Get ready to unleash some serious success vibes as Zack Ellison and Shawne Merriman dive deep into the world of longevity and adaptability in the entertainment industry with the one and only Bill Bellamy. In this episode of Success Unleash’d, hear Bill Bellamy, renowned actor, comedian, and entrepreneur, share his incredible journey from MTV’s hottest VJ to a multifaceted entertainment powerhouse. Discover the secrets behind his decades-long career, including exclusive stories about interviewing Michael Jackson and starring alongside Al Pacino in “Any Given Sunday.” Bill breaks down the crucial role of discipline, pivoting with industry changes, and the power of building genuine relationships—lessons perfect for anyone aiming to carve out their own path to success, whether in entertainment or beyond.

Success Unleash’d Principles From This Episode

1. Be Willing to Pivot When the Game Changes

Bill emphasized the importance of recognizing when a chapter is ending and taking proactive steps to pivot: “You don’t retire from MTV… that was just a chapter.” He transitioned into acting, stand-up, and production because he anticipated the industry’s shift.

2. Longevity Comes from Work Ethic

Bill likened longevity to getting up shots in basketball: “You got to get up shots to be a good shooter.” Staying relevant isn’t luck — it’s about consistency, preparation, and effort over time.

3. Reinvention Requires Humility and Discipline

Success demands preparation. “I went to acting class. I humbled myself,” Bill said. He didn’t rely on fame to coast — he studied and trained to be taken seriously in new arenas.

4. Build Authentic Relationships — They Are Your Currency

As Magic Johnson told him, “You’re only as good as the relationships that you have.” Business and personal growth are rooted in meaningful, strategic connections.

5. Be the Energy You Want to Attract

Bill stressed the importance of enthusiasm and authenticity. “You should be an extension of your brand,” he said. People want to connect with individuals who embody their values and vision.

6. Prepare Like a Pro, No Matter the Role

To play a believable NFL wide receiver in Any Given Sunday, Bill trained for six months alongside real players. That preparation earned him credibility and transformed his performance.

7. Bet on Yourself — No One Else Will Do It for You

Bill left a corporate career with no safety net: “I bet on myself.” That leap turned him into the first multimillionaire in his family. Self-belief is the foundation of big risks — and bigger rewards.

8. Stay Agile to Stay Ahead

From music to film to digital media, Bill has continuously adapted. “Every time there was a shift, I made a pivot… I crossed back.” Flexibility keeps you relevant in rapidly evolving industries.

9. Deliver Value and Overdeliver Every Time

Inspired by Magic Johnson’s mantra, Bill shared: “I over-deliver. So people want to work with me again.” Long-term success comes from exceeding expectations.

10. Discipline Is the Bridge Between Goals and Achievement

Bill and Shawne both credited discipline as the ultimate advantage. Whether it’s managing time, saying no to distractions, or pushing through adversity, discipline is the trait that sets elite performers apart.

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Achieving Enduring Fame: Longevity Secrets In The Entertainment Industry With Bill Bellamy

We have with us Bill Bellamy, who is a legendary Actor, Entertainer, Philanthropist, Entrepreneur. I grew up with Bill.

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Bill Bellamy: From MTV Icon to Michael Jackson Moments

Bill, you were the guy when we were growing up. You were hosting on MTV, talking about people like Michael Jackson, Madonna, and everybody in between. You’ve been in the game for a long time and done quite well, and you continue to do quite well. It’s awesome to have you on the show.

Thank you. You guys are doing a fantastic job. I love what you’re doing with your show. It’s got the right vibe. I’ve known Shawne forever, I was like, I got to sit down and talk to my boys. It’s all good.

Bill, for those that don’t know, these younger folks that don’t necessarily know what you were doing many years ago, what would you tell them about your career?

I would say if most people are under 40 or maybe under 35, I was what they call a video jockey, a VJ. Basically, I was an on-air host for MTV. I hosted their top-rated shows from Top 40, Top 20 countdown, TRL and MTV Jams. I did Spring Breaks where I would host these music driven shows with all the biggest artists of the ‘90s in every genre of music, from hip hop to rock to grunge to acoustic.

