Comedy from daughter of comic legend, Richard Pryor

Описание: (15 Aug 2005) SHOTLIST

++++ Performance clips include some swearing ++++

APTN
Edinburgh, UK. August 8, 2005
1. Performance - 'Fried Chicken and Latkes'
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rain Pryor - on festival:
"I love my experience here. I mean, this is a great artistic, you know, the Fringe Festival is an artistic event and everyone, you get together and you feel the energy and the synergy and it's incredible. It's absolutely incredible."
3. Performance - 'Fried Chicken and Latkes'
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rain Pryor - on show::
"Well, 'Fried Chicken and Latkes' is about both halves of who Rain is. You know, I grew up black and Jewish and it's really, you know, it's a journey of self-awareness, I guess, which is a very American thing (laughs), you know, esoteric. And it's about just really coming into your own and accepting you know, who you are and your parents."
5. Performance - 'Fried Chicken and Latkes'
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rain Pryor - on pressure of father's legacy:
"You know I think the pressure is like you come over to a place like Scotland and everyone knows you're Richard Pryor's daughter first and so the expectation is, you're going to be doing stand-up, you know. So they come and I'm doing something completely different then stand-up. And I think that's where it's difficult to sort of say 'Well, I'm standing on my own feet, this is who I am, come see what I'm doing now'."
7. Performance - 'Fried Chicken and Latkes'
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rain Pryor - on father:
"Well, it' s like you go to my Dad's house and it was a surreal world: you'd have, one, my Dad was always surrounded by his family and always surrounded by people and not necessarily famous people, it was just people and you'd go there and it'd be chaotic, you know and you would, you'd have the hookers, the madams, the prostitutes. You know, all the girlfriends, all the wives, all the...you know and it's just like, 'Going, going, going, going, party, party, party' and then I'd go home and it would be me and my Mom."
9. Performance - 'Fried Chicken and Latkes'
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rain Pryor:
"Well, I think he's genius. I look at him because, for me, besides him being a great comic, my Dad was a great mime and a great, yeah mime and artist and I love watching him, to study what is he did and how he held on to a character and moments are really beautiful."
11. Performance - 'Fried Chicken and Latkes'

STAND UP IF YOU'VE GOT COMEDY IN YOUR GENES

She's got the prominent chin. She's got the quickfire delivery and and she's got the name.

Rain Pryor, 36-year-old daughter of the comic legend, Richard Pryor, has joined the family business and become a stand-up comic.

This summer she's on the bill at the the Edinburgh Fringe, enjoying her first performance in Europe after bursting on to the stand-up comedy stage in America, in the last 12 months.

Her first solo stand up show, 'Fried Chicken and Latkes,' lifts the lid on the extraordinary childhood she survived, which she spent travelling between her mother's conventional middle-class Jewish family and her famous father's mansion, a vice den often full of prostitutes and drugs.


At the time, Richard Pryor was shaking up America with his blistering observations on a country divided by race and sex, as well as vividly chronicling his own hell-raising antics. His turbo-charged stand up performances catapulted him into the comics pantheon alongside such legends as Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen.








But Rain says he has made it clear that he is proud of her decision to go into the family business.


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