Cameo critic: Wyatt Cenac on 'Becoming Richard Pryor'

October 31, 2015 at 7:00PM
Wyatt Cenac attends One Night Only: An All-Star Tribute To Don Rickles on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) ORG XMIT: INVW
Wyatt Cenac attends One Night Only: An All-Star Tribute To Don Rickles on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) ORG XMIT: INVW (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Comedian Wyatt Cenac, best known as a correspondent on "The Daily Show" and for his frequent appearances on late-night talk shows, has a deep appreciation for those who came before him.

Neal Justin

"I just finished 'Becoming Richard Pryor' by Scott Saul. The common narrative on Pryor is that he started off doing an imitation of Bill Cosby, then went to Las Vegas and kind of changed. But there's so much more to his story than that."

"Becoming Richard Pryor" by Scott Saul
"Becoming Richard Pryor" by Scott Saul (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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