We’ve done so many good things. The beauty of it was that I was already a music fan, and then I got a backstage pass to be in the music business. As the host, I would be talking to Michael Jackson, like you said earlier, or I would interview Whitney Houston, or Alanis Morissette, or Sugar Ray, or Blind Melon. These are all the groups and bands, Hootie and the Blowfish. I got a chance to be cool with a lot of people and help a lot of artists sell millions of records.

Just a quick thought, Shawne. I wanted to ask Bill. When we were talking in LA, Bill, you were mentioning how you interviewed Michael Jackson, and that was quite an experience. Could you just talk a little bit about that? I thought that was a funny story.

The crazy thing about that opportunity was Michael Jackson was the first artist to premiere his video simultaneously on every network. It was a big deal, and I was the host of that special. It was dealing with his History album. That was a big launch for Sony music. When I got the call to interview Michael Jackson, I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t even sleep the night before. I was like, “This is crazy. I’m going to be talking to Michael Jackson. Are you serious?”

I grew up watching the Jacksons, I grew up watching Michael. I never thought I’d meet him. I knew he was a big music star, but when he came in with that security team, about 30 dudes and 10 publicists, and backup for the backup, makeup, his own DP, that’s a director of lighting to light himself, I was like, “This dude is a super-duper star.”

They took two hours just to light the interview area. There was a dude there with a little thing, like it was a movie. I said, “This dude is incredible.” What was so bizarre was he was so shy. I never would anticipate that Michael Jackson would be shy, because when he’s on stage, he’s dancing and he’s doing all these moves. When you sit there and talk to him, he’ll say, “Thank you.”

The Secret to Longevity: Bill Bellamy’s Career Strategies

Bill, it’s crazy because for me, coming from PG County, being in the DC area, we didn’t meet yet, but we crossed paths in the early 2000s. I don’t know if you were doing comedy shows, maybe it was like one of big ticket weekends. It was something in the early 2000s. I was like, “This is cool.” What I always appreciated not about anybody, but especially you, is the longevity. I think that a lot of people overlook longevity and how important it is.

It’s so easy to be hot for a couple of years. It’s so easy to have something big going on. With you, the longevity, can you talk a little bit about what’s going into your movies that you had in the ‘90s all the way until just you getting on tv? I think I remember it was MTV. It was B to the Basement. Trust me, I go back because I was around this whole thing. It saw it. Can you just talk about how important longevity is?

I really honestly think that longevity comes with work ethic. I think it would be equivalent to, I always use this basketball analogy. You’ve got to give up shots to be a good shooter. You’re not going to be a good shooter without shooting. You’re not going to be physically fit if you don’t go to the gym. For me, I always just had my head down. I love what I do. I love entertaining people. I love putting projects together that I think are going to make people smile or be think or just learn about something they never knew about. There’s a lot of creativity in me that I utilize in different ways. Being entertainer to me is a perfect job because I have a mindset for it. I have a gift of laughter, the gift of creation.

I can take an idea and format it and make it a show or get the right actors and actresses to get together. When you have a lot of different types of talent, you’re not a one trick pony. Let’s be honest, in the music game, being an athlete, like, literally, if you’re not healthy, if you break your leg, or if you just can’t adjust to this new coordinator and you don’t learn, you can’t play football. You might have to adjust your game just so you can get an extra three years in that sport.

It’s no different with entertainment, because look at the music industry. The music industry changed. Artists used to get big record deals. You don’t hear about that anymore. Think about movies. They were making movies every summer. You were going to the movie theaters. Now people are watching movies on their phone. People are watching movies on Tubi. People are watching movies on Amazon. People watching movies on Netflix.

