On a serious note, Pryor was a changed man after that incident. I saw a special he put together about recovering and what it was like to be a burn patient. Baths shouldn't make you scream. And the people who cared for him - guess what? The color of their skin didn't matter. Neither did his - it was coming off. Harrowing and grimly funny stuff. I came to a whole new respect.
Happy New Year!
He was the black Mark Twain.