{"id":244911,"date":"2026-03-31T11:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244911\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:21:11","slug":"w-kamau-bell-headlines-san-francisco-benefit-for-immigrant-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244911\/","title":{"rendered":"W Kamau Bell headlines San Francisco benefit for immigrant aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emmy-winning host and commentator W. Kamau Bell, \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d alum Melissa Villase\u00f1or and comedian-writer Joel Kim Booster are slated to perform, with \u201cFake the Nation\u2019s\u201d Negin Farsad serving as emcee for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityboxoffice.com\/eventperformances.asp?evt=3266\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 30 evening event.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fundraiser leans into humor as a way to engage audiences on complex issues, while raising funds to help immigrant\u00a0families with affordable legal aid, a need which organizers say has grown significantly in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emmy-winning host and commentator W. Kamau Bell, \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d alum Melissa Villase\u00f1or and comedian-writer Joel Kim Booster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[329,2241,35717,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-244911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-arts-and-entertainment","9":"tag-comedy","10":"tag-datebook-pick","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","13":"tag-san-francisco-news","14":"tag-sf","15":"tag-sf-headlines","16":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}