Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Faizon Love, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Wayne Collins Jr., Jonell Green, Marques Houston
Directed By: Bruce W. Smith

One of America's most popular comedians, Bill Cosby treats his fans to a funny, satirical and heart-warming concert at Toronto's Hamilton Place Performing Arts Center. His material ranges from marriage and the unending trials of parenthood, to the side-splitting antics of the very young, and a hilarious encounter with a dentist's drill and needle. Insightful and witty, this highly entertaining ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Bill Cosby
Directed By: Bill Cosby

It's party time, but Kid (Christopher Reid) has been grounded by his strict but loving dad (Robin Harris). His best friend, Play (Christopher Martin), however, cooks up a scheme to sneak him out of the house so he can hook up with his honey at a buddy's house, where it's all going on. Rappers Kid 'N Play are engaging and funny--and entertaining rappers when they get the chance. The real find was ...

Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Starring: Paul Anthony, B-Fine, Verda Bridges, Tisha Campbell, Barry Diamond

Watching Pryor go from imitating a drinking deer to a woman debating about going in the woods gives just a hint of the comedic genius of the man. Crude, foul, and real, this is the first and best of his concert films. Pryor does dead-on impersonations of the respective races, cussing, trying to act tough, getting kicked in personal spots. But it's his imagination that elevates him to a different ...

Manufacturer: Mpi Home Video
Starring: Richard Pryor, Patti LaBelle, Jennifer Lee
Directed By: Jeff Margolis

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Starring: Michael Bofshever, John Capodice, Gary Cervantes, Devin DeVasquez, Don Diamont

Manufacturer: Time Life (Ventura)
Starring: Def Comedy Jam

Did you ever have a good concert spoiled by yahoos in the audience? In Richard Pryor: Here and Now, the last and least of Pryor's three concert films, Pryor's consummate comic genius is put to the supreme test by audience members who shout out, heckle, and otherwise break the spell during even the more potent, personal pieces, such as the near 15-minute character sketch about a junkie from ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Richard Pryor, Paul Mooney
Directed By: Richard Pryor

Taken together, Richard Pryor's concert films, the essential Live in Concert, the virtuoso Live on the Sunset Strip, and even the lesser Here and Now, provide a more incisive autobiographical portrait of the groundbreaking comedian than the fictionalized Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling. In Sunset Strip, Pryor relates two life-changing experiences. The first is ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Richard Pryor, Julie Hampton, Jesse Jackson, Gene Cross
Directed By: Joe Layton

Perhaps one of the greatest lights ever to shine on late-night television, Eddie Murphy has gone on to well-deserved international superstardom. Check out his earliest television work on Saturday Night Live: The Best of Eddie Murphy, a collection of his greatest roles, from Gumby to Stevie Wonder to Buckwheat. Of course, some would argue that his best role was as himself, and there is ...

Manufacturer: Vidmark / Trimark
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Sheree Ali, Billy Crystal, James Downey, Robin Duke
Directed By: Christopher Guest, Andy Breckman, Aviva Slesin, Claude Kerven, Dave Wilson

Friday is the rarest specimen of African American cinema: a 'hood movie refreshingly free of the semiseriousness and moralism of shoot 'em up soaps such as Boyz N the Hood, yet still true to the inner-city experience. Scripted by rapper Ice Cube, Friday is a no-frills tale of a typical day in the life of a pair of African American youth in South Central. Cube plays Craig, ...

Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Starring: Kathleen Bradley, Tony Cox, Ice Cube, Anna Maria Horsford, Anthony Johnson