Who’s With Me?

WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY W. KAMAU BELL
PEET’S THEATRE

APR 8–13, 2025
SPECIAL LIMITED ENGAGEMENT

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?

Production information

Runtime: 90 minutes; no intermission

Stage effects advisory: None

Content advisory: Mature content and conversation

W. Kamau Bell is a stand-up comedian, director, producer, husband, and dad. For seven seasons, he was the host and executive producer of the five-time Emmy Award-winning CNN docuseries United Shades of America. Kamau took home three Emmys from that series. Kamau won a Peabody Award for his Showtime docuseries We Need To Talk About Cosby. He contributed a chapter to the brand new New York Times bestselling Berkeley author Michael Lewis book Who is Government? — The Untold Story of Public Service. Kamau is also the co-author of the New York Times bestselling book Do the Work: An Antiracist Activity Book with Alameda resident Kate Schatz. His first book was his memoir with the easy-to-remember title: 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. Kamau’s HBO documentary 1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed was mostly filmed in Oakland. It won both an Emmy Award and a Television Academy Honor. As a stand-up comic, Kamau has recorded two comedy specials. The second one, Private School Negro, is available on Netflix and was one of Time Magazine’s top ten best stand-up comedy specials of 2018. Kamau is on the board of directors of DonorsChoose — a nonprofit that helps teachers raise money for class projects, and Live Free — a national nonprofit dedicated to ending gun violence, mass incarceration, and mass criminalization. It is led by Pastor Michael McBride of The Way Christian Center in Berkeley. Kamau also is the ACLU’s Celebrity Ambassador for Racial Justice, and he is the host of The ACLU’s podcast At Liberty. Kamau is currently competing on Celebrity Jeopardy. Kamau returned to stand-up comedy last year and developed this show at Berkeley Rep. He lives in Oakland, California. He cares too much and sleeps too little.