Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (2013) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Director Marina Zenovich pulled together archival footage and interviews with Dave Chappelle, Whoopi Goldberg, Mel Brooks, Robin Williams and Quincy Jones.

Pryor grew up in his grandmother's brothel in Peoria, Illinois, and built a career out of saying what American comedy otherwise kept quiet — race, addiction, poverty, and the 1980 freebase fire that burned him severely. Two Grammy wins for comedy albums in the mid-seventies. Then multiple sclerosis in 1986, then a long decline, then gone in 2005.

The film's title comes from a quote by Pryor himself. For anyone tracing where honest, autobiographical stand-up came from, this is the document. Watch Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic online on iFILM.