Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

What I found interesting about this film is that it was considered as a sort of return (because of an accident), more notably seen at the latter part of the film. This film has influenced many others such as Kevin Hart's "Laugh at my Pain" (which is about how Kevin's mother passed away from cancer, among many other touchy subjects). I believe that comedians in general try to make anything seen as serious or depressing, amusing. This comic relief is seen in stand up comedy and in actual life.

Now to go back to the talk of returning, I believe that most people do what Pryor did. For example, I'm pretty sure when Pryor burned him self, he did not think it was amusing at all. The more time that goes by, the easier it became for him to realize that he could joke around about it and not have as much pain. This goes exactly with the saying, "Time heals all wounds". This also happened to me. Nearly died in an asthma attack a few years ago. It was not funny then, but now that I look back, I look at my irresponsibility and just make a joke or two about it. Why did I do this? Was it still hurting me deep down inside? Or was I really over the fact that I almost died? Tough to answer, and I believe that Pryor asked himself similar questions as he wrote the lines for his show.