W. Kamau Bell at the Stress Factory

W. Kamau Bell is a socio-political comics, and a founding member of the comedy group Laughter Against the Machine.

Praised by Punchline Magazine as “one of our nation’s most adept racial commentators with a blistering wit,” he has been voted SF’s best comedian by the SF Weekly, the SF Bay Guardian, and 7×7 Magazine. His recent stand up album, Face Full of Flour, was named one of the Top 10 Best Comedy Albums of 2010 by iTunes and Punchline Magazine.

He is best-known for his critically acclaimed solo show "The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour," which was a Time Out NY critic’s pick in the 2010 NY Comedy Festival and a comedy pick in The Guardian during his 2011 run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.