W. Kamau Bell Curve at La Pena July 30, 31 and Aug 1!

Kamau' SF Weekly cover May 09!

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July 30th, 31st and August 1st, 2009 Third Root Presents “The W Kamau Bell Curve” at La Pena Cultural Center in Berkeley!

The W. Kamau Bell Curve is NOT your typical stand up comedy!! Dont be fooled!

BUY TICKETS HERE! (yes you can purchase a ticket in advance, and bring your person of a different race to get in!)
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JUST LIKE SKINNY JEANS, superhero movies, and frozen yogurt, racism continues to make a comeback. In 2007, The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About An Hour opened big and came out swinging against big targets. Back in 2007, it was celebrity racism that was all the rage. (Imus, Kramer, Rosie O’Donnell, Dog The Bounty Hunter, etc…) But two short years later, America has amazingly elected the first black president… of the Republican National Committee — Michael Steele. Oh, and also we elected, as president of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama. All this MUST mean racism is over. We’re officially in Post-Racial America… Right?… Right?

WRONG! Because now that a black man — or a half black/half white man if we want to split not so nappy hairs — is leading the free world, the stakes just have gotten higher. Racial injustice has become more insidious (thanks to Rush Limbaugh, the continued broadcast of BET, black and Latino people being blamed for the passage of Prop 8, Teabaggers marching in lock step with white supremacists, and most of the comments on Kamau’s YouTube page). That’s right. Racism has redoubled — no, re-quadrupled — its efforts. Well, W. Kamau Bell is here to make (non)sense of all of it all. And because racism is always attacking in new ways and from new angles, Kamau attacks back by adding new material at every performance. The Curve is a seamless mix of stand- up comedy, video and audio clips, and solo theatrical performance.

The W. Kamau Bell Curve is inspired by the work of several different comedians: the passionate, agenda driven comedy of Bill Hicks, the free flowing, “talking shows” of Henry Rollins, the soul baring honesty of Margaret Cho’s “I’m The One That I Want,” the take no prisoners and leave no stone unturned style of Dave Chappelle, and the ripped-from-the-headlines relevance of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

And as always…

BRING A FRIEND OF A DIFFERENT RACE & GET IN 2FOR1!

The W. Kamau Bell Curve has played to sold out houses all over San Francisco, Oakland, and has also played The Jewish Community Center East Bay in Berkeley. And this summer will appear at The La Pena Cultural Center and The New York International Fringe Festival.
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Read his great article in that came out in the SF Weekly on May 13, 2009! or watch this video of Kamau on KQED’s Spark!