There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this, white people are like this - and it really is hard to break through that. I never was doing it that way.
When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and gre… - W. Kamau Bell
When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and gre…
- W. Kamau Bell
If I could email my jokes to the crowd and get the same immediate response [as during stand-up], I'd do that. - W. Kamau Bell
If I could email my jokes to the crowd and get the same immediate response [as during stand-up], I'd do that.
You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself. - W. Kamau Bell
You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.
A lot of comics claimed to be political comedians when George W. Bush was in office just by calling him an idiot. For me, Obama is actually more inte… - W. Kamau Bell
A lot of comics claimed to be political comedians when George W. Bush was in office just by calling him an idiot. For me, Obama is actually more inte…
I'm most biased about how white people have to learn to shut up when the conversation of racism comes up. White people have to learn to listen. Wheth… - W. Kamau Bell
I'm most biased about how white people have to learn to shut up when the conversation of racism comes up. White people have to learn to listen. Wheth…
I'm of the opinion that if you step on stage and you're not a straight white male, you're automatically making a political statement whether you know… - W. Kamau Bell
I'm of the opinion that if you step on stage and you're not a straight white male, you're automatically making a political statement whether you know…
I think the need to go on stage speaks to some sort of a profound psychological deficit, but something that happened when you were a kid. Or somethin… - W. Kamau Bell
I think the need to go on stage speaks to some sort of a profound psychological deficit, but something that happened when you were a kid. Or somethin…
Comedy is like expensive cheese. Well, it's like cheese, in general. Everybody likes what they like, and everything they don't like, they think is th… - W. Kamau Bell
Comedy is like expensive cheese. Well, it's like cheese, in general. Everybody likes what they like, and everything they don't like, they think is th…
Some things just strike me as funny. The way things play out just makes me laugh sometimes. It drives my wife crazy sometimes because I'll just be la… - W. Kamau Bell
Some things just strike me as funny. The way things play out just makes me laugh sometimes. It drives my wife crazy sometimes because I'll just be la…
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