W. Kamau Bell

Kamau Bell returns to the stand-up stage, full of questions, thoughts, and a heavy dollop of silliness in these hectic times. He’s pretty sure the only way we make it through all of this is if we face it together. So Bell wants to know: Who’s With Me?

Bell is a stand-up comedian, filmmaker, husband, and dad. For seven seasons, he was the host and executive producer of the five-time Emmy Award-winning CNN Original Series United Shades of America. In 2023, Bell won an Emmy for his HBO documentary 1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed. He also won a Peabody Award for his 2022 Showtime docu-series We Need to Talk About Cosby. His latest comedy special, Private School Negro, is available on Netflix. 

The comedian co-authored New York Times bestselling book Do the Work: An Antiracist Activity Book and wrote The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6′ 4″, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian. Bell’s work can also be found in Michael Lewis’ new book, Who is Government?, which was published in March of 2025 and includes a chapter by Bell. The chapter is based on Bell’s Washington Post article and short documentary, The Rookie. 

Bell is on the board of directors for DonorsChoose, a nonprofit that helps teachers raise money for class projects, and Live Free, a nonprofit dedicated to ending gun violence, mass incarceration, and mass criminalization. He is also the ACLU’s Artist Ambassador for Racial Justice and hosts the ACLU podcast At Liberty. In 2023, Bell and his wife Melissa Hudson Bell co-founded Who Knows Best Productions, a media production company based in Oakland, CA. All in all, Bell cares too much and sleeps too little.