LOS ANGELES — Sitting near the stage at the famed The Comedy Store, Arsenio Hall's thoughts immediately travel back to stand-up legend Richard Pryor. As Hall, 70, writes in "Arsenio: A Memoir" (Simon ...

Hall's late-night show gave hip-hop a home on TV and helped propel Bill Clinton to the White House. "I wanted to do this show that didn't exist... Even when Arsenio Hall's show was a hit, 'everyone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Hall, 70, writes in "Arsenio: A Memoir" (Simon & Schuster, March 31), mentor Pryor, who died in 2005, ruled the comedy mecca's ...

As a kid in Cleveland, Arsenio Hall remembers watching The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and feeling that something was missing. "I could watch ... for weeks at a time maybe never see a minority ...