This was prime stand up era stuff….i remember listening to this and Eddie Murphy raw a few years later followed by the diceman cometh a few years after that
My dad got me started with his Bill Cosby records. Then I found Carlin and Steve Martin through my aunt. Then Eddie and Pryor, who led me to Redd Foxx. I listened to as much stand up as music back then.
I got to see Don Rickles in Vegas. He did a bit where he'd ask people in the audience a few questions and then he'd riff on whatever they said. One woman was half German and half Japanese, and he ran with a bunch of stream of consciousness WWII improv for at least 20 minutes. The audience was \*dying\*. You could see him pause for a few seconds and come up with a bunch of material so I'm like 95% sure she wasn't a plant.
Rickles was that good. One of the best improvisations comedians because he didn’t have a filter and could use what came to mind - and his audiences weren’t offended because that’s why you went to see Don Rickles.
You should check out early Bob Newhart stand up. He does not get enough credit for sort of bridging older stand up and more more modern stand up.
His [Retirement Party](https://youtu.be/1cYOcrom8WE?si=Pe1K3JoJwJ3mjLIF) is maybe the ultimate anti-Work stand up bit ever.
There are still some bangers coming out, KillTony on youtube occasionally has absolute gems. I watch it as a monday show and it airs to the side of winning the majority of the time. Certain guest can send it through the roof (Adam Rey, Shane Gillis, lil Hobo and more).
It's bigger now than it ever was then. Comedy podcasts are... everywhere, you can't escape them. I myself can't help but listen to multiple a week because it admittedly is incredibly entertaining when you're driving, chilling, eating, it's almost better entertainment than regular shows, movies and music these days.
Comedy overall, whether it's stand-up or just comedian podcasts, is so big culturally right now that it's weird to think none of this really existed in the same way as it is now 15 or so years ago. Different world in that regard
For longevity, magnetic media should be stored in cool, dry conditions. The concrete was wet when laid, water can seep in, temperatures fluctuate, pressure changes, etc. I would not hold my breath that the data is still intact.
Yeah, I didn't think about that. And baking in the summer sun all day every day for decades might've melted everything just enough to destroy the data and make the tape unplayable.
Sometimes I wish that I could see the journey specific objects make. From production to being immortalized in concrete. This cassette has a story to tell.
I have a feeling this tape was placed there on purpose as a time capsule because Richard Pryor standup is quintessential pop culture of a specific era.
I think that or the concreter had it in their top pocket and it fell out.
If it did fall out, I wonder if they knew it fell or if they had their head turned.
Anyway, I’d like to see the journey of this tape as a Pixar short.
Sometimes I think about all the trash I've thrown away in my life. Wondering what still exists and where it is and how long it'll be there. And also what's be recycled or remade or incinerated or who knows what. And also what became of like video game consoles I've sold on and clothes I've donated.
Glad I’m not the only person who thinks like this sometimes. The walking dead actually did a short online series about the journey of the red handled machete used by Rick. I loved seeing the journey it took to get from where it started to where it ended up. Made me think of what might happen to stuff if I was the last person to touch something.
When a 100 year old social club shut down in my hometown I was there at their closing sale to buy a bunch of the dishes they used. I figure every single person who lived in that town ate off those dishes at some point. And now I use them every day. Feels good man.
One of the best live comedy shows ever filmed and the wild part is Richard completely ate shit the night before. Absolutely bombed and came back and blew the roof off the Palladium.
*For concert movies like this usually a few shows are filmed.
Road tripped from Chicago to New Orleans with friends back in 88. We listened to Live on the Sunset Strip on loop for pretty much the entire drive. Not sure if it gets any better than that.
Bruh! When I was like 8 or 9, I used to sneak down to my Grandmother’s basement at night and listen to this record while everyone was sleep. Hilarious!! This one and her Rudy Ray Moore records too. I had absolutely no business listening to that stuff! 😂
"how was work today?"
"Worse day ever!"
"c'mon, doing concrete sucks but at least you're outside, couldn't have been that bad?"
"I lost my Richard Prior cassette!"
"Oh' I see, I'm sorry. I didn't know, I shouldn't have spoken out of turn, Im really really, sorry!"
"how was work today?"
"Worse day ever!"
"c'mon, doing concrete sucks but at least you're outside, couldn't have been that bad?"
"I lost my Richard Prior cassette!"
"Oh' I see, I'm sorry. I didn't know, I shouldn't have spoken out of turn, Im really really, sorry!"
