Day: August 27, 2019

The legendary late Richard Pryor had a longtime friendship and working relationship with Paul Mooney. Yesterday, ComedyHype posted a video interview with Pryor’s old bodyguard, in which he alleged that Pryor and Mooney had a falling out in the 1980s when Pryor learned that Mooney had “violated” Pryor’s son. The bodyguard, Rashon Kahn, claimed explicitly that Mooney had sex with Pryor’s son. Other details aren’t quite clear. Kahn cites arguments during filming of the semi-autobiographical Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling, which came out in 1986, co-written by Mooney and directed by Pryor. Kahn also claims Pryor was...