Inside ‘SNL’s Classic Richard Pryor/Chevy Chase Job Interview Sketch

“‘You’ve all been asking me to put Chevy [Chase] and Richard [Pryor] together,’ I say. After all the bullshit I’ve been put through to get here, the fucking cross-examination Lorne [Michaels] subjects me to, I decide to do a job interview of my own. Chevy’s the boss, interviewing Richard for a janitor’s job.”

-Paul Mooney in an excerpt from the new Richard Pryor biography, Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him in Salon, telling the story of the famous 1975 Chevy Chase/Richard Pryor racial slur job interview sketch from SNL.

Inside ‘SNL’s Classic Richard Pryor/Chevy Chase Job […]