Excerpted from "Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him ... On May 4, 1977, Richard and Chevy Chase both went on the Tonight Show to plug their respective TV specials, airing ...

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 ...

Live‘s biggest stars is getting his own documentaries. CNN is producing a feature-length documentary on Chevy Chase, the ...

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 ...

In 1975, Chase was on the fast-track to superstardom. This was thanks in large part to the first season of Saturday Night Live — then just called Saturday Night. One longstanding rumor is that ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Senior Editor Richard Pryor was married seven times to five ... Pryor hosted and performed an iconic word association sketch with Chevy Chase that ends with Chase essentially calling him a ...

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 ...