The legendary bit featured Chevy Chase as a corporate manager interviewing ... As Scott Saul details in his 2014 book, “Becoming Richard Pryor,” even Michaels — who had lobbied his network ...

That’s why Lorne Michaels had to have Richard Pryor. The show’s claims to hip ... brave society’s scorn when they fall in love. Chevy Chase kept dogging Mooney all week to write something ...

But one of the sketches that put Saturday Night Live on the map was a controversial two-minute interview between a Chevy Chase character and Richard Pryor’s character, who had applied for a ...

It’s a simple premise: Richard Pryor is interviewing for a job and Chevy Chase is the interviewer who asks him to say the first word that comes to mind when hearing another given word.

Today, comedian and actor Chevy Chase has a wildly uneven ... that he was the heir apparent to Johnny Carson — Richard Pryor hinted at Chase taking over The Tonight Show back in 1977.

Chevy Chase and Bill Murray squashed the beef ... The party made him miss his “dear friend,” comedian Richard Pryor, who died in 2005 of a heart attack at age 65. “He should’ve been ...

Paul Mooney, who was comedian Richard Pryor’s longtime writing partner ... Pryor played a job applicant who interviews with Chevy Chase, the show’s breakout star. An ensuing word-association ...

The two worked together on the short-lived 1977 variety series “The Richard Pryor Show”; “Pryor ... insults job-interview sketch with Chevy Chase, written by Mr. Mooney.

Richard Pryor. He should’ve been there." Judd Apatow Calls It Ends with Us a 'Terrible Movie' While Roasting Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni at DGA Awards Chevy Chase/Instagram Among the many ...