Kemah Bob

Kemah Bob is an American comedian from Waco, Texas. She Bob uses She (pronoun) /Singular they pronouns. This article uses she/her pronouns for consistency. has hosted It's a Sin: After Hours, and co-hosts The Island with Tom Allen and Jason Forbes.

## Contents

* 1 Early and personal life
* 2 Career
* 3 Accolades
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Early and personal life[edit]

Kemah was born in Waco, Texas,[1] and uses she/they pronouns.[2] Her grandfather is Camille Bob.[1] She has bipolar disorder, as does her mother and grandmother.[3]

## Career[edit]

Bob started her comedy career in Los Angeles, and cited The Inbetweeners and Skins as her inspiration to move to the UK.[4]

Bob hosts a comedy night and podcast[5] called FOC It Up, featuring comedians of colour who aren't cisgender men.[6] In 2019 she was a finalist in the Funny Women awards.[7] She has written for Have I Got News for You, Death to 2020 and Late Night Mash, acted in Pls Like and appeared as a contestant in Richard Osman's House of Games and Question Team.

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.[8]

## Accolades[edit]

* Finalist, Funny Women, 2019[7]
* Semi-Finalist, BBC New Comedy Awards, 2019[9]

## References[edit]

1. ↑ 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.
2. ↑ "Kemah Bob". Backyward Comedy Club. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
3. ↑ "Bipolar, Like Me". Kemahbob.com. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
4. ↑ 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.
5. ↑ Bennett, Steve. "Femmes of Color launches a comedy podcast : News 2022 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide". www.chortle.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
6. ↑ "Kemah Bob: Toxic masculinity and talk therapy have never been sillier". The Guardian. 2019-05-03. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Bennett, Steve. "Laura Smyth wins Funny Women Award : News 2019 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide". www.chortle.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
8. ↑ "Comedians Sophie Duker and Kemah Bob quit all-female panel show Yesterday, Today And The Day Before over 'unacceptable interference'". Future Tech Trends. 2021-05-27. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
9. ↑ "BBC Three - BBC New Comedy Awards, 2019, Semi-Final 2". BBC. BBC. Retrieved 20 December 2022.

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