TV and stand-up — will examine the complex highs and lows of comedy legend Richard Pryor‘s career and life, including the horrifying 1980 incident when Pryor set himself on fire. Marlon Wayans ...

Four years before the infamous 1980 incident, Richard Pryor purchased the property. One night, he doused himself in rum and accidentally set him on fire while he was freebasing cocaine.

“Africa” (from Richard Pryor: Live at the Sunset Strip ... he covered his torso in rum and set himself on fire. It was a moment of reckoning for him but one in which he found wells of dark ...

Scarred Richard Pryor returns to film stand-up comedy show: Part 10 He returned to Hollywood to film "Live on the Sunset Strip." During a set, he even joked about the fire, making it seem like an ...

The post Richard Pryor’s Warner Albums to Be Reissued as 7xLP Box Set appeared first on Consequence. Six of Richard Pryor’s comedy albums from 1974 to 1983 have been compiled into a 7xLP box ...

Stand-up legend Richard Pryor will always be considered a 1-of-1 talent in the world of comedy. As brilliant as he was blunt, his immortal jokes live on in an archive of comedy albums throughout ...

Groundbreaking black US comedian Richard Pryor has died after almost 20 years with ... In 1980, he suffered serious burns over about half his body when he set himself on fire while freebasing cocaine ...

By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer “This is a perfect time for Richard Pryor ... to an ambitious new box set from Rhino, bringing together seven of Pryor’s seminal comedy albums from ...

Scott Saul, who authored the 2014 book “Becoming Richard Pryor,” wrote the liner notes of the box set. Winning five Grammys and an Emmy during his lifetime as a comedian and actor, Pryor’s ...