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Comedy to end racism in an hour.(SPOTLIGHT: KAMAU BELL)
BY THE TIME COMEDIAN KAMAU BELL made it to the Samuel L. Jackson bit in his one-man act, The W. Kamau Bell Curve Show: Ending Racism In About An Hour, he had already managed to touch on Prop. 8, the dearth of men of color on People magazine's Sexiest Men Alive list and, of course, Barack Obama. And then Bell explained the particular tension of needing to be on his best behavior when he is the only Black man in a room full of white folks. He compared it to acting like Cuba Gooding Jr. ("not full-on Snow Dogs though") before multiple slights make him feel more like Samuel L. Jackson, mouth set and shoulders clenched.
For the people of color in the audience, the laughs came from knowing recognition. If the whites in the room felt a little uncomfortable, Bell says that is exactly his intention. "Sometimes I don't want it couched in a joke," he says. "I ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Comedy to end racism in an hour.(SPOTLIGHT: KAMAU BELL)