Kai Wright

He goes on this truly profane riff about sex.

And then, like, the last 25, 30 seconds of this is what I want you to pay attention to, but hear it all.

And yes, dear listener, this is the clip with the discriminatory language and content.

So be ready.

All right, so here's Richard Pryor, 1971.

So nothing matter but when you get in the nut, especially if it's a girl.

So, man, this is 1971 that he does this joke.

When I heard this for the first time, obviously not in 1971, many years later, I heard this album, but I was a teenager and it was the first time in my life I had ever heard a man, certainly a black man, talk matter-of-factly about having sex with another man.

And he uses, you know, this language and this framework, but he's like saying, you know, we all do it.

Why do y'all act like you don't do it?

And it just blew my mind.

Like I have an emotional memory of hearing it, you know, and being like, what?

That's right.

That's like, oh, you know, you told the truth.

You know, we all know, like, we're all a little gay.

You know?

But that's the kind of truth telling we're talking about.

And, you know, he goes on telling these kind of jokes about his bisexuality throughout his life.

And so a couple of things about this.

Like, one, it's a success.