro's hilarious!
Summary: 5 Stars
Peoria,Illinois-born Richard Pryor delivers another hilarious comedy routine filled with profanity of course. Unbelievably,one of the audience members was Rev. Jesse Jackson. Does Pryor mention the N-word? Of course,he does. Pryor,who followed in the footsteps back in the 1960's of another comedian three years his senior,Bill Cosby,influenced another trashmouthed comedian years later,Eddie Murphy. Both Pryor and Murphy influenced other trashmouthed black comedians such as Chris Rock and Dave Chapelle. Cosby himself,has always detested the use of profanity. Instead of the so-called profane words rhyming with "luck" and "spit",Cosby would instead say "filth,foul,filth". It may have happened to Pryor,Rock and Chapelle,but Cosby did once chastise Murphy on the phone for Murphy's obscene humor. I believe Cosby believes that profanity use is totally unnecessary. That's why Cosby's humor,as opposed to those of the others,is suitable for young children. In this concert,Pryor displays sexually-oriented humor as usual with the commonly spoken slang. I dedicate this item to the memory of Pryor(12/1/40-12/10/05).
Summary of Live on the Sunset Strip
Taken together, Richard Pryor's concert films, the essential Live in Concert, the virtuoso Live on the Sunset Strip, and even the lesser Here and Now, provide a more incisive autobiographical portrait of the groundbreaking comedian than the fictionalized Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling. In Sunset Strip, Pryor relates two life-changing experiences. The first is his trip to "the motherland," Africa. As funny as is the routine in which Pryor gives voice to a couple of cheetahs poised to prey on unsuspecting gazelles, he brings the audience up short with a moving revelation that leads him to forswear ever again calling another black person the "N-word." The second, of course, is his near-fatal freebasing accident, which Pryor at first jokingly passes off as an accident involving milk and cookies. Then, he takes the audience step by harrowing step through his growing cocaine addiction (abetted by his untrustworthy pipe which speaks to him in reassuring tones), alienation from friends, including the formidable Jim Brown ("Whatcha gonna do?"), the explosion that resulted in third-degree burns over the upper half of his body, and finally, the agonizing rehab. It is even more unflinching and savagely funny than his Live in Concert routine about his heart attack. Other memorable bits include his experiences as a 19-year-old stand-up comedian working at a Mafia-owned club, a monologue from one of his signature characters, Mudbone, and his visit to a penitentiary while filming Stir Crazy. Sunset Strip captures Pryor's triumphant return to the stage. He is a survivor, unbowed, winning this round over the demons that plagued him throughout his career. --Donald LiebensonComedy DVD Video
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