Kai Wright

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819 appearances 18 recordings 7 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 6 Jul

Kai Wright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 18 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 13.

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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.

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

You know, but he walks out anyway.

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

Wait, what?

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