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Chewin' It with Kevin ad Steve

W. Kamau Bell

Chewin' It with Kevin ad Steve

Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme

Improv, Comedy

4.9749 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2016

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

W. Kamau Bell (United Shades of America, Totally Biased) joins Kevin & Steve. They talk about Kamau's awesome new show United Shades of America, working with CNN, meeting the KKK, mixing comedy & poignancy, dick jokes, Kamau's & Lemme's academic accomplishments, getting back to Stand Up, Denzel's comic chops, Black Skittles and MORE. ENJOY THE CHEW!

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up? What's up? What's up?

0:03.3

Hey, who guess who's in the intro this week?

0:05.5

Who?

0:06.0

Steve Lemmy.

0:06.7

Hi. Hey, what's up? How you know?

0:08.3

So do you do a bunch of intros without me?

0:09.9

I often do intros without you.

0:11.2

What? I have to.

0:12.2

Why don't you invite me?

0:13.4

It's not your contract. Like, you're one. It's hard to get you to do them. Yeah. Yeah. It's hard to get you to do them. You just come for the high profile stuff. That's right. Like this week's interview. I'm like Jack Nicholson. And the fact that we had such a great guest this week is why you're in the intro. That's the only reason. Because you're here. That's the only reason. Yeah. Uh, joining us on the podcast this week is W. Kamal Bell and he's a comic and he's got a great show on CNN called United

0:39.2

Shades of America which air Sunday nights at 10 p.m. and a guy we didn't know but we had a great

0:45.4

conversation with him. He also has a stand-up special on Showtime called semi-pominent Negro. That's right.

0:50.1

Which is running which is also hilarious. Yeah so go to Showtime on demand and get semi-prominent Negro W. Kamal Bell.

0:56.7

Great stand-of-special.

0:57.5

Yeah, I think you're in for a tree.

0:58.7

It's a really good episode.

0:59.8

And you should definitely check out the CNN show because it's fantastic.

1:03.1

And you know what?

1:03.4

If you want a little frame of reference for some of our conversation, you might not watch it anyway.

1:07.4

The opening episode is a great pilot episode. He goes and visits members of the KKK, and it's just great stuff.

1:13.1

You'll like it if you watch it and listen to the podcast.

1:15.7

Yeah, and you'll like it if you're a thoughtful person who likes to tackle real issues,

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