W. Kamau Bell will stop at Oak Park’s The Book Table, 200 N. Oak Park Ave., on Thursday, May 4, at 7 p.m. to promote his new book, 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.
The book was due out from Dutton on May 2.
Bell is a sociopolitical comedian and host of the Emmy-nominated CNN docuseries United Shades of America. The second season premieres this month.
He is also a graduate of University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where he delivered the 2016 commencement address.
Tickets are $33 each; visit awkwardkamau.brownpapertickets.com.