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Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor Sr. (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Known for reaching a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most important stand-up comedians of all time.
[Pryor set himself on fire while freebasing cocaine, a scene that's replicated in the autobiographical film.] At first, he didn't tell the truth about the fire — that it was a suicide attempt ...
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling is a 1986 American biographical [3] comedy-drama film directed, produced by and starring Richard Pryor, who also wrote the screenplay with Paul Mooney and Rocco Urbisci.
Produced by Pryor and Biff Dawes, the album was released alongside the comedian's film of the same name in 1982. The material includes Pryor's frank discussion of his drug addiction and of the night that he caught on fire while freebasing cocaine in 1980. The album later won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording in 1982.
The Indianapolis comedian and actor discussed his past drug use, the state of comedy and why he hasn't starred in a Richard Pryor biopic. Mike Epps says he was using cocaine when filming movies ...
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip has received mixed reviews.Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 40% based on reviews from five critics. [4]Writing in Commentary, conservative reviewer Richard Grenier saw Pryor's performance as embodying, and as forcing White audiences to accept and respect, an urban type that was more authentic than that exemplified by other Black comedians:
If you did enough cocaine, you'd f-ck a radiator and send it flowers in the morning." Richard Pryor died of a heart attack at the age of 65 in 2005. See photos of Marlon Brando:
An emergency room physician at the Sherman Oaks Community Hospital said that Pryor had told him that the fire had been caused by an explosion while Pryor was freebasing cocaine in a crack pipe. Pryor's manager said that Pryor told him that he had accidentally set a glass of rum on fire while lighting a cigarette. [55] After spending 45 days in ...