Special Edition: Comedian Richard Pryor:s Daughter Rain Pryor Discusses Her Book :Jokes My Father N
NBC ID: ARXA1961Q3 | Production Unit: Today Show | Media Type: Aired Show | Media ID: NY-TDY-20061108-0001 | Air Date(s): 11/08/2006 | Event Date(s): 11/08/2006Beschreibung
Event Date(s): 11/08/2006 | Event Location(s): Today New York Studio; | Description: EJ: 9:43:27 (:27) INT MS: Comedian Richard Pryor performs comedy routine on stage. CLIP: Letterbox clip from movie"Brewster's Millions" with actors Pryor and John Candy. CLIP: Letterbox clip from movie"Bustin' Loose" with actors including Pryor. 9:45:17 (:23) INT MS: Pryor performs comedy routine on stage. Pryor's daughter Rain seen live in-studio. Rain's book"Jokes My Father Never Taught Me" seen. In live in-studio interview Rain notes why she wrote the book, recalls her first meeting with her father at age four, describes life with her father, notes how she handled all the prostitutes in her father's life, jokes her parents were high in the 1960's when they named her, says she and her siblings bonded towards the end of her father's life, and describes her father's decline from Multiple Sclerosis. STILLS: Rain and Pryor including Rain as a child.