Richard Pryor journeys from his childhood in a family that worked in whore-houses and bars, through to his years in Hollywood-the money, the women, the drugs-and the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
Pryor takes us from his birth in Peoria, IL, in 1940 to his ascendance as the most powerful and honest comedian of the 1970s & early 1980s, to his years as a cultural icon.