217 - W Kamau Bell (Live at Just For Laughs Montreal)

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Comedy powerhouse Kamau finds time in-between podcasting, writing, and hosting the Emmy Award nominated "United Shades of America"on CNN, to produce deliriously funny sociopolitical standup. We talk about swerving the obvious joke, the balance of vulnerability and power, and find out why even Chris Rock said Kamau talks too much about racism...

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0:00.0	Are there any words more guaranteed to strike terror into people's hearts than climate comedy?
0:04.6	Well, I thought so, and then I took my show Spoilers to the Edinburgh Festival and everyone bloody loved it,
0:09.7	including Brian Eno, if you can believe that. You can see it at the Soho Theatre from the 29th of
0:14.6	November for four nights get your tickets at Stuart goalsmith.com.
0:18.0	This is a podcast's comedian podcast. This is the Comedians, Comedian Podcast.
0:35.0	Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith and I record this on the, in the final final day the final two days of the Edinburgh
0:44.8	Fringe Festival 2017 in which I am broken my voice is cracked and my my spirit
0:52.0	however remains very strong after an excellent festival.
0:55.0	More on that later. For now though, this is an episode recorded.
0:59.0	I mean, it seems like a lifetime ago, but it was only a month at the Montreal Just for Loves Comedy Festival
1:04.6	at which I had a wonderful time and thank you very much to Zoe Rabinet and everyone who
1:09.3	brought me out there and everyone who made it so much fun and made this recording so much fun as I bring you this episode live from that
1:17.4	festival with none other than an exceptional comedian a political comedian someone really invigorating to talk to very very funny and
1:26.3	I think you're really going to enjoy this conversation with W. Kamal Bell. Bell. I'm absolutely thrilled with today's guest, so I would like to ask you to welcome, please,
1:40.1	with wild enthusiasm, double Emmy-nominated comedian host, presenter, podcaster, and double comedian.
1:48.0	Give it up on recording.
2:00.0	Oh, yeah, why would you say that when it was sounding like a forum. I mean it's a room that holds
2:06.3	18,000 people and there's 9,000 people here. Yeah, okay, so I see it's a relatively speaking. I've only
2:11.6	just, we've only just properly met.
2:13.7	I saw your show the other night and was struck by not only how tall you are,
2:18.1	but how well you fit this enormous chair in which I'm sat like a little kind of
2:22.3	leprokorn scamp and it actually suits you in a kind of game of
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