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It’s Conan O’Brien’s big night — at Donald Trump’s Kennedy Center

Detroit news 20 Mar 2025
the Kennedy Center Honors and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Both events celebrate artists who have made significant contributions to American culture ... Previous Twain winners include George Carlin, Richard Pryor and Jon Stewart ... ” ... And men.
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Stephen Lang on standing up to a muumuu-wearing Steven Seagal and working with Michael Mann

AV Club 19 Mar 2025
Bogdanovich was replaced by Maurice Phillips.] So I did it originally to work with Bogdanovich, but also to work with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor ... to work with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.
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The Best New Movies on Paramount+ in March 2025

The Wrap 15 Mar 2025
Comedy icons Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy team up in a hilarious crime flick. The pair play Sugar Ray (Pryor) and his adopted son Quick (Murphy), who run a speakeasy club called Club Sugar Ray during the end of the Prohibition Era ... Warner Bros ... .
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The Victorians' obsession with cocaine: How discovery of 'wonder' drug's numbing effect in EYE operations ...

The Daily Mail 15 Mar 2025
In the UK, a 'new era' was announced by a senior doctor in the British Medical Association ... the nose job ... Above ... Above ... Read More ... They went on ... Celebrities including Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse and Richard Pryor died under its influence ... History. .
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Comedy legend Jerry Seinfeld comes to Beaver Creek

Vail Daily 13 Mar 2025
Born in Brooklyn in 1954, standups like George Carlin, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor inspired Seinfeld to some extent. But unlike Pryor, he was a clean comic with an observational style of humor that revolved around the absurdities of everyday life.
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His nickname is ‘Terrible,’ but bluesman’s life story is anything but

East Bay Times 13 Mar 2025
... where he’d perform at such celebrated venues as the Whisky a Go Go on Sunset Boulevard and even run a speakeasy that was frequented by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Red Foxx and Richard Pryor.
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Hot new musicals 'Hell's Kitchen,' 'Shucked,' 'Kimberly Akimbo' and more coming to OKC

The Oklahoman 12 Mar 2025
When. Sept. 9-14 ... Frank Baum's classic novel "The Wizard of Oz" into an all-Black "super soul musical" won seven Tony Awards and spawned a 1978 Oscar-nominated film adaptation starring Diana Ross, Lena Horne, Richard Pryor, Michael Jackson and Ted Ross.
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Andrew Schulz on fatherhood, the effects comedy has on politics and his new stand-up special, ‘Life’

The Los Angeles Times 04 Mar 2025
'When I can end my day by 5.45 p.m ... ... I don't want to be here ... I mean, even Eddie [Murphy], you know, like people in [Richard] Pryor, the way that they would talk about them like I can't believe they're saying these things like this is so this is crazy.
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The city where music never sleeps

Washington Square News 28 Feb 2025
Under the Arch. The city where music never sleeps ... Alex Woodworth and Kiran Komanduri . Feb. 28, 2025 ... to midnight ... Artists like Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor performed on the Cafe Wha? stage long before their rise to fame.
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'I'm a brave soul': Peoria artist's visionary creativity fuels a lifelong quest for honesty

Journal Star - Peoria 28 Feb 2025
As a sculptor, Preston Jackson surrounds himself with history ...It’s my weapon." ... The sculpture is slated to be completed by summer ... Touring in the 1960s and ‘70s, he was active in the civil rights movement and got to know Peoria native Richard Pryor.
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Gene Hackman’s Absolute Power

New York Magazine 28 Feb 2025
Even during a decade in which Shelley Duvall, Richard Pryor, Dustin Hoffman, Liza Minnelli, Telly Savalas, and other performers with faces off a city bus became marquee names, Hackman stood out by ...
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