Richard Pryor's Daughter Tackles Comedy

PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ Richard Pryor's daughter is offering a peek at what it was like to grow up with her famous father. <br/><br/>In her show ``Fried Chicken and Latkes,'' Rain Pryor discusses

Monday, March 28th 2005, 9:35 am

By: News On 6

PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ Richard Pryor's daughter is offering a peek at what it was like to grow up with her famous father.

In her show ``Fried Chicken and Latkes,'' Rain Pryor discusses seeing cocaine, prostitutes and affluence while visiting her dad. She narrates her story, acts out the parts of other people and sings a few songs.

``My dad has always been one to put his life right out there for you to look at. I took that approach because I saw how well audiences respond to it. I try to make you laugh at life,'' she told the Philadelphia Inquirer in Sunday's editions.

Rain Pryor is the child of a brief marriage between the comedian and a Jewish woman, Shelley Bonus, who was an aspiring actress working as a go-go dancer when she met Pryor in the late 1960s.

Her mother struggled to give her daughter a traditional middle-class upbringing in a modest Beverly Hills apartment. But when she visited her well-off father on the other side of town, she was exposed to a dysfunctional lifestyle in a servant-staffed house.

But even though Pryor mimics her father, she has no intention of trying to imitate his comedic path. ``I decided I'm going to fill my own shoes,'' she said. ``I'm not going to do his comedy.''

The show is playing at the Painted Bride Art Center on Thursday through Saturday.