Kemah Bob
Kemah Bob is an American comedian from Waco, Texas. She[lower-alpha 1] has hosted It's a Sin: After Hours, and co-hosts The Island with Tom Allen and Jason Forbes.
Early and personal life
Bob was born in Waco, Texas,[1] and uses she/they pronouns.[2] In an interview with Metro, Bob said "I do identify as a woman, I use she/they pronouns, but there are so many unanswered questions that I don’t feel the need to answer around my own gender identity".[3] Bob is queer.[4]
Bob's grandfather is Camille Bob.[1] She has bipolar disorder, as do her mother and grandmother.[5]
Career
Bob started her comedy career in Los Angeles, and cited The Inbetweeners and Skins as her inspiration to move to the UK.[6]
Bob hosts a comedy night and podcast[7] called FOC It Up, featuring comedians of colour who aren't cisgender men.[8] In 2019 she was a finalist in the Funny Women awards.[9] She has written for Have I Got News for You, Death to 2020 and Late Night Mash, acted in Pls Like, appeared as a contestant in Richard Osman's House of Games and Question Team, and as a team member on Guessable.
In 2021, she worked on the Comedy Central panel show Yesterday, Today and The Day Before, but quit after the first episode 'in solidarity' with fellow comedian Sophie Duker over cuts to Duker's monologue about the conflict between Israel and Palestine.[10][11][12]
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Funny Women | Funny Women 2019 | Finalist | [9] |
| 2019 | BBC New Comedy Award | BBC New Comedy Award 2019 | Semi-Finalist | [13] |
Notes
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Kemah Bob and her brilliantly diverse FOC IT UP! podcast are blowing the doors of comedy wide open". Evening Standard. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ↑ "Kemah Bob". Backyward Comedy Club. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ↑ Griffin, Louise (13 July 2022). "Kemah Bob on why it's essential to create safe spaces for trans people in comedy". Metro. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
- ↑ Bob, Kemah (11 March 2021). "@kemahbob - Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
[...] Very much a Black queer mild girl
- ↑ "Bipolar, Like Me". Kemahbob.com. Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ↑ Pape, Liam (10 October 2022). "Kemah Bob: 'I get so much bad advice from men who've never done comedy before'". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
- ↑ Bennett, Steve. "Femmes of Color launches a comedy podcast : News 2022 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide". www.chortle.co.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
- ↑ "Kemah Bob: Toxic masculinity and talk therapy have never been sillier". The Guardian. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Bennett, Steve. "Laura Smyth wins Funny Women Award : News 2019 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide". www.chortle.co.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
- ↑ "Comedians Sophie Duker and Kemah Bob quit all-female panel show Yesterday, Today And The Day Before over 'unacceptable interference'". Future Tech Trends. 27 May 2021. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
- ↑ Guide, British Comedy (27 May 2021). "Comedians quit Yesterday, Today & The Day Before in Palestine protest". British Comedy Guide.
- ↑ Farber, Alex (27 May 2021). "Comedy Central hosts step down amid censorship row". Broadcast.
- ↑ "BBC Three - BBC New Comedy Awards, 2019, Semi-Final 2". BBC. BBC. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
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