W. Kamau Bell
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1,269 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 14 Oct
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Yeah, well, you're like, you're, again, you've done all the, like, you've done that work, you know?
And maybe not. And that's why I have nine jobs. That's why I have not put all my chips on stand-up comedy.
Der nächste Club, den ich spiele, ich spiele meistens im Theater, aber ich mache einen normalen Wochenende in einem Club in San Diego, dem Mic Drop Comedy Club. Ich weiß nicht, was das ist. Ja, nein, ich wusste es auch nicht. Aber ich dachte, das ist ein normaler Club mit einem Freitagabend-Second-Show und es ist 10 Uhr und es ist San Diego. Und es ist einfach so, ich werde etwas finden.
Du wirst die Stunde machen? Ich werde die Stunde machen. Vielleicht mache ich die 45 Minuten. Vielleicht, weißt du, vielleicht ist das, wenn ich einige der alten Sachen ausbreite. Ja,
So, I'm actually more nervous about that than I was at the Kennedy Center. Of course you are.
No, I think, you know, I came up in that world, but I think for me, I wouldn't have been able to build up, I wouldn't have been able to, if I was just going out and doing showcases, I couldn't build the hour. Yeah, because you can't do it in pieces. No, you can't sort of like, I know I'm lost here, but I gotta be lost to find out where I'm trying to get to, so, yeah.
Yeah, well, that's the great thing about having taken such a break is that I have a lot of stories that have happened in the last five years. So I don't feel like I'm like scraping the barrel. Yeah.
Genau, sie geht in die Hochschule. Die guten Dinge sind auf dem Weg. Ja, das wird alles passieren. Wer ist dieser Kerl? Ja, genau. I got to tell her when she was 12, she told me something that one of the boys in her class had done that was stupid. And I was like, hey, from the ages of 12 to 30, boys are just trash. And so you should just know that.
And then I told other people, other women were like, it's older than 30. I was like, yeah, I know, but I didn't want to bum her out. For always. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe they will always be trash. Yeah. But like...
Nein, nein, nein, sie glauben definitiv. Ich weiß von Leuten, die da waren, dass sie von den Leuten, die es runten, geholfen wurden, dass sie mehr christliche Aktien und mehr國家ische Aktien wollen. Richtig. Was lustig ist, weil es ist wie, ich weiß, es ist das Kennedy Center für dich, aber es ist wirklich nur ein Venue in D.C., No, of course. And D.C.
is not, you know, if you want to move the Kennedy Center to Branson, Missouri, you can do that. But D.C. is a place where there are more drag queens that are probably going to perform there in a year than country music acts. And not that they don't do country music.
It's often like, we're like, why are they saying you like that? I love you. It's very like, not just a girl. Nicht ein Mädchen überhaupt. Nicht ein Mädchen überhaupt. Es ist das große Du.
Das Thou-Du. Thou. Das heilige Thou. Aber ja, Rihanna und Giddens sind verabschiedet. Und ich verstehe es. Ich denke, ein Komiker ist in einer einzigen Position, in der man direkt zu dem, was los ist, sprechen kann. Wenn du ein Musiker bist, kannst du das, aber das ist nicht wirklich, was du tust.
Und besonders, wenn du ein Comic wie uns bist, kannst du literally sagen, ich werde nur sprechen und wir werden später zu den Lachen kommen. Und ich denke, dass ich in einer einzigen Position war, aber die Leute wollen dich auf der einen Seite oder der anderen stellen. Und ich sage, nein, ich bin alt genug, um zu erinnern und zu lernen, dass das Silberreich-Movie nicht war.
Manchmal war es um Boykotts und manchmal war es um Sit-Ins und manchmal war es um spontane Aktion. Es ist nicht nur eine Sache.
Well, I think one way, first of all, every time I see a group of white, old white people yelling at their congressmen... But that's the only ones who are left to do it.
Yeah, of course. Because they're the last ones to believe. They're the ones who always think the system's on their side, even though there's evidence to show them that the town is right. But they're also the ones that were at the old protests. And at the January 6th. But I think the fact that those people are so clearly angry this early about what's going on is a sign of like...
A sign that things could get better, but we need to invite those people in and not freeze them out. Are you talking about conservatives? Yeah, I'm talking about regular white folks.
No, no, no. They're going to show up. I went to that protest a couple weeks ago in Berkeley. It's great, but it's not the one that moves the needle. The one that moves the needle is these white, MAGA-hatted people who are older, who are like, you're fucking my Social Security up.
Well, I think everybody has a thing about, you're not talking about me. If you're saying something bad, you're not talking about me. And I think that's what it was. And now they realize, no, they were talking, he is coming after your, not coming after woke Social Security, he's coming after your Social Security.
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