Kai Wright
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Podcast Appearances
You know, this is the new Bill Cosby.
But that is not going to hold for a man who grew up in a brothel.
No.
He gets on with white people.
And so Richard Pryor is trying to get on with white people.
So, it's 1967.
He's now become quite popular for doing this Bill Cosby kind of humor on The Ed Sullivan Show, no less.
And he's booked at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas.
And it's a big gig, right?
Sold out audience.
And he's standing backstage, you know, kind of weirdly reluctant to get on stage looking out at the audience.
Right.
And he's looking out at like a sea of white faces.
Yeah.
Like, it's just like a white, white, white audience.
And he's like, I don't know, what am I doing?
And he has what he describes that moment as epiphany, you know?
Like, I just, I don't want to do this.
I don't want to do this.
This is not what I want.