If you’re not adjusting to the game, you are going to get stuck in maybe a decade. You’ll be stuck in an era. It’s almost like it’s an invisible wall. Every time there was a shift, I felt like I made a pivot. In basketball, it would be a crossover. I’d cross back. I’d do TV, I’d do drama and then I get lucky enough to get on a sitcom. I’d do that. I’ve never been pigeonholed one way. Maybe that’s a good thing or a bad thing, because people are like, “Bill Bellamy does everything.” Yeah, I do, but I can’t do everything at the same time.

Transforming into a Role: Bill Bellamy in “Any Given Sunday”

Bill, how many movies have you done in your career? How many times have you done a standup show?

I want to get Zack off of that. One of my favorite movies of all time was Any Given Sunday. I want specifically we talking about movies. I want to hear about that one.

I think the easier movies for me to do are comedies, because that’s my wheelhouse. I know instinctively what is funny. That’s a layer for me. I think doing dramatic roles I love, because they’re challenging and they’re different from what people expect of me. I thought doing any given Sunday with Al Pacino, Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, LL Cool J, I thought that was a really great project for me because it gave me an opportunity and it challenged me to become somebody completely different from Bill Bellamy. I played this guy named Jimmy Sanderson who was like a cross between Deion Sanders and Terrell Owens. He’s trying to get another contract. He’s a star on the team, but he’s playing with injuries.

He doesn’t want to tell people he’s on he’s addicted to painkillers in a way so he can play because he wants to get that next big deal, maybe retire, maybe get traded. He doesn’t know. That is a desperate person, and that’s a person that is in survival mode. I thought that character was dope because I was like, “This is the kind of stuff that people don’t know that athletes go through.” They don’t know if they’re going to get another check. They don’t know if the coaches are going to take care of them.

They go in the game injured, “Will I get cut?” There’s so much trickery in the NFL. When I got a chance to play a real dope different type of character, I had to go to Miami for six months. I was working out I was about 235, chiseled, like just ripped. The shreds. I was working out twice a day for months, like lifting heavy, doing wind sprints, working out with Terrell Owens, Antonio Freeman, Jacquez Green. Those guys were just drilling me. They wanted me to be authentic. Before you knew it, my traps was a certain way. I looked completely different. People thought I was in the NFL.

That’s one of the questions I wanted to ask because I don’t know if you’ve seen this. There was a movie that Tom Cruise was in a long time ago, and he was throwing the football and it’s like a meme out there now. He just looked like he could not throw a football five yards. His form was so bad. Everything was so bad. When I saw you in that movie, I said, “No. He had some work somewhere. He was around some wide receivers. He was running the route trees.” He was working out because to me, that’s one of my favorite movies of all time because of the preparation.

I had to, Shawne. Those guys was not letting me look wrong. It’s pride. You know this. You guys have a lot of pride. It’s very machismo. It’s a very alpha-driven culture. Authenticity is everything to football players. When I went to camp, it was almost like I had to shred myself of Bill Bellamy and they built me back up as an NFL wide receiver.

It was just a transformation of a game changer for me as a man. I became friends with these guys forever. I’m tight with these guys to this day. Those guys are my brothers because we were in the trenches. These dudes left 285 on my chest, like, “I’m not helping you. Get it up.” These dudes were crazy. Maniacs.

It is still in me. As you see, I get amped because it’s just one of those things that I love to this day, and I carry that energy with me and it keeps that type of will to win. That type of tenacity can be applied to every facet of your life.

Discipline and Structure: The Pillars of Bill Bellamy’s Success

Bill, you’ve done probably thousands of standup gigs. Dozens of, dozens of movies. You are obviously hosting all these top shows for MTV. That takes, as Shawne pointed out, a ton of longevity. You’re like the Tom Brady of the entertainment business. I’m curious, what are the habits that got you to this point? What did you do day in and day out over the years where you’ve been successful for decades? There’s got to be a mindset and processes behind that. What are those?

