Walter Kamau Bell (born January 26, 1973), known professionally as W.
Kamau Bell, is an American stand-up comic and television host. He has
hosted the CNN series United Shades of America since 2016, and hosted
FXX television series Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell from 2012 to
2013. He is the host of the live radio show and podcast Kamau Right
Now on KALW, and also co-hosts the podcasts Denzel Washington Is The
Greatest Actor Of All Time Period with Kevin Avery and Politically
Re-Active with Hari Kondabolu.Bell was born in Palo Alto, California,
and grew up in Alabama, Boston and Chicago, the son of Walter Bell,
who served as Alabama's Insurance Commissioner and Chairman of Swiss
Re America Holding Corporation, and author Janet Cheatham Bell, who
founded a self-publishing firm. Between ages five and 12, Bell lived
in Boston, Massachusetts in the Mattapan neighborhood of the city.
Bell graduated from the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and
attended the University of Pennsylvania before dropping out. Later he
began to pursue a career in comedy.He is a first cousin once removed
of speculative fiction writer N. K. Jemisin.After establishing himself
as a sociopolitical comedian and community activist based in San
Francisco, Bell became a founding member of the comedy collective
Laughter Against the Machine and has been featured in a number of
prominent podcasts and publications, such as WTF with Marc Maron,
Citizen Radio, and Current TV's The War Room with Jennifer Granholm,
on which Bell was a regular correspondent.
Kamau Bell, is an American stand-up comic and television host. He has
hosted the CNN series United Shades of America since 2016, and hosted
FXX television series Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell from 2012 to
2013. He is the host of the live radio show and podcast Kamau Right
Now on KALW, and also co-hosts the podcasts Denzel Washington Is The
Greatest Actor Of All Time Period with Kevin Avery and Politically
Re-Active with Hari Kondabolu.Bell was born in Palo Alto, California,
and grew up in Alabama, Boston and Chicago, the son of Walter Bell,
who served as Alabama's Insurance Commissioner and Chairman of Swiss
Re America Holding Corporation, and author Janet Cheatham Bell, who
founded a self-publishing firm. Between ages five and 12, Bell lived
in Boston, Massachusetts in the Mattapan neighborhood of the city.
Bell graduated from the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and
attended the University of Pennsylvania before dropping out. Later he
began to pursue a career in comedy.He is a first cousin once removed
of speculative fiction writer N. K. Jemisin.After establishing himself
as a sociopolitical comedian and community activist based in San
Francisco, Bell became a founding member of the comedy collective
Laughter Against the Machine and has been featured in a number of
prominent podcasts and publications, such as WTF with Marc Maron,
Citizen Radio, and Current TV's The War Room with Jennifer Granholm,
on which Bell was a regular correspondent.
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