Top 5 Denzel Washington Performances with W. Kamau Bell (Archive)
Filmspotting
Adam Kempenaar & Josh Larsen
4.6 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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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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