First of all, I think you have to have structure and you have to have to discipline to stay within those structures. Success, to me, is not haphazard. I think a lot of success is just opportunity met with preparation. When I knew I wanted to be an actor, I went to acting class. I took some of the best classes in New York City. I was like, “I want to be able to not be nervous and be able to have access to these emotions to do this thing for this big-time director.” I couldn’t be Bill Bellamy, the comedian personality. They don’t want to see that. They know that. They want to see the other side of me. What are the layers? What emotions that I have access to?

That respect for the game, that discipline to go to humble myself and not say, “I’m Bill Bellamy. I don’t have to take classes. I could just wing it.” No, I had to get myself together. You get up early, you go to your classes, you get reps on your scenes. It’s no different than getting ready for an interview. You’ve got to be prepared. You’ve got to know who this person is.

Maybe get a different type of interview from him because he feels like you really know who he is. I always got great interviews from people. One, I made them laugh, which is also disarming because people feel comfortable. They’re having a good time. Now they talking from the real place. That was an attribute. That took practice to do that. Even like I was saying earlier, like even in comedy. I have to look at that script, read it 8, 9, 10 times in a row, and just keep thinking about what I could do in this scene?

How does this guy feel? What is his why? These are all the things that have to be going on in your mind for the scene to come off amazing. As the consumer, you’re going on a date with your lady, you’re having fun and you’re cracking up. How do I make you crack up if I don’t do the work? You have to do the work. You have to be disciplined, and you have to hold yourself accountable.

One of the things that we constantly talk about when anybody come on is discipline. Especially when you’re making that real push into being an entrepreneur, when you’re building a company, I just say discipline to me has been, as a former athlete, one of my biggest attributes where I can take that. It has taken me to the next level. Discipline with my time, discipline not doing certain things. I need to be somewhere else. It’s just really discipline. You keep bringing that up. How does discipline play effect in everything you have going on now, making that a really strong entrepreneurial push?

The thing about it is, is you got to have this thing they call stick-to-it-tiveness. It’s not easy to make a pivot. It is not easy to convince people that you can do a dramatic scene. It’s not easy for directors or your agents to sell you. People, overall, love you and like you, but they don’t know if you could be devious or you could play a role where you are manipulative or you might be an asshole in this particular movie, but they never see their side. For me, that drive of proving people wrong, going through adversity, wanting to win, like you say, it becomes an attribute. Even though I’ve been successful, I do have an underdog mentality because I got it out the mud.

I didn’t come from a trust fund situation. I didn’t have access to the game, an HOV lane to success. Nobody ushered me into the entertainment world. I came from Corporate America with a really solid college education. I went to Rutgers. I worked for two and a half years in Corporate America, realized that there was a glass ceiling on that. I didn’t want to do that. I was like, “Maybe I could try entertainment.”

I don’t know what’s going to happen. I bet on myself. I became the first multi-millionaire in my family. It was like, “What?” That’s the crazy thing about it. When you work for yourself, there’s no ceiling. I don’t feel like, “I’m going to work.” I feel like I’m just living my dream.

Mentorship & Business: Magic Johnson’s Influence

Bill, talk a little bit about your journey as an entrepreneur, especially over the last several years with some of the companies that you’ve been working with.

One of the things that I really haven’t passionate about in the last few years is just branding myself and also associating myself with brands that I think compliment who I am and where I see the future going. That requires a lot of research, requires a lot of meetings, and meeting different types of people. When I started, my mentors is, Magic Johnson. We spent a lot of time talking about business. He was like, “Bill, how do you see yourself when you don’t want to do standup or you don’t want to do movies and you want to do something else? What do you want to do?” I said I want to be a businessman as well. He was like, “You’ve got to start taking those steps now. You’ve got to start pivoting and start letting people see you in a different way.”

How long ago was this conversation?

This was right about five years ago. We went on a trip to Central PA. We were all out on a boat, so we’re talking every day. Nobody’s on their phone. We were having some real fly entrepreneurial-type of conversations. He was saying how hard it was for him because he was such a big athlete, big superstar, Mr. Playboy. He had all that energy at that time. He was like, “I can’t play basketball for 30 years.”

