Tone Bell

Tone Bell
Bell in August 2018
Born Michael Anthony Bell Jr.
(1982-08-10) August 10, 1982
Decatur, Georgia
Nationality American
Alma mater Savannah State University
Occupation Stand-up comedian, actor
Website toneisfunny.com

Michael Anthony "Tone" Bell Jr. (born August 10, 1982) is an American stand-up comedian and actor.

Early life

Bell was born in Decatur, Georgia and grew up in Atlanta. He attended Savannah State University majoring in television and film and acted as their school mascot at football games as well. For an income after graduation, Tone taught first grade, before working on the production of HBO's Warm Springs and doing other various promo work.

Bell took a job in San Francisco as a brand manager with Swivel Media for a year, before moving back to Atlanta. There he started doing promotion work for a beer company that eventually transferred him to Dallas where he started doing open-mics at various comedy clubs.

Career

Shortly after moving to Los Angeles, Bell won the NBC Stand Up For Diversity Talent Search in 2012 and was awarded a development deal from the network. He was cast as, "RJ", the bartender in the NBC sitcom Whitney and later as,"Tedward", in NBC's Bad Judge. Bell also appeared in other TV shows, including VH1's Single Ladies, E!'s Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings, Comedy Central's Key and Peele and Game Show Network's Mind of a Man and hosted the first season hidden camera show Jerks with Cameras on MTV.

Bell also has a web series on Russell Simmons' YouTube channel All Def Digital called The Green Room.

In March, 2018 it was announced that Bell was cast in a lead role for the CBS comedy pilot “Fam” after recently starring in the Netflix multi-cam “Disjointed”.[1]

Filmography

Films

Year Title Role Notes
2013 Solstice Bartender #1 Short film
2013 Implanted Philip
2013 To My Future Assistant Davis Television film
2016 My Time Your Time Parker Television film
2017 Woman Child Michael Abby Short film
2018 Dog Days Jimmy

Television series

Year Title Role Notes
2012 Single Ladies Parker 2 episodes
2012-13 Whitney RJ 13 episodes
2013 Creepy Caress Tom 1 episode
2013 Key & Peele Friend #1 1 episode
2014-15 Bad Judge Tedward Mulray 13 episodes
2015 Truth Be Told Russell 10 episodes
2016 The Flash Scott Evans 2 episodes
2017 9JKL Luke 2 episodes
2017-18 Disjointed Carter 20 episodes
2018 Fam Nick Post-production

References

  1. ↑ Otterson, Joe (2018-03-13). "'Disjointed' Alum Tone Bell to Star in CBS Comedy Pilot 'Fam'". Variety. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
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