W. Kamau Bell

W. Kamau Bell performs at Vulture Festival Comedy Night in New York City in 2014.

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W. Kamau Bell performs at Vulture Festival Comedy Night in New York City in 2014.

Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for New York Magazine

Comic W. Kamau Bell has spent much of his life feeling awkward. A self-described “tall, rangy black dude,” Bell was often mistaken for a basketball player growing up — except that serious asthma and allergies meant he spent the bulk of his childhood indoors watching TV.

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