{"id":52,"date":"2014-11-26T04:31:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T04:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsforknowledge.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:37:47","slug":"the-richard-pryor-show-1977-star-wars-cantina-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsforknowledge.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Richard Pryor Star Wars Cantina Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Richard Pryor&#8217;s variety show only aired four episodes in 1977, and of course they had to do a Star Wars sketch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pryor plays a bartender running a \u2018Star Wars Bar&#8217;, populated with aliens wearing authentic costumes from the actual Mos Eisley Cantina sequence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s really just Richard free styling and wandering around, mingling with and reacting to mute Star Wars aliens. Pretty cool to see the actual masks and costumes being used for a sketch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things to watch for:<br>&#8220;Fuzz&#8221; the bouncer shows up first around 2:20<br>Pryor cracks up around 3:08<br>We see a very 1977 arcade game around 4:00<br>There are Planet of the Apes Dr. Zaius jackets on various characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Richard Pryor Star Wars Bar\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h8_HtaRcWm0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Pryor&#8217;s variety show only aired four episodes in 1977, and of course they had to do a Star Wars sketch. Pryor plays a bartender running a \u2018Star Wars Bar&#8217;, populated with aliens wearing authentic costumes from the actual Mos Eisley Cantina sequence. It\u2019s really just Richard free styling and wandering around, mingling with and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videoknowledge","post_format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsforknowledge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsforknowledge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsforknowledge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsforknowledge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsforknowledge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/itsforknowledge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/itsforknowledge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsforknowledge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsforknowledge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsforknowledge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsforknowledge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}