 After his 1990 comedy special "Wicker Chairs and Gravity", Wright continued to do stand-up performances, but he was largely absent from television, doing only occasional guest spots on late-night talk shows.In 1999 he wrote and directed the 30-minute short "One Soldier" saying it's "about a soldier who was in the Civil War, right after the war, with all these existentialist thoughts and wondering if there is a God and all that stuff.