The Richard Pryor Show | Black Death | 1977 |
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- Richard Pryor in a heavy metal band called 'Black Death'.
The Richard Pryor Show was an American comedy variety show starring and created by Richard Pryor. It premiered on NBC on Tuesday, September 13, 1977.
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Legend has it that somewhere in Minnesota a young man by the name of Prince Nelson Rogers saw this sketch and thought, yeah...
That's Prince Rogers Nelson. And that is quiet likely, since this Black Death skit was shown in 1976.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Doubt it
This explains the shirt Dr. Johnny Fever often wore on WKRP. Also the coffins seem to have inspired the pods in Spinal Tap. Ahead of his time was Rich. ❤
Dr. Fever !! I didn't make that connection. COOL !! ( I even had a Black Death tee shirt for a while.)
Richard Pryor and the writers were geniuses for this concept. Way ahead of his time......
Richard was too cool for this.
Too cool for what? Breaking the rules of network television by creating content that actually made viewers THINK? Pryor was exactly cool enough for that.
@spaceclown7650 This is something that makes you think? What you find thought provoking and what I find thought provoking are 2 different things. Lol
@@melb5244 Apparently so.
the music is so KISS
I swear I saw Zappa up there! 😂 ❤ Gotta trip balls and see this at least once!! 😅
This is quite disturbing
hell of a show
Ahhh I wish I was there
You would be dead! Lol :)
that was awesome! that's the way rock and roll is supposed to be. this band needs to be resurrected.
I love this clip so much 🤩
Richard Pryor like you have never seen before 😆🤣
The crazy part this show never aired. NBC already pulled the plug. We only saw the preview at the end of the previous show. We didn't get to see it until 1987 when it was briefly syndicated to local stations
Not true. I distinctly remember discussing this skit with friend back in college in the late 1970’s early 80’s
@@ltyler01 Every market is different. Where I lived we didn't see it until 1987
I saw this episode when it premiered
@@Steve-mp7by No Shit?
If memory serves, it was the first skit of the first episode, followed by a mediocre spoof of the Star Wars cantina scene
The begining reminds me of the scene from This is Spinal Tap when the band comes out of the pods.
Awesome!!😍🤘
🙋🏾♂️ I remember seeing this on TV as a kid. It was disturbing then as is now.
Well, like they say, "give the people what they want." XD
It's a shame Pryor was so ahead of his time that they canceled him after 4 shows. He was doing stuff that nobody else even came close to. Some of it was funny, some of it was more serious (like the gun store sketch) and made you think. Black Death was a little of both.
Of course the major TV networks never wanted their audiences to think TOO deeply. Which maybe explains why they pulled Pryor off the air so quickly.
The piece featuring Maya Angelou was particularly moving (Richie even featured John Belushi & Dick Gregory in straight roles). Of course, walking out naked in front of a studio audience can have its detractors 😏.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 that guy was funny
Total genius. -- Spinal Tap, and just like them, I think he was into Metal. He comes down as a black crow. What the fuck? All sorts of stuff going on here. It is loving as much as it is damning.
This is where Death Metal and Black Metal started 🤘🏽🤘🏽🎸🎸
No black metal and death metal started from Black Sabbath Black Sabbath are the ones who started metal in the early seventies get your facts straight now
@@princegiles9309 Nope Hendrix created all of it in 1966. Get your facts straight now
It's not really Death Metal. Listen to that funky backbeat. No Death Metal I ever heard sounded quite like that. The only heavy metal band I can think of that sounds this funky is Deep Purple, mostly thanks to Jon Lord's keyboards. This song is a hybrid of metal and funk and probably a few other things. Listen to that riff. It doesn't just rock, it boogies.
@@spaceclown7650lol 🤣🤣
No you get your facts straight. Black Sabbath was an acid rock band.@@princegiles9309
That costume is lit tho.
There actually was an African American rock band called Black Death
There was also an all-black rock band just called Death :
ua-cam.com/video/uAZ9R2t5Jd0/v-deo.html
Bullshit
No they were called just Death and they was Punk Rock before it came out
@darthlord8427 Black death from Cleveland had an album in 1984. And yes there was Death from Detroit
@@Lp_steelnight 100 percent correct. Death from Detrot(keep on knockin) and Black Death from Cleveland. Don't we all wish we had that single for Death from Detroit. There is some good shit out there from Black Death. Documentary also about Death from Detriot that you might cry to. It is all great. Music has no boundries.
Richard Pryor brought me here.
The truth in plain sight but many won’t accept it because it ruins their reality
Extreme metal is the only musical genre that was accidentally invented by a comedian
Pryor Pryor pryor
Lmao 😂
Love Sarah Bernhard
so who were the musicians who actually played the music?
The man was a genius, and that term is used entirely too lightly these days.
This is such a bizarre clip.
No it’s not
this is how Millenial grandparents deal with gen z alpha brats lol!!!
At least he wasn't performing in Berlin in a Nazi uniform.
Ye brought me here
Burzum
No.
Tina Turner and who u think? Richard Pryor was playing.
George Clinton. The band was imitating Kiss and Black Sabbath
@@Steve-mp7byand Judas Priest. 🎸💊⚗️💉
You know......family entertainment. This must have horrified the home viewing audience in 1977. I'm amazed it was aired when children were watching. The idea that Richard Pryor thought that families, including children, would find the mass execution of young people at a concert funny, shows that he was way out of touch with what was acceptable.
His parody of Jimmy Hendrix and metal bands was brilliant. But mass murder as family entertainment?
When the lead singer from a group called Black Death tells you "I'm going to kill All of you!", take him seriously.
I disagree. This was spinal tap before it happened. You are missing the joke.
@@stefanveatch2 , So, if I find it gruesome for young children to watch, I am missing the joke?
Sure.
@@maskedmarvyl4774 Fine. A joke is not always for kids to understand. I want to protect all the inocient like you do. I really do. I guess I find this vid to be more that it meets to the eye. It is a social comment on being black in a weary world. He could do it, and he did. So sorry the kids had to see it.
Mass murder was nothing new back then...and the kids who saw this were not impacted negatively by it...kids watch the news and read about rock n roll...and we're very conscious of..RIGHT AND WRONG....THE WORLD NEWS SHOWED WAR .....WAR IS MASS MURDER....NOTHING OFFENSIVE ABOUT THIS SKIT....THE TRUTH ABOUT DRUGS AND MUSIC 🎶🎵 WAS DISPLAYED!!!
@@stefanveatch2this skit has nothing to do with a single race..your mind is limited.
Coincidence? There was also a proto-punk Band Called Death in 1971 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_(proto-punk_band)
Keep on knocking at the door.