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Kai Wright

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

I don't want to go out on this stage.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

You know, but he walks out anyway.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

And before he tells a single joke, like the very first thing he does is blurts out, what the fuck am I doing here?

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

Wait, what?

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

And he's just like, why am I here?

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

You know, in the most profane way.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

So after he gets that out of his system, he goes on and tries to do the gig that he's signed up for.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

He starts telling these jokes, right?

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

And about midway through the set, he's just like, nah.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

And just walks off stage.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

I'm just going to go.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

And just walks off stage.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

And he's so petulant about it, he doesn't even walk off stage in the right direction.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

Like, he's like...

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

He deliberately walks off the stage in, like, the wrong direction, so it's, like, awkward to get off the stage.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

It's, like, a whole mess of a thing.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

And it's the disaster that you think, right?

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

Like, his agent's like, you'll never work again, and indeed, he, like, stops getting booked, you know?

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

He's pushed into the small clubs and college towns and stuff like that.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

Like, he's destroyed his career.