Kai Wright
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Right.
You know?
But...
It's in this moment, as a consequence, that he starts to rethink that career.
And he leaves New York and he moves to the Bay Area.
Now, this is, you know, this is the 60s, right?
And he starts getting involved in the sort of Bay Area counterculture.
He starts getting involved with the Black Power movement, right, that grows up out of Oakland.
And that starts to change his understanding of, like, the world and his place in it and what he could do.
And he starts to think about comedy that is more...
raw and honest, right?
And so he begins this process and he says, like he says later, like that he realized comedy, real comedy, wasn't just telling jokes.
It was about telling the truth.
And just to sort of give you an example of where this kind of comedy goes.
So he starts making albums.
1971, his second album, it's called Craps, right?
Like after the dice game.
And it's a wildly profane album.
And I want to play you, like, one of the jokes.
Okay.