W. Kamau Bell Network Comedy Special Taping
Brooklyn, NY Wednesday, Dec. 2nd
W. Kamau Bell is a socio-political comedian who is the host of the upcoming CNN travel show, The United Shades of America. Currently, Kamau may be best known for his critically acclaimed, but criminally short-lived FX comedy series, Totally Biased. The New York Times called Kamau "the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years." and Chris Rock called Kamau, "One of the funniest guys out there." And Robin Williams called Kamau "ferociously funny". While Denzel Washington said "That brother that's always talking about me." Among the places Kamau has been seen or heard are Comedy Central's @midnight, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Conan, Meet The Press, WTF with Marc Maron, The Rachel Maddow Show, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Henry Louis Gates' Peabody Award Winning documentary Many Rivers To Cross, and This American Life. Kamau's writing has appeared on VanityFair.com, Salon.com, MSNBC.com, Buzzfeed, and The LA Review of Books.
Kamau is also proud to be the ACLU's Ambassador of Racial Justice. Although he's also pretty upset that they didn't give him a badge. These days Kamau might be most excited about his podcast with fellow comedian Kevin Avery entitled Denzel Washington is The Greatest Actor of All Time Period which Essence Magazine named "One of The Top Ten Podcasts Ever Black Woman Should Hear". The SF Weekly called Kamau "smart, stylish, and very much in the mold of politically outspoken comedians like Dave Chappelle," though he was more excited that they called him "handsome."