Hall told the crowd at The Comedy Store that the two were hanging out at the historic club after hours when Pryor handed him a “rock” and a $100 bill.
Performing at The Comedy Store was sentimental for other reasons, too, as Hall, 67, explained he’d been cracking jokes there for over two decades.
After the wildly successful “Arsenio Hall Show” went off the air in 1994 after five years, the namesake star stepped out of the spotlight, leading many toHall said he and Pryor were hanging out when the latter handed the former a “rock” and a $100 bill.As the comedians snorted the illicit white powder, an oblivious Stevie Wonder played the piano nearby.“I went on the internet, and read I was in detox at Betty Ford,” Hall said publicly a few years later.
He ended up taking more time off from showbiz to raise his son, Arsenio Hall Jr., who was born in 1999. The stand-up comic revived “The Arsenio Hall Show” in 2013, but it was canceled after its first season.Hall joked that Wonder, who is blind, likely thought they were battling “allergies.”©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
In 1980, the “Superman III” star infamously suffered second- and third-degree burns on more than half his body after igniting an explosion while freebasing cocaine. claimed at the time that the incident happened as a result of a bout of drug-induced psychosis.
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