The W. Kamau Bell Cuve May 8, 2008

One part diatribe, one part manifesto, and several parts funny.

The W. Kamau Bell Curve

RETURNS

Now with 37% more Barack Obama!

Bring a friend of a different race and get in two for one.

JUST LIKE LED ZEPPELIN, skinny jeans, and The Boston Celtics, racism has made a comeback in America. White people haven’t talked this badly about un-white people since Martin Luther King had that dream. And since The W. Kamau Bell Curve made a concerted effort to end racism (in about an hour) this past October, racism has redoubled its efforts. First the co-discoverer of DNA said that Europeans are smarter than Africans. Then Dog The Bounty Hunter tried to break Michael Richards record for rattling off the greatest number of ‘N’ words in the shortest period of time. Soon after that an unknown golf commentator told a good old-fashioned lynching joke about her friend Tiger Woods. And recently it’s become trendy to say, “I hate China!” Somehow in the middle of all this, America might elect its first black president… unless Fox News gets its way (See Fox’s coverage of Jeremiah Wright.) Well, W. Kamau Bell is mad as hell and he's not going smile politely anymore as his un-black friends say, "Sarah Silverman isn’t racist. She’s ironic."

This past fall The Curve performed to sold out houses at monthly performances in San Francisco and Berkeley. Now that "The Curve" is weekly it will be as fresh as the news it skewers. And as always bring a friend of a different race and your friend gets in for free.

FROM THE PRESS
"W. Kamau Bell plays against type and comes with not only the insights you wish you had spewed first but also the wit."
--- Kimberly Chun, The SF Bay Guardian

"Smart, stylish, and very much in the mold of politically outspoken comedians like Dave Chappelle and Margaret Cho.

Bell's pissed off about recent celebrity racism... He manages to make jokes out of the whole situation, while remaining completely furious."
-- Hiya Swanhuyser, The SF Weekly

"W. Kamau Bell Curve could be this nation’s first Truth and Reconciliation Hearing on Race."
-- Wanda Sabir, Wanda’s Picks.

ABOUT W. KAMAU BELL
W. Kamau Bell's television appearances include Comics Unleashed and Comedy Central. In 2005 he was chosen to appear at the prestigious Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, and was the only comedian invited to perform on both The New Faces Show and The Best of The Uptown Comics Show. As a writer he was featured in the book "What Would Bill Hicks Say?" Kamau can be heard on radio station Live 105 and online at Roof Top Comedy as half of the rant and rave team, "Siskel and Negro". He has been profiled in The San Francisco Chronicle on three different occasions, including not ironically during Black History Month. The SF Weekly called him, "smart, stylish, and very much in the mold of politically outspoken comedians like Dave Chappelle and Margaret Cho", although he was more excited that they called him "handsome".

TICKETS
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$20 - general admission
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