William Bellamy

Bill Bellamy (born William Bellamy on April 7, 1965, in Newark, New Jersey) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He first gained national notoriety on HBO's Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam, where he is credited for creating or coining the phrase "booty call", described as a late night call to a potential paramour with the intention of meeting strictly for sex. Bellamy is a cousin of basketball player Shaquille O'Neal. He attended Seton Hall Preparatory School in South Orange, New Jersey, and majored in economics at Rutgers University.

For many years Bellamy was a staple on MTV, working as a VJ and hosting several programs including MTV Jams and MTV Beach House. He went on to star in a number of movies, including Fled, Love Jones, The Brothers, How to Be a Player, Getting Played and Any Given Sunday. He voiced Skeeter on the Nickelodeon show Cousin Skeeter and appeared on two episodes of Kenan & Kel. In 2002, he had a co-starring role in the Fox Network show Fastlane alongside Peter Facinelli and Tiffani Thiessen, and he appeared frequently as a roundtable guest on the E! talk show Chelsea Lately.

Bellamy hosted seasons 5 and 6 of NBC's reality show Last Comic Standing in 2007 and 2008. In 2014 he had a recurring role as Councilman Powell on the TV Land series Hot in Cleveland, and in 2016 he played FBI Agent Sanders, partner of Dolph Lundgren's character, in Kindergarten Cop 2. He also hosted and served as an executive producer for Bill Bellamy's Who's Got Jokes? on TV One, and in 2020 he starred in the Netflix miniseries Self Made.