{"id":39622,"date":"2015-11-13T17:07:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T23:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=39622"},"modified":"2015-11-13T17:07:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T23:07:51","slug":"ad-astra-review-rain-pryor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/11\/13\/ad-astra-review-rain-pryor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ad Astra Review: Rain Pryor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 26th, Rain Pryor and producer\u00a0Daryl Sledge presented their film, &#8220;That Daughter&#8217;s Crazy,&#8221; in the Kansas Union. The documentary features clips of\u00a0Pryor&#8217;s stand up comedy routine titled,\u00a0<em>Fried Chicken and<\/em> <em>Latkes\u00a0<\/em>intertwined with\u00a0commentary from her mother and grandmother. Both the movie and comedic act address her life growing up as a black, Jewish woman and her experience as the daughter of famed comedian, Richard Pryor.<\/p>\n<p>During an\u00a0interview with Pryor and Sledge, they discuss the\u00a0evolution of her stand up act, the\u00a0making\u00a0of the documentary and their future plans for the film. In addition,\u00a0Pryor talks about a few outstanding\u00a0experiences that led her to follow in her father&#8217;s footsteps of becoming a comedian, while simultaneously forging her own path in the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<p>They both speak very candidly about race, socioeconomic status and defining moments in their careers in an engaging and conscientious manner. Check out the interview below:<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kjhk\/ad-astra-radio-rain-pryor&amp;color=993300&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_user=false&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 26th, Rain Pryor and producer\u00a0Daryl Sledge presented their film, &#8220;That Daughter&#8217;s Crazy,&#8221; in the Kansas Union. The documentary features clips of\u00a0Pryor&#8217;s stand up comedy routine titled,\u00a0Fried Chicken and Latkes\u00a0intertwined with\u00a0commentary from her mother and grandmother. Both the movie and comedic act address her life growing up as a black, Jewish woman and her experience as the daughter of famed comedian, Richard Pryor. During an\u00a0interview with Pryor and Sledge, they discuss the\u00a0evolution of her stand up act, the\u00a0making\u00a0of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":39638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3226,15],"tags":[971,3971,3970],"class_list":["post-39622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-culture-articles","category-featured-on-kjhk","tag-ad-astra","tag-daryl-sledge","tag-rain-pryor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-13-at-5.01.55-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}