He just started to wear his stoops a different way. He made sure he was on time for his meetings. He made sure that he overdelivered. He said the best thing for him is, he said, “I overdeliver. It doesn’t matter what I do, I overdeliver. Now when I’m doing business, people have enthusiasm to work with me again.” I was like, “Duly noted.” After having conversations with him, it was just funny how life is because you just thinking about it and creating that energy, I started meeting different people.

Pause for a sec. I don’t want to get off of Magic’s influence too quickly because obviously he has been a great business builder after his legendary NBA career. What are some of the other lessons you learned from Magic and any of your other mentors?

What I learned from magic is, your only good is the relationships that you have. That’s it, because business is about relationships and creating relationships that are cohesive and that are complimentary. I’m just giving you an example. Let’s say we all work together. I have friends that could help you. You have friends that could help me. Shawne has friends. Once we start talking, let’s say we’re in a think tank, we’d be like, “We could pair that with this, and then we could all work together like this.” That’s the beauty of business. You got to be a certain type of person. You have to open your mouth. You have to communicate what your dreams are. You got to have, hopefully, a great team around you that can help provide you that opportunity where you can be successful.

You cannot do it by yourself. It’s impossible. It’s impossible to be successful by yourself. If you can provide, he also said, “Provide a need that’s missing.” What is it? What is something that’s missing? Can you figure out how to provide that need? You then accentuate that. Next thing you know, you have a thriving business. He just signed an amazing deal with the airports, amazing deal with JFK, laguardia, Newark, like where he is. His company’s in charge of all the services for airports. Just think about all that foot traffic, just printing money.

Regardless of if you were behind the camera in front of the camera, you got a business background. You understand the business. I think for me, even like when I retired, I was doing a lot of the big network broadcast and sports broadcast, but I was also doing it while I was playing. If it was after the game, pros game, pre-game, during the off season, I stayed really in front of the camera. I already knew what I wanted to do.

When did it hit you, like, “Okay, I’m going to step from behind being in front of that camera. I’m going to start learning some of this stuff behind the camera and how this business worked and how to really jump into this thing.” Most athletes, it’s when you get hurt. Do you get what I’m saying? You’ve been doing it for so long, when did that happen for you? My first big knee injury was in 2000. I walked around like I was Superman. You couldn’t tell me nothing.

You were Superman. That’s the thing. You were young and strong. You never think you’re going to get hurt or anything.

When did it happen? You had such a long career and you still got you still got a lot of big things going on. When did you start to pivot?

I’m going to give you two pivots. My first pivot was when I was on MTV and I realized, I was like, “This is not a job that you can do for fifteen years.” You don’t retire from MTV. You know they rotate out different hosts and stuff like that. I already knew in the back of my mind, that would not be my stop. That was just a chapter.

I pivoted into acting. I pivoted into more of my standup, producing my own standup specials, writing and producing my TV shows and stuff like that. That was like a pivot, knowing that this was going to be short-term. This has another chapter. My next pivot is like, “I want to be an entrepreneur. I want to create business. I want to create new relationships. How do I do that?”

There was a point in my career where I would never ask anybody for their phone number. I would never give my number out. I just wasn’t comfortable communicating with people to that level, that personal space. I read this book called The Tipping Point, and I think a lot of guys need to read this book. It’s a really incredible book about relationships and how certain people are successful and some people are not.

One of the things that I learned from the book. You are only as good as the relationships you have in your phone. If they’re not in your phone and you can’t put them in your phone and you can’t get access to them, then how do you have business? How do you have any type of connection? As I’m moving over into this investment world startup company world, entrepreneurial business mindset, I have to be able to be open to relationships.

I have to take meetings. I have to show up and be on a board to give some strategy advice and just give my perspective on how to make sure you continue to win in a business that’s changing every day. I have 30 years of experience that I can share with so many different people, but I can’t be shy. I’ve got to humble myself and learn this game. It’s the same game, but just a different language.

