American - Comedian | January 26, 1973 -
Most people have the ability to turn their empathy engine back on, but there's such a seductive burn to not being empathetic.
W. Kamau Bell
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I keep trying to write the crowd-pleasing slavery joke and the crowd-pleasing reparations joke, but any time you mention slavery or reparations in any detail, it seems to bum lots of people out. That's a challenge I keep putting in front of myself.
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When I was starting out, I was just bringing a garbage bag of jokes onstage, pulling them out like, 'What about this? No? Alright.' I was just trying to be funny about anything.
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The jokes I was always attracted to, and that I would tell for the longest, were jokes where I cared about the subject. Whenever I wrote a joke where I didn't care, even if it was really funny, the third time I told it, it would lose steam.
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When 'Totally Biased' was canceled, I thought my career was over - but apparently it wasn't.
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I've always been a fan of these travel shows and documentary series.
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Throughout my career and my life, I talk a lot about racism in this country, and if you're going to talk about it, then you're going to eventually come to the chapter about the Klan.
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I just want to make TV that I want to see.
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If I have any talent, I think I have an ability to listen to people and also just meet them on their level.
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This is a country that was founded on racism. It was built on racism. It still continues to thrive through wealth disparity, and housing disparity is all built on the backs of racism.
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My agenda... is to learn about people.
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You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.
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