W. Kamau Bell

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632 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 14 Jul

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Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers · W. KAMAU BELL Took His Mom Parasailing · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

And so she dropped out, so she never finished her degree, but nobody would know that or expect that about her.

Gotcha.

Actually, it was like deeper than that.

She was the editor of textbooks.

She was an English textbook editor.

And she made it her job to diversify the stories in English textbooks.

Again, this is the late 70s.

We got to Boston the same year Larry Bird did.

So you're welcome, Boston.

But yeah, so she was like in the late 70s and early 80s, like diversifying the stories in English textbooks.

Gotcha.

Yeah.

And why aren't you saying it every 10 minutes?

Like, why aren't you like Matt, David and Ben Affleck do a good job of like saying Boston.

Yeah.

And we'll do the accent every eighth movie.

We'll do the accent.

Yeah, so I went to UPenn for about a year and a half, then dropped out of UPenn and went to Columbia College in Chicago, which is like a media arts school.

And that's where I slowly found my way to comedy.

Having a mother helps.

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