You’re a rookie walking the locker room again.

That’s all it is. Yeah.

Building Breakbeat Media: Fulfilling a Global Hip Hop Need

Bill, I wanted to ask you, when you talked about the advice you got for Magic in terms of identifying a need in the market that’s not being met, and then being the person and/or the firm to fill that need, you’re doing that now with Breakbeat Media. Talk a little bit about what Breakbeats doing with the podcasts and the gap that it’s filling in the hip hop community globally.

Okay. Dave Mays, who is like 25 years of friendship and working on different projects together, he came to me with a vision about Breakbeat Media, and he was like, “Bill, I know you know the MTV stuff. Basically, what I want to do is I want to take a platform like Breakbeat Media and make it be the global community for hip hop, pop culture, fashion sports.” I said, “That’s cool,” because we don’t have it.

I’m going on the internet, I’m looking, I’m like, “There’s not really a spot.” I remember MTV and BET being the 1, 2 in the ‘90s., what about the global market? The global market is amazing. That means it’s infinity. That means kids from all over the place, young consumers, people that do tiktok and Instagram could be dialoguing worldwide with different people that love music, sharing music, sharing thoughts, creating content.

I thought that was an interesting world. We partnered up and we have been chipping at this amazing mountain of technology, of content creation. As you said earlier, the podcast world is a niche that people love. People like to curate their own styles of content. There’s room for everybody. You just have to build your audience. You have to keep providing good content and then it just grows.

You see sponsorship dollars coming in. You see TV deals coming in. They’re taking guys off of a podcast that they’re probably doing in their garage and putting them on national tv because they have an audience. Look at somebody like Pat McAfee. Pat McAfee came off of YouTube. He’s on national TV. This is the same guy. He made it happen, but he’s always consistent. He’s always been Pat, and that’s why his show is successful.

Breakbeats had hundreds of millions of views on YouTube from the top podcasts in the world right now in different in different buckets. It’s great that you’ve been part of that. I think that it’s got huge potential.

Yeah. That’s why I’m excited about it, because there’s no ceilings on what the potential is. It just requires what we said earlier, like the discipline to keep the artists putting out great content, to curate that content. That data’s compelling. That content makes people laugh. It’s shareable. There are moments where people can learn and share with their friends. Those are the moments that you can create online that travel all over the world.

We want to be the best place for information when albums will come out. People don’t even know when albums come out anymore. You just get a notification sometime on your phone. Back in the day, we used to know that the new A Tribe Called Quest album was coming out. The new Sugar Ray album was coming out. Now, they just suggest a song on your phone.

Between Breakbeat and Lights Out Sports TV, people could basically be fully covered on all the good stuff.

That’s what we’re doing.

All the best sports content.

Bill, we’re just about out of time. I wanted to just thank you for coming on. I’ll summarize quickly and tell me if I’m missing anything that goes on this master list of success principles. We’ve got preparation. You made a point about how you always are preparing and being very disciplined, which Shawne talked about as well, and work ethic, of course, coming in every single day and putting the work.

Of course, being able to be agile and pivot where necessary because the world’s changing so quickly. It’s not the same as it was yesterday even. Being able to be nimble, I think, is something that you’ve done really well. Shawne as well. I love this idea about building relationships, too, that you talked about, and you know how Magic Johnson basically said you’re as strong as your network.

What I think you guys do really well, both Shawne and Bill and most of the guests that we bring on, quite frankly, is you have amazing access. That’s because you’re very talented, but you also work relentlessly hard at adding value for people. To me, that’s why they want you in the room. Once you’re in that room and no one else is, that’s when you have a competitive advantage that nobody else can replicate.

That is absolutely true. One thing I want to add to that is don’t forget to have fun and be enthusiastic about what you want to do because like Shawne and myself, no one can sell it better than you. If you are proud of your product, you can sell your product without selling it. You have to be an example of of what the brand is. I believe that holds true because when people meet you, you should be an extension of your brand.

The last thing, and I want to say yeah