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.

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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 ...

Chevy Chase kept dogging Mooney all week to write something for him and Richard to do together. Just as Michaels needed Richard to establish his show’s bona fides, Chevy needed airtime with him ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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.

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.

Chevy Chase has a complicated legacy, ... Jokes abounded that he was the heir apparent to Johnny Carson — Richard Pryor hinted at Chase taking over The Tonight Show back in 1977.

"'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 isn't much of an amigo to his 'Community' boss these days. ... Morris was "SNL's" first celebrity impersonation ace, mimicking the likes of Muhammed Ali, Richard Pryor, ...