Tone Bell

Michael Anthony Bell II, known professionally as Tone Bell, is an American stand-up comedian and actor.

Early life

Bell was born in Decatur, Georgia. He attended Savannah State University where he studied communications with a concentration in radio and television and became a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. After graduating in 2004 he 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 & Peele and Game Show Network's Mind of a Man and hosted the first season of 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, Bell was cast in a lead role for the CBS comedy pilot Fam after having starred in the Netflix multi-camera comedy Disjointed.

Bell is the host of the new Netflix reality show Drink Masters, which premiered October 28, 2022. He stars as Khalil in the Netflix comedy series, Survival of the Thickest written by Michelle Buteau.

Filmography Films Year Title Role Notes 2013 Solstice Bartender #1 Short film 2013 Implanted Philip 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 The Weekend Bradford Collins It’s A Party Cool Breeze 2019 Little Preston 2020 Sylvie's Love Dickie Brewster 2021 The United States vs. Billie Holiday John LevyHorror Noire Marcus 2024 Trigger Warning Spider 2026 Coyote vs. Acme Sal Maltese TBATranscendingTBAPost-production

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