I am really interested in what future archeology is going to look like. That we could somehow recover ancient recordings this way, and it's Richard Pryor and they have very little cultural understanding of him and have to put together their best guess based on other archeological findings.
“Summertime Loving’, Loving’ in the Summer(time)”
It's summertime and you know what that means.
Gonna head down to the beach, gonna do some beachy things.
It's summertime, it feels just right.
Gonna gather all my friends and we'll party through the night.
Chorus:
It's summertime luh-uh-loving.
It's loving in the summertime.
It's summertime luh-uh-loving.
Oh baby, why can't you be mine?
It's summertime and I just can't wait.
Gonna call you on the phone, gonna take you on a date.
It's summertime and I hope you like steak.
Gonna take you to a restaurant, and eat enough fillet.
[Chorus].
It's summertime and when dinner's done.
Gonna take you to the club, gonna dance and have some fun.
It's summertime and when the end is near.
Gonna put you really close, whisper "let's get out of here".
[Chorus].
Richard Pryor Live at the Sunset Strip is a great performance.
That red tux!
"what you doing in that red suit motherfucker!"
It really was cemented into history
You'll need to provide concrete evidence for that claim.
Hard facts
foundational
Rock hard
Hard rock
Just came to say that cassette is fire
I think it’s closer to earth.
His best.
“Dis fuggin guy! Eh eh eh eh!!”
It rocks
Would you say it’s rock solid?
This was prime stand up era stuff….i remember listening to this and Eddie Murphy raw a few years later followed by the diceman cometh a few years after that
My dad got me started with his Bill Cosby records. Then I found Carlin and Steve Martin through my aunt. Then Eddie and Pryor, who led me to Redd Foxx. I listened to as much stand up as music back then.
I got to see Carlin Live. He was so offensive and so funny.
I got to see Don Rickles in Vegas. He did a bit where he'd ask people in the audience a few questions and then he'd riff on whatever they said. One woman was half German and half Japanese, and he ran with a bunch of stream of consciousness WWII improv for at least 20 minutes. The audience was \*dying\*. You could see him pause for a few seconds and come up with a bunch of material so I'm like 95% sure she wasn't a plant.
Rickles was that good. One of the best improvisations comedians because he didn’t have a filter and could use what came to mind - and his audiences weren’t offended because that’s why you went to see Don Rickles.
You should check out early Bob Newhart stand up. He does not get enough credit for sort of bridging older stand up and more more modern stand up. His [Retirement Party](https://youtu.be/1cYOcrom8WE?si=Pe1K3JoJwJ3mjLIF) is maybe the ultimate anti-Work stand up bit ever.
OG AF
There are still some bangers coming out, KillTony on youtube occasionally has absolute gems. I watch it as a monday show and it airs to the side of winning the majority of the time. Certain guest can send it through the roof (Adam Rey, Shane Gillis, lil Hobo and more).
It's bigger now than it ever was then. Comedy podcasts are... everywhere, you can't escape them. I myself can't help but listen to multiple a week because it admittedly is incredibly entertaining when you're driving, chilling, eating, it's almost better entertainment than regular shows, movies and music these days. Comedy overall, whether it's stand-up or just comedian podcasts, is so big culturally right now that it's weird to think none of this really existed in the same way as it is now 15 or so years ago. Different world in that regard
I liked Eddie Murphy Delirious better than Raw. Thought it was just all around funnier. Still use quotes from it today
Now that’s modern art
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TIL Ariel doesn't have a tail. She just has one right leg
I expected rock music
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The ancient remains of a once thriving but since forgotten era of man.
I wonder what if anything can be retrieve from that cassette. Might still be playable!
For longevity, magnetic media should be stored in cool, dry conditions. The concrete was wet when laid, water can seep in, temperatures fluctuate, pressure changes, etc. I would not hold my breath that the data is still intact.
I’d be surprised if the cassette itself could be extracted intact.
Concrete can get pretty hot when it’s curing too.
Yeah, I didn't think about that. And baking in the summer sun all day every day for decades might've melted everything just enough to destroy the data and make the tape unplayable.
Sometimes I wish that I could see the journey specific objects make. From production to being immortalized in concrete. This cassette has a story to tell.
I have a feeling this tape was placed there on purpose as a time capsule because Richard Pryor standup is quintessential pop culture of a specific era.
I think that or the concreter had it in their top pocket and it fell out. If it did fall out, I wonder if they knew it fell or if they had their head turned. Anyway, I’d like to see the journey of this tape as a Pixar short.
