W. Kamau Bell's first joke about Barack Obama --- way back in 2005 --- was also THE first joke about Barack Obama (according to Comedy Central). So Kamau has never quite understood why people think it is so hard to tell jokes about America's 1st black president. "FACE FULL OF FLOUR", Kamau's second CD recorded at his home club, The San Francisco Punch Line, features comedic meditations on Barack Obama, The Wrongness of The Right, Interracial Mating, and why Black + White = Black. Much of the material that powers this release came from Kamau's critically acclaimed solo show, "The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour." According to Margaret Cho herself, "W. Kamau Bell is the most important guy doing comedy right now. Do yourself a favor and go see him. He's got the most astute, hilarious and completely righteous material going and he's going to be a legend in his own lifetime like Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce. Think Bill Hicks but slightly taller."
Review from East Bay Express: Bell's ability to veer from the banal to the bizarre is one of his big selling points. But he's not really an absurdist in the traditional sense - he's more of a political junky who sees everything through a racial lens. He reads online news voraciously, synthesizes information quickly, and tries to comment on it before the pundits weigh in.
