Richard Pryor dead at 65

As a kid growing up in the eighties, Richard Pryor made an enormous and lasting impression on me. For a man who joked about having lit himself on fire in an ill-fated suicide attemp while freebasing coke, Pryor was funny, serious, tragic, and always edging toward the insane. Listen to the man himself, courtosy of stereogum: Richard Pryor outakes (mp3) ...good times.