Next shows April 15 & 16 @ La Pena Cultural Center in Berkeley, CA.

One part manifesto, one part diatribe, and several parts funny.

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. And racism hasn’t run this rampant since Martin Luther King, Jr. had that dream. While the economy fails, racism is thriving. Racial injustice has become more insidious, whether it’s Rush Limbaugh’s & Glenn Beck’s daily treason, OR town hall meetings that look like casual Fridays at a Ku Klux Klan rallies, OR Henry Louis Gates getting arrested for having a sticky door, OR the continued broadcast of BET, OR Tyler Perry… being Tyler Perry. And all the while
black people wonder, “Did we get a black president OR a president who is black?”). 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.

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, Berkeley, Oakland, and has also played The Jewish Community Center East Bay in Berkeley. It has also been performed twice at The Comedy Central Stage in Los Angeles. And this past summer appeared at The La Pena Cultural Center in Berkeley and The New York International Fringe Festival.