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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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