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Top 5 Denzel Washington Performances with W. Kamau Bell (Archive)

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Adam Kempenaar & Josh Larsen

Film Reviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

With a review of the new Spike Lee/Denzel Washington collaboration HIGHEST 2 LOWEST coming Friday, we're sharing 2016's Top 5 Denzel Washington Performances with guest W. Kamau Bell ("United Shades of America", "We Need to Talk About Cosby", the "Denzel Washington Is The Greatest Actor of All Time Period" podcast). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What kind of a show are you guys putting on here today?

0:06.5

You're not interested in art?

0:07.6

No.

0:08.1

Now look, we're going to do this thing.

0:09.4

We're going to have a conversation.

0:12.7

Hey, film spotters.

0:14.1

We have another archive drop in your feed with our conversation, a long conversation, I think a fun conversation about

0:22.8

Spike Lee and Denzel Washington's fifth collaboration as director and actor,

0:29.6

highest to lowest coming this Friday.

0:32.4

We wanted to put our top five Denzel Washington performances back in your feed. This is from 2017. We had

0:40.3

W. Kamau Bell on the show among the many things that he does, Josh. He had a CNN show.

0:50.1

Emmy nominated the United Shades of America. He directed the Peabody award-winning documentary.

0:56.1

We need to talk about Cosby.

0:58.3

And he had a podcast that ran irregularly between 2015 and 2019 that was appropriately, for our purposes, called Denzel Washington is the greatest actor of all time period.

1:10.5

Great show, great guest.

1:12.0

And looking back at my list, Adam, I'll just say my number one pick, my own eyebrow

1:18.4

raised.

1:19.6

So I'll have to give that a fresh listen and see if I convince myself.

1:23.0

Sometimes that happens here on the show.

1:25.7

So hopefully listeners will enjoy a fresh year or maybe listening to, again, our top five Denzel, Washington performances.

1:36.6

That's from May 2017.

1:38.9

And if you want access, regular access, whenever you want, you want to dip into the archive and hear shows like this. That is a benefit of being a film spotting family member, and you can learn more at FilmspottingFamily.com. Enjoy. Mr. W. Kamau Bell. Many of you may know Bell for his politically charged stand-up. His new comedy album, Semi-Prominant Negro, was just released this week. He's also the host of CNN's United Shades of America, which just got picked up for a second season.

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