ScribdChat w/ Comedian & TV Host W. Kamau Bell | SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Please join for a special ScribdChat with sociopolitical comedian, television personality, and author, W. Kamau Bell.

Bell is the host and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning CNN docu-series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell. His stand-up comedy special, Private School Negro, debuted on Netflix in June 2018.

ScribdChat w/ Comedian & TV Host W. Kamau Bell
Wednesday, September 12, 2018 | 9 am to 11 am
Scribd HQ, 333 Bush St, San Francisco
FREE but an RSVP is required

Schedule: 

• 8:45-9:30 am: Doors open – Networking with breakfast bites and coffee
• 9:30-10:30 am: #ScribdChat with W. Kamau Bell
• 10:30-11:00 am: Book signing, networking, and departure

About W. Kamau Bell

Bell is the author of 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.

The book offers a humorous, well-informed take on the world today, tackling a wide range of issues, such as race relations; fatherhood; the state of law enforcement today; comedians and superheroes; right-wing politics; left-wing politics; failure; his interracial marriage; white men; his upbringing by very strong-willed, race-conscious, yet ideologically opposite parents; his early days struggling to find his comedic voice, then his later days struggling to find his comedic voice; why he never seemed to fit in with the Black comedy scene… or the white comedy scene; how he was a Black nerd way before that became a thing; how it took his wife and an East Bay lesbian to teach him that racism and sexism often walk hand in hand; and much, much more.

Kamau has been nominated for multiple NAACP Image Awards and a GLAAD award, and he was featured on Conde Nast’s ‘Daring 25’ list for 2016. The SF Weekly called Kamau “smart, stylish, and very much in the mold of politically outspoken comedians like Dave Chappelle,” though he was mostly just excited that they called him “handsome.” The New Yorker said, “Bell’s gimmick is intersectional progressivism: he treats racial, gay, and women’s issues as inseparable.”

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