Richard Pryor Was Reinventing Himself During the Writing Process
Pryor, meanwhile, was in the midst of a career rediscovery. He was taking large amounts of cocaine after abandoning a middle-of-the-road act often compared to Bill Cosby’s in favor of new, blunt, sometimes surreal routines that didn’t hide from his roots, and took inspiration from the Black Panthers and far-left figures in Berkeley, where he had recently lived.
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