The movie begins with Jo Jo, a famous stand-up, in a hospital bed, wrapped in gauze, near death, unrecognizable ... “All I know is that I very badly want Richard Pryor to live.” ...

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Farther into adulthood, Notaro suffered pneumonia, an intestinal disease, her mother’s death, a girlfriend ... agrees with Mike Birbiglia that Richard Pryor (seen joking about his near-fatal ...

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Tell me about the new piece you’ll be performing, a section from “Scenes of Living and Dying ... between great stand-up comics like Richard Pryor and great actors. When people make this ...