This is the true precursor to Dave Chapelle, without the meandering fidgetty studio audience part of Chapelle's show.
"BLACK METAL!" Any skit where a funked out metal band in Screamin' Jay Hawkins/Mentors/George Clinton uniforms kills its entire audience throughout the entirely of the skit can't not be completely fucking funny. I can't believe a major network in 1977 let this air. I'm blown away.
― donut christ (donut), Monday, 27 December 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago)
― donut christ (donut), Monday, 27 December 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago)
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― donut christ (donut), Monday, 27 December 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago)
i just started watching this. six episodes only, right?
This is the true precursor to Dave Chapelle
yes, this was the first thing i thought of. also a few echoes of "louie" insofar as pryor was totally unafraid to have long stretches of no lols but just straight drama, i.e. the WWII lounge act sequence
completely blown away by what a canny, precise actor pryor was
god, sandra bernhardt was gorgeous
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 27 June 2011 09:48 (fourteen years ago)
Saw this on NBC in '77.
Bought the set at Amoeba SF about 4 years ago. Haven't watched it yet.
― joyless shithead (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 June 2011 10:45 (fourteen years ago)
it's maybe the best TV sketch comedy i've seen. edgier than any comedy on TV now by far. so ambitious! one scene has african dancers doing an entire dance from start to finish, maybe 6 minutes or so of just drumming and joyous dancing.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 27 June 2011 11:00 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqteDk15Ud8
^ this is incredible
― blended haircrüt (absolutely clean glasses), Monday, 27 June 2011 12:29 (fourteen years ago)
oops, just four eps! each one's an hour, though. and there's a "special" which I haven't watched but apparently co-stars John Belushi.
The roast of Pryor in the last episode is pretty awesome. Paul Mooney was a smooth, good looking motherfucker. GOD DAMN.
And speaking of sexy, MARSHA WARFIELD. JESU CHRISTO.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 12:39 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PFky0KdrVQ
Damn. Didn't realize that was Roz from Night Court. Tracer OTM.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:21 (fourteen years ago)
Still is? Not gonna gis it, but I think I saw a minute-long makeup commercial with her a few months ago and she looked enviably stunning.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:52 (fourteen years ago)
you guys are insane and or gay
― winoa ryder sexes creatures of the night (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:57 (fourteen years ago)
Sandra Bernhardt? Gorgeous? damn
― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 22:00 (fourteen years ago)
Straight. I guess I have bad taste.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 22:13 (fourteen years ago)
shakey have you seen The Richard Pryor Show??
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 08:58 (fourteen years ago)
some of it
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 15:21 (fourteen years ago)
Classic as hell, with the exception of this bit of insipid-ness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzN99j-Keg
― thirdalternative, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:31 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE1f4awlxVc
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 June 2020 16:52 (five years ago)