'Totally Biased' review: W. Kamau Bell does late night

Therein lies opportunity. Therein also lies a challenge. How's a black late-night host with a left-of-center sensibility supposed to be all that different from someone like Jon Stewart? They dip from the same bottomless well of material -- political gaffes, the economy, the Kardashians -- and, while a "Totally Biased" test-run screener indicated that race (and racism) are a part of Bell's act, they're not the whole act.

Material pops up on a video screen behind him that turns into a comic PowerPoint presentation, ripping the usual targets, like Donald Trump, Pat Buchanan, Mitt Romney and the early GOP field. But unlike Bell's foul-mouthed Yoda, there's not a whole lot of bite to the delivery. It's genial and unhurried. "Am I totally biased?" he cheerfully asks a small studio audience. "Yes, I am!" Bell seems totally nice, too.

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