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Laughter Against The Machine Tour: Day 1… Sorta.
Thursday, September 15th, 2011Here’s what I’m up to the next little bit.
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
I just figured I would put it into one post because I’m starting to confuse myself so here goes…
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Sept 6 San Francisco, CA Stage Werx Theatre – Me & Boots Riley in Conversation – A Benefit for Laughter Against The Machine
Laughter Against The Machine’s Tour & Documentary
Sept 10 Phoenix, AZ Space 55 BUY TICKETS
Sept 14 Chicago, IL Greenhouse Theater BUY TICKETS
Sept 16 Dearborn, MI Henry Ford / Adray Auditorium BUY TICKETS
Sept 17 Madison, WI Bartell Theatre BUY TICKETS
Nov 9-10 Washington, DC DC Arts Center BUY TICKETS
Nov 11-12 New Orleans, LA La Nuit Comedy Theater BUY TICKETS
Nov 14-15 Oakland, CA New Parish Theater BUY TICKETS
And we only have days left to raise the money we need to make the documentary about all this nuttiness! Can we borrow 5 bucks to make it happen? Thanks!
Margaret Cho & Hal Sparks make appeals for Laughter Against The Machine!
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011While I was in Edinburgh I got my friends Margaret Cho (1st video) & Hal Sparks (2nd video) to make appeals to their peoples and beyond about Laughter Against The Machine’s Kickstarter campaign. Watch ‘em. Enjoy ‘em. Spread ‘em around ‘em!
Latest KKK Blog – Stars Over Edinburgh
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has made me obsessed with stars. Not the famous kind. Although there are famous stars as part of the festival, Margaret Cho, Henry Rollins, Michael “That Dude From The Police Academy Movies Who Makes Crazy Sounds With His Mouth” Winslow, Al Murray The Pub Landlord. (He’s super famous here.) I also don’t mean the stars in the night time sky. Especially since it doesn’t get dark until after 9pm … which is awesome.
I’m talking the kind of stars reviewers give to shows. One thing I’ve learned in my first week at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is that it’s all about stars! Preferably lots and lots of them, like a hotel in Dubai.
So many posters here — I’ve never seen so many posters in all my life — are littered with stars proving each show is the most awesomest of any show. I came up to the Fringe with no poster stars at all. All I had was a quote from some regional American publication. And my quote withers next to these…
Interview with The Scotsman
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Seriously Kamau?
I did an interview with The Scotsman’s Chitra Ramaswamy. It is one of the most fun interviews I’ve had in a long time. And it features one of my favorite quotes I’ve ever said.
I think I like this interview so much because she took everything I said and then re-calibrated it make it more British-y, which makes me sound more intelligent to me… because I’m a self-hating American.
Posted by my friends at Afro-Punk.com
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011Comedy: W. Kamau Bell & Friends To Launch ‘Laughter Against the Machine’ Tour
Do you like your comedy seasoned with spicy social and political commentary? AP friend W. Kamau Bell is a part of the ‘Laughter Against the Machine’ (LATM) tour and documentary film project. Also on the bill: comedians Nato Green and Janine Brito. The tour starts Sept. 10 in Phoenix (see schedule below) and will be filmed for a documentary (click HERE if you’d like to help fund the production). To give you an idea of the madness they have in store for you, here’s the promo trailer. Racism, gay rights, feminism, you name it! Check it. – L C-D
Is I am or Is I Ain’t Jimi Hendrix? – KKK Blog
Friday, August 5th, 2011
In the back of my mind, I’ve always thought I could be Jimi Hendrix. I’m not saying I could be as good a guitar player. Nor am I saying that I would make as iconic a rockstar. My Afro could never compare to his. But I always thought I could do the thing where I went overseas to make my name and then come back A STAR! And people would ask me questions like, “How are you enjoying your first time in the States?” And I’d be like, “I’M FROM HERE BUT YOU DIDN’T GET ME SO I WENT TO WHERE I WAS WANTED!” This pretty much already happens whenever I go back to Chicago.
But that is exactly kinda what happened with Jimi Hendrix, and right now I am on a plane hoping it kinda exactly happens to me. I’m headed to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the original, biggest, and greatest fringe festival in the world. There are more than 2,500 shows and 1,300 premieres, more than 500 of which are X-rated. And guess what? Fringe audiences love — and love to love — comedy. They think it’s as valuable a form of artistic expression as dance, music, or theater. Silly, huh? Many American comics have made their bones in Edinburgh: Rich Hall, Demetri Martin, Doug Stanhope … others. And I’m hoping — maybe even desperately and furtively praying — that it will happen to me. TO READ MORE CLICK HERE
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| Zees is Jimi in Sweden. Borgy borgy borgy! |
Ebony and Ivory Live Together… But Off-Key
Monday, July 18th, 2011The following Facebook exchanges — with the weird period spacing and you’re/your violation — occurred between myself and a fan… an ex-fan. In my knowledge we had never conversed before.
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Ex-Facebook Fan User: Have to drop you from facebook . Your just not funny . Try just being a full on militant or something . Or there is , of course always welfare .
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W. Kamau Bell: Well, we had a good run. I’ll miss what we had together.
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EFFU: Parting is such sweet sorrow my nubian prince .
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W. Kamau Bell: Are you hitting on me?
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EFFU: LOL Bastard . Now the laughs . Fucking black people .
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W. Kamau Bell: Hopefully you have learned a valuable lesson. Good luck in everything you do.
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EFFU: I have not and will never learn anything . Good luck to you as well . WHITEPOWER !
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W. Kamau Bell: Fair enough. Then I hope you feel that you have accomplished what you wanted and also that you got what you needed from this.
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EFFU: I SAID GOOD DAY SIR !
And then all was quiet for 48 hours until…
Sunday
EFFU: I miss you so badly . sigh
Laughter Against The Machine Wants to Make the World Better with Your Help.
Friday, July 15th, 2011For a couple years now we Laughter Against The Machinists (W. Kamau Bell, Nato Green, and Janine Brito) have been doing shows in Northern California with a few toe dips into the Pacific Northwest. Warm, familiar, liberal places (except Sacramento) where we were pretty sure most of the audience would welcome us with open arms (except Marin). But the time has come for us to leave our creature comforts and to put our money where our mouth is and wade into the most polarized quagmires in the US, the flashpoints of American ignorance and upheaval. To roam the country bringing humor to the people who need it the most, and trying to answer the age-old question: can they take a joke? Read More…
Get a FREE Download of my CD AND do some good!
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
So you wanted my critically acclaimed CD, Face Full of Flour, for a while now but the current economy has made it such that you couldn’t scrape together the ten bucks. Well, I understand so I have partnered with the awesome racial justice organization Colorlines to come up with a way for you to get my CD FOR FREE and do some good.
Just click here (or the image above) and you can be whisked to fill out a short survey. In the process you will be helping them figure out ways make the world a better place. You know you wanna.
It’s a win, win! I want you to have my CD. You want to have my CD. And we both want the world to be a mo’ better place. Enjoy!
