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"W. Kamau Bell"

SmartLess

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What's That Moment That Driven You to Stand Up?

When i started donstad up, i was just trying to be funny. I really did not have any intention of being some sort of, like, cultural social, whatever this voice is. But i was raised by a black lady with opinions, and so deep inside of me is it it is that if somebody's wrong, you're supposed to say something. And then, as a young comedian, i was introduced to bill hicks when bill hicks was still like a folk tale. It was just like somebody like handing me a tape of, like, listening to this at was like, oh, that's, that's what i want to do. That doesn't seem eather than...

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