American - Comedian | January 26, 1973 -
As a comedian, you see all parts of the country because you play there.
W. Kamau Bell
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No comedian grows up thinking, 'I hope one day to have a show on CNN.'
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I like living in Berkeley, but I know Berkeley's not the world.
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People in Hollywood can condescend to the way a lot of other people are living.
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When things aren't going well for black people, they blame the government. When things aren't going well for white people, they can't blame the government because the government is supposed to be for them. So they blame black people.
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We should always be having a conversation about if we could make this country more inclusive and what we can do to do that.
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The country should be more inclusive, not less inclusive, and over an infinite timeline, it becomes more inclusive. It doesn't always happen at once.
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As much as some people like to put down 'political correctness,' if it wasn't for political correctness, I wouldn't be free right now.
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You can be as exclusive as you want to in your house, but once you walk outside your house, you have to realize that it's not your world anymore: it's all of our world.
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When I stand up in front of groups of people who agree with me, I know I have to really step my game up because I can't just sort of meet them where they're at; I have to take them somewhere else. They want you to challenge them and have good ideas.
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If I say 'political comedian,' then people think you're talking about you, the Senate and Congress, and what's going on in Washington D.C. If I say 'comedian,' people automatically assume that you're a comedian who talks about how his wife won't listen to him and that dummy down at the mechanic who wouldn't fix his car.
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If you're on TV regularly, doing a thing regularly, whether you're Anthony Anderson on 'Black-ish' or Don Lemon, an hour a night, you have to turn into, 'What's the delivery system through which I can deliver information?' I don't mean they are being fake or that they are doing something that's disingenuous.
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