W. Kamau Bell Wonders How Much Is Enough

Death, Sex & Money

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Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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After his television show Totally Biased was cancelled, comedian W. Kamau Bell is balancing the work of rebuilding his career, earning enough money and being a dependable family man. Support Death, Sex & Money by becoming a monthly sustaining member. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There was a part of me that at times during my life was a stand-up
0:02.5	where I felt like I think I might complete this whole career
0:06.0	and stay anonymous the whole time, which feels pretty bad.
0:08.6	This is death, sex, and money.
0:14.0	You don't have to kill me.
0:16.0	The show from WNC
0:18.0	about the things we think about a lot.
0:20.0	This is about you and me, and we're not good anymore.
0:22.0	And need to talk about more. This is about you and me, and we're not good anymore.
0:22.8	And need to talk about more.
0:24.8	I want that money, LeBaski.
0:27.2	I'm Anna Sale.
0:31.2	It took W. Kamal Bell a while to get his footing in the comedy world.
0:36.0	There was times I felt like I'm doing comedy, but I'm not really a comedian.
0:39.0	Like if people at parties asked me, what do you do?
0:41.0	I would not want to say comedian because I had no proof
0:43.4	it was possible to chop off the first half of my career and just to the second half
0:46.8	I'd feel great about it but I think the first half had to happen so I could get to the
0:49.7	second half and be like well I have wasted a lot of time here. His 20s came and went. It wasn't until he was in his
0:55.5	mid 30s when he was living in San Francisco that things finally started to take off.
1:00.4	As soon as I really focused in and honed in on like I want to talk
1:03.8	about race and racism I want to write a one-man show about it and I don't care if I
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