W. Kamau Bell

Now, some people would say, well, you would have gotten another chance somewhere else. But that's not true. Maybe, maybe not. Yeah, yeah. Especially as a black, like these are black women who worked around him who were like, I wouldn't have done this.

And even one of my favorite parts of the doc is Lily Bernard, who's one of the survivors, talks about how great the set was because it was filled with black people. Yeah. And so that, and that's somebody who's like a survivor of having a horrible thing happen to her from him. And she's still able to go, the set was amazing. Yeah.

And even one of my favorite parts of the doc is Lily Bernard, who's one of the survivors, talks about how great the set was because it was filled with black people. Yeah. And so that, and that's somebody who's like a survivor of having a horrible thing happen to her from him. And she's still able to go, the set was amazing. Yeah.

So I don't think, I don't think you can crush a legacy at the same time.

So I don't think, I don't think you can crush a legacy at the same time.

all of this tv stuff is temporary all this pop culture stuff is temporary so that you know as much as we go like the like it's like i i you don't i mean whenever people talk about like making their special and standing the test of time i'm like i love comedy i haven't watched prior or carlin exactly yeah in 30 years well to me it's like when i you may be a similar age i grew up i remember where i grew up and they were still i love lucy reruns on absolutely now you you have to go find them you have to go buy them you know what i mean so like

all of this tv stuff is temporary all this pop culture stuff is temporary so that you know as much as we go like the like it's like i i you don't i mean whenever people talk about like making their special and standing the test of time i'm like i love comedy i haven't watched prior or carlin exactly yeah in 30 years well to me it's like when i you may be a similar age i grew up i remember where i grew up and they were still i love lucy reruns on absolutely now you you have to go find them you have to go buy them you know what i mean so like

And that was as big in its way as the Cosby show. It sort of changed television. Yeah. And had a woman as the lead. And Desi Arnaz. And they're an interracial marriage. And so there's all this stuff. Yeah.

And that was as big in its way as the Cosby show. It sort of changed television. Yeah. And had a woman as the lead. And Desi Arnaz. And they're an interracial marriage. And so there's all this stuff. Yeah.

Somehow. Despite the best efforts of Desi's. Yeah.

Somehow. Despite the best efforts of Desi's. Yeah.

yeah yeah uh but yeah so like all this pop culture stuff is in some level gonna at some point re like people like they don't show reruns of cosmos anymore first of all reruns are not even a thing that we really do a lot anymore anyway in the society but second of all eventually you stop showing reruns of everything you know yes gilligan's island was on everywhere when i was a kid yeah you couldn't even i couldn't explain it to my kids now you know what i mean so like

yeah yeah uh but yeah so like all this pop culture stuff is in some level gonna at some point re like people like they don't show reruns of cosmos anymore first of all reruns are not even a thing that we really do a lot anymore anyway in the society but second of all eventually you stop showing reruns of everything you know yes gilligan's island was on everywhere when i was a kid yeah you couldn't even i couldn't explain it to my kids now you know what i mean so like

It's too stupid. Yeah. If the professor can build.

It's too stupid. Yeah. If the professor can build.

I know. So I knew, I think one of the great things about being a comedian is that your imagination is often way more fertile than other people's, than regular people's.

I know. So I knew, I think one of the great things about being a comedian is that your imagination is often way more fertile than other people's, than regular people's.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was like, I always took a ghost dog approach. I'm going to imagine, I imagined the worst things I thought could happen to me. like, from this thing. And so, and all the, not the words, just all the different things I thought this could happen, this could happen. So by the time some of those things happened, I was like, oh, I knew that was it. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was like, I always took a ghost dog approach. I'm going to imagine, I imagined the worst things I thought could happen to me. like, from this thing. And so, and all the, not the words, just all the different things I thought this could happen, this could happen. So by the time some of those things happened, I was like, oh, I knew that was it. Yeah.

So, like, and also, they didn't firebomb my house. So, like, I had imagined that. But, like, I knew that, like, okay, somebody's going to come out with a thing that says we need to talk about Debbie Kamau Bell. That happened. That's a YouTube clip that YouTube suggested. You like Kamau Bell? And I was like, no. Good.