@ Kennedy Center
Thursday February 13, 2025
08:00 PM - 10:00 pm
Comedian and filmmaker W. 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?
About W. Kamau Bell
W. Kamau 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 docuseries We Need to Talk About Cosby. He is the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling book Do the Work: An Antiracist Activity Book and 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. In March of 2025, Bell will have a chapter in bestselling author Michael Lewis’ new book Who is Government? It is based on Bell’s Washington Post article and short documentary The Rookie. Bell’s last comedy special, Private School Negro, is available on Netflix. 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. Bell 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 cofounded Who Knows Best Productions, a media production company based in Oakland, CA. He cares too much and sleeps too little.
Thursday February 13, 2025
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
All Ages
Cover: $35.00
Various Cover: $35.00 – $65.00