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Title: Richard Pryor - Bicentennial N*gger

Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1976 / Comedy / Stand-Up Comedy / Peoria, Illinois

Matrix #: BS 2960

Condition: VG+ (LM)

Cultural Facts:

1. Personal Struggle Pryor had already burned through his clean-TV persona by this point and rebuilt himself around raw material about race, addiction, and humiliation that many comics were too scared to touch.
2. Media Narrative Released during the U.S. bicentennial, the title itself was a provocation, using national self-congratulation as a setup for Pryor’s harsher view of American life.
3. Legal Trouble By the mid-70s Pryor’s offstage life was already turbulent, with drug use and arrests feeding the sense that his comedy was coming from real personal wreckage, not just stagecraft.

4/10/26 LM