W. Kamau Bell

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2010

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

W. Kamau Bell is a San Francisco-based comedian who soaks up politics and pop culture and filters it through a racial lens, using his irreverent thoughts and critiques as fodder for his comedy. He recently ended a run of his critically-acclaimed one-man show, "The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour". His television appearances include performances on Comics Unleashed and Comedy Central, and he is a co-founder of The Solo Performance Workshop.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ken from Denver.
0:02.0	Hi, I'm Natalie from Boston, Massachusetts.
0:04.6	The Sound of Young America is an independent production supported by listeners like me.
0:08.6	If you'd like to donate to support the show, visit maximumfund.org and click on Donate.
0:13.9	I'm Jesse Thorne, live on tape from My House in Los Angeles.
0:17.2	It's the Sound of Young America from Maximumfund.org and PRI, Public Radio, International.
0:23.5	It's the Sound of Young America, I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:31.8	My guest W. Kamaubelle has been a friend of the show for many years.
0:35.4	He got his start in San Francisco when the Sound of Young America was getting it start in Santa
0:39.7	Cruz.
0:40.7	He's found his voice recently as a social and political critic.
0:44.4	Here's some comedy from his new CD, Face Full of Flower.
0:47.5	I mean, a little bit, time to admit, it's a little piece of me.
0:51.8	That's a little sad that McCain and Palin didn't win.
0:54.9	It's a little bit, it's a little bit, it's a little bit.
0:58.7	Anybody else?
1:00.3	No, come on, you weren't excited to move to Canada?
1:03.0	Nobody, it was my friend Jeremy went up and looked around.
1:07.2	He got me all excited, I was like, yeah, if they win, I'm out of here.
1:10.8	I was all thinking about Vancouver, just seems nice.
1:14.1	Then Barack went, I was like, oh, yeah, oh.
1:19.0	I was like 95% excited, like, oh, 5% Vancouver sounded nice.
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