W. Kamau Bell on Anthony Bourdain's 'I Pinch Myself' Moment From First Posthumous Episode
In the first new Parts Unknown episode to air since Anthony Bourdains death, he tells his fellow CNN host, I cannot f---ing believe that I get to do this.
'Anthony Bourdain and W. Kamau Bell are sipping gin and tonics on a hillside in Kenya at dusk. Theyve just finished a day-long safari and are taking in the gorgeous landscape.
What a shithole, Bourdain says sarcastically, with a laugh, alluding to President Donald Trumps offensive comments about African immigrants. Moments later, things turn more personal.
The idea that Im sitting here with you, doing this now, knowing where my life and career have come, its pretty cool, Bell, whose CNN series United Shades of America was directly inspired by Bourdains, tells the host. He asks himself, Whose life is this?
Bourdain, who had been traveling the world doing this type of show for 17 years, tells Bell that as soon as the cameras turn off, when he and his crew are sitting around having a cocktail, I pinch myself.
I cannot fucking believe that I get to do this, Bourdain continues. Or see this, ever. Or that I ever would, because 44 years ago, dunking fries, I knew, with absolute certainty, that I would never, ever see Rome, much less this.
Three months later, he was gone.
That scene in Kenya comes toward the end of the first new Parts Unknown episode to air on CNN following Bourdains suicide. But, as Bell tells me by phone this week, he never thought their semi-private moment would be seen by the rest of the world.'>>>
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