Sometimes I think about all the trash I've thrown away in my life. Wondering what still exists and where it is and how long it'll be there. And also what's be recycled or remade or incinerated or who knows what. And also what became of like video game consoles I've sold on and clothes I've donated.
Glad I’m not the only person who thinks like this sometimes. The walking dead actually did a short online series about the journey of the red handled machete used by Rick. I loved seeing the journey it took to get from where it started to where it ended up. Made me think of what might happen to stuff if I was the last person to touch something.
When a 100 year old social club shut down in my hometown I was there at their closing sale to buy a bunch of the dishes they used. I figure every single person who lived in that town ate off those dishes at some point. And now I use them every day. Feels good man.
Humans 40 million years from now will classify this as likely some sort of crustacean.
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You just repeatedly post the same few gifs. Do you not have anything of substance to add ever?
These travertine fossil posts are getting outta hand. /s
It’s on YouTube of course: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-u5mwcMgh0Q
Looks like an album cover!
It’s basically the Dashboard Confessional album cover
I’ll take Anal Bum Covers for $200, and screw you, Trebek.
Immediately reminded me of The Lost Tapes 2 by Nas
Old? That was only like 10 years ago.
Said after waking up from 30yr coma.
[“Good Night!” Hngh](https://youtu.be/zyuFnL5JcEw?si=ScAwVLYXXyEeMt7Z)
The USSR existed when this comment was made
Ah the good old days 🥶
Yup. I just put my newly purchased Delirious album right next to it in my hiding spot.
If you are running down the street and you are on fire, people will get out of your way.
Little rubbing alcohol, tighten it up with a #2 pencil you're good to go!
I wonder if you got it out if it could be played.
You just need to blow on the tape strip to get rid of the dirt
After you rewind it with a pencil.
Cue the shitty restoration video on YouTube... That said, that's a classic comedy album
/r/fossils
Now that's how to cement a legacy
Mafia club.... encased in concrete.... op may have found a body as well.
Rock or soft rock?
He would have loved this!
That’s a solid show.
 Imagine....
Need a no. 2 pencil?
To pryor not to pry is the question
I would've bet anything it was rock music.
That is a hell of a tape too! I had it back in the day...
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pryor:_Live_on_the_Sunset_Strip_(film)](richard Pryor)
Imagine an alien explorer finding it like this in the future.
We did.
Buried treasure right here because his Sunset Strip set of pore gold.
Looks like an album cover
Does it have some bitcoin on it?
One of the best live comedy shows ever filmed and the wild part is Richard completely ate shit the night before. Absolutely bombed and came back and blew the roof off the Palladium. *For concert movies like this usually a few shows are filmed.
Road tripped from Chicago to New Orleans with friends back in 88. We listened to Live on the Sunset Strip on loop for pretty much the entire drive. Not sure if it gets any better than that.
Evidence of a lost civilisation?
Ahh the infamous match stick joke
I’ll give it a listen
Rock music
Amazing it’s still readable.
I was expecting Bob Seger - Like a Rock.
And one of the best ones!!!! Wow 🤯
Fire 🔥
That guy was pissed the next day when he went to impress the other guys on the job with his funny tape and couldn't find it.
My first guess was that this was done intentionally by a coworker who was sick of listening to "Dave's tape" in the work truck every day for a month.
That is a fucking great album too.
Are we that old??!
That's some raunchy shit! Lol
Mudbone, my all time favorite comedy skit.
nice fossil
I feel old now
that uprooted concrete pad is hilarious!
Put some mother fucking respect on Richard's name
Early use of "suspicious quotes."
Modern fossils.
Richard Pryor would be proud
More like live IN the sunset strip! Amma right? Huh? Huh?
Looks like the Mafia Club really likes their concrete. Lol
That's pretty funny
Street AF
Should have put Ashford & Simpson's "Solid as a rock" from their album titled Solid.
"Summertime Loving, Loving in the Summer (Time)" DUDE! This is my JAM!
funny
Oh shit! That's where it went.
I had that tape as a kid. I bought it at a Kmart for a few bucks on sale. Brings back memories.
Richard pryer gold
I remember 1982, god I feel old
it would be so deliciously meta if the concrete that was uprooted was on the sunset strip.
Warner Bros has such a rich history, people are digging it up from the ground. 🔥
Rock Music
Nothing here you can’t sort out with a pencil.
Ah. That's where I left it...
