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Comedy legends get their due, in print and on screen

After Lenny Bruce’s daring experimentation and free-speech advocacy changed the very notion of what a comedian could be—standup wizards like Richard Pryor and George Carlin picked up the comedic baton and carried it to astounding heights in the 1970s with their brazen, witty, insightful and, of course, hilarious social commentary. Pryor’s fearless confessional style and heartfelt monologues shattered walls and fostered important discussion of race and racism, using comedy as a tool to engage taboo subjects in American culture. And Carlin’s bitingly sarcastic, anti-authoritarian diatribes tore gaping holes in the façades of polite society and its nonsensical rules, eventually finding...  read more

The Richard Pryor Collection

A mixed bag of the late comic’s screen work  read more