W. Kamau Bell Fights Hate
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Stand-up comedian W. Kamau Bell has been hosting ‘United Shades of America’ on CNN since before Donald Trump was elected. Now in its fourth season, the show gives Bell a chance to talk to people from every corner of the country about issues like guns, race and religion. He tells us how he learned to listen to people on the opposite end of the political spectrum, why he would never go on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, why he doesn’t mind performing for “woke” college students and a lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | These white people are the redneck revolt. Now, they aren't a bunch of rednecks revolting against equality like I first thought. |
| 0:06.2 | They're actually rednecks revolting against the rednecks who are revolting against equality. I'll explain. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome to The Last Laugh. My name's Matt Wilstein and I'm a senior writer at The Daily Beast. |
| 0:22.2 | This week on the show, |
| 0:26.3 | a comedian I've had the pleasure of interviewing a bunch of times in the past and was super excited to get in our LA studio, W. Kamau Bell. Kamau came down here from Berkeley to talk about, among |
| 0:32.5 | other things, the fourth season of his show, United Shades of America, which is currently airing on CNN. |
| 0:42.7 | He told me what it's like to travel to all corners of the U.S. with Trump as president and shared his thoughts about the continued lack of diversity in late-night TV, six years after his previous |
| 0:47.4 | show, totally biased, was canceled. I can't wait to share our lively conversation with you, |
| 0:52.4 | so let's get right to it. This is the last laugh with today's guest, W. Kamau Bell. |
| 0:58.8 | Kamau, thank you for making the trip down from the Bay Area. |
| 1:03.7 | Well, thank you for letting me bully you into putting me on your podcast. |
| 1:06.4 | Yeah, I think you're probably the first and only comic to reach out to me directly on Twitter requesting to be a guest. |
| 1:13.4 | So, uh, so thank you for that. |
| 1:15.1 | Really? |
| 1:15.6 | That makes you feel like people aren't doing their jobs. |
| 1:17.9 | Yeah, me too. |
| 1:19.5 | Comics, not wanting attention? |
| 1:21.1 | Comics not wanting to talk on podcasts? |
| 1:22.9 | Isn't that what we do? |
| 1:23.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.5 | So yeah, United Shades of America is back back on uh on cnn for season four i can't really |
| 1:29.8 | believe it's it's season four already can you i mean i i can feel every episode in my bones so i do |
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