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Late comedian Richard Pryor once asked fellow comedian, Chevy Chase, why he didn’t tell Johnny Carson he was going to take over The Tonight Show — and he did it while both comedians were ...

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 ...

How Paul Mooney made SNL a cultural phenomenon with one legendary Richard Pryor-Chevy Chase sketch. May 20, 2021. Paul Mooney, seen here in 2016, died Wednesday at 79.

"'You’ve all been asking me to put Chevy [Chase] and Richard [Pryor] together,' I say. After all the bullshit I’ve been put through to get here, the fucking cross-examination Lorne [Michaels ...

Chevy Chase certainly holds up his end of the bargain as a pencil-pusher interviewing applicants for a janitor job, but Richard Pryor is the life’s blood of this sketch, and it was written by ...

Pryor was fearless — or so it seemed. His famous word association standoff with Chevy Chase on Saturday Night Live was groundbreaking. His use of profanity, of the "n" word was unheard of.

A non-stand-up moment, but one that might be one of Pryor’s most recognizable on any screen. It’s a simple premise: Richard Pryor is interviewing for a job and Chevy Chase is the interviewer ...

One of Pryor's sketches with cast member Chevy Chase was featured as part of "SNL 50," which aired Sunday on NBC. Background: Comedy legend Richard Pryor forever linked to Peoria ...

Chevy Chase and Bill Murray took an epic photo together at Chris Rock's 60th birthday party on the weekend of the ... The party made him miss his “dear friend,” comedian Richard Pryor, ...

"I'd want to be on it," Chase told the Journal Star. "And I'd want to have Danny Aykroyd, Richard Pryor, Ernie Kovacs and Charlie Chaplin with me.

We won't go through Richard Pryor's long career or explain his history. You know it. We'll just say that we think his skit with Chevy Chase on Saturday Night Live is probably the finest and most ...