Richard Pryor

Flowers and notes decorate Richard Pryor's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Dec. 10, 2005 in the Hollywood section Los Angeles, Calif. Pryor, 65, had died earlier in the day from a heart attack. He had been ill for years with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative disease of the nervous system.

Richard Pryor is shown as he performs in 1977.

Comedian Richard Pryor talks with newswoman Barbara Walters in an interview after he was badly burned in an accident in his home one month earlier in this July 24, 1980 photo in Sherman Oaks, Calif.

Gene Wilder, left, and Richard Pryor are shown in December 1980. The two successfully teamed up in such movie comedies as "Silver Streak" (1976), "Stir Crazy" (1980), "See No Evil, Hear No Evil" (1989) and "Another You" (1991).

In this file photo from CBS, Richard Pryor is shown in this Nov. 2, 1984, file photo on the set of his CBS children’s show, “Pryor’s Place.”

Comedians Richard Pryor, left, and Robin Williams share a laugh at the New York Friar's club Sept. 27, 1991.

Richard Pryor, left, high fives Whoopi Goldberg after Pryor received the 198th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles in this May 1993 file photo.

Comedian Richard Pryor, center, and former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, left, stand with Dick Gregory, right, after appearing on "Donahue" in New York Feb. 16, 1993.

Actor-comedian Chris Rock greets Richard Pryor at a special tribute to Pryor at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles Nov. 10, 1995. Pryor, the caustic and perceptive actor-comedian who lived dangerously close to the edge both on stage and off, died Dec. 10, 2005. He was 65. The person in the center is unidentified.

Richard Pryor waves to the audience after receiving the Hall of Fame award at the NAACP 27th Image Awards in an April 6, 1996 photo, in Pasadena, Calif.

Richard Pryor, center, the original "King of Comedy" who created the comedy concert tour, arrives at the premiere of Spike Lee's film, "The Original Kings of Comedy," with Kevin Mooney, right, and Jennifer Lee, left, in Hollywood Aug. 10, 2000. Pryor was awarded the MTV Films' Lifetime Achievement Award.

George Carlin, left, recipient that year of the Lifetime Achievement Award, greets Richard Pryor at the 15th Annual American Comedy Awards at Universal City in Los Angeles April 22, 2001.