food, alcohol, and drugs. >> when you have that kind of brain, and i don't want to get into that stuff, except that you're wired dark. you can go dark real fast. >> dad couldn't take it anymore. and he wanted it to stop. he just was like, i want it to stop. >> richard pryor, the comedian and writer, was badly burned in an accident at his home in california last night. the burns cover the upper half of his body. they are severe enough to endanger his life.