Richard Pryor, Wanted

Nick: In the last few years, I've elevated Richard Pryor from funky black wiseass to political prophet. Covering everything from sensitive men to homo-simian sexual tensions, Wanted is both hysterically funny and breathtakingly intelligent. It is also dry, dear, and poignant, an unexpected balance of the spontaneous and the studied. With his attic obscenities, he was the Aristophanes of late twentieth century life, complete with gay myth of circular beings who roam the earth in search of erotic rest.