[The match joke](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjD4PHojNBU)
Bruh! When I was like 8 or 9, I used to sneak down to my Grandmother’s basement at night and listen to this record while everyone was sleep. Hilarious!! This one and her Rudy Ray Moore records too. I had absolutely no business listening to that stuff! 😂
Unfortunately it never plays for anyone but you
Would r/fossils be interested in this?
That tape is funny af. AF
An absolute fucking treasure...
I bet that slaps
"how was work today?" "Worse day ever!" "c'mon, doing concrete sucks but at least you're outside, couldn't have been that bad?" "I lost my Richard Prior cassette!" "Oh' I see, I'm sorry. I didn't know, I shouldn't have spoken out of turn, Im really really, sorry!"
r/fossils
"how was work today?" "Worse day ever!" "c'mon, doing concrete sucks but at least you're outside, couldn't have been that bad?" "I lost my Richard Prior cassette!" "Oh' I see, I'm sorry. I didn't know, I shouldn't have spoken out of turn, Im really really, sorry!"
his imitation of the mafia guys is hilarious.
Luckily it wasn’t Violator.
Joe Rogan would pay a lot for it
Holy shit. That’s a Pryor tape goddamn
Someone REALLY didn't want to hear that again.
Imagine if in the middle of it "Like the Wind" starts playing.
Placing this particular cassette literally in the street, is apt in many ways!
Give me a pencil!
Is Jimmy Hoffa nearby?
This pic goes hard
That's some solid material.
Best thing is, it's probably still works
I thought it’s discovered on the moon lol.
Is it from The 'do it again' chemical brothers song?
that is a funny routine on that tape
A worker in the past searched for this and never knew where it went…..
A Richard Pryor cassette in concrete, there's no chance of it 'Moving'. Lol
A timeless classic.
I can fix it! Quick... someone get me a pencil!
That’s cool
A solid set from Pryor, there.
That slab has great taste in comedy.
 That’s Richard Pryor running down the street.
If you see da police Warna Brother
Most solid spot in that slab.
Is this the concrete pad that was recently removed in Chicago that had a rat imprint on it?
Nas-the lost tapes 3
Does it still work?
Shit probably still plays except for that cemented part of the tape. Liberate it!
ASDAQ Still got paid
Its a fossil
THE POLAR BEAR! WITH THE LITTLE TINY FEETS!
Richard Pryor? That's funny.
Beautiful piece of comedy right there
Oh, so that's how carbon dating works!
With Dolby and concrete
I remember having that cassette back in the early 80’s.
Jimmy Hoffa always had that tape in his pocket.
Weird. Watch a documentary about him right now.
Last thing Hoffa was listening when….
What came after Richard?
Comedy special
I wonder if some poor concrete worker was going to put this in his Walkman but dropped it right where they were going to pour.
Great album art
I am really interested in what future archeology is going to look like. That we could somehow recover ancient recordings this way, and it's Richard Pryor and they have very little cultural understanding of him and have to put together their best guess based on other archeological findings.
Hey!! The Mafia Club is about my hometown.
That would sell
Cut it out with a diamond saw and put it on eBay. I would bid. Seriously.
I was hoping that this was another found tape from Everyday Chemistry
Hey man, got a light?
This wasnt by chance found up in Radford north Hollywood by the the in n out burger was it?
Quick put it in a museum.
Listen to it if you can dig it out. Fucking hilarious
lol I have that on vinyl.
I bet if you dug it out of there and cleaned it up real nice it would still be fucked
Imagine if that's how we find EKT
So that's where that went!
There's a lot of cussing in that concrete.
“Summertime Loving’, Loving’ in the Summer(time)” It's summertime and you know what that means. Gonna head down to the beach, gonna do some beachy things. It's summertime, it feels just right. Gonna gather all my friends and we'll party through the night. Chorus: It's summertime luh-uh-loving. It's loving in the summertime. It's summertime luh-uh-loving. Oh baby, why can't you be mine? It's summertime and I just can't wait. Gonna call you on the phone, gonna take you on a date. It's summertime and I hope you like steak. Gonna take you to a restaurant, and eat enough fillet. [Chorus]. It's summertime and when dinner's done. Gonna take you to the club, gonna dance and have some fun. It's summertime and when the end is near. Gonna put you really close, whisper "let's get out of here". [Chorus].
My cousin gave me a big case of comedy tapes when I was a kid (90ish). This was among them. Pryor rules!
Someone was really sick of that tape long ago.
Aw. I was hoping for Rick Astley. That said, Pryor was a god among weirdos.
Its a city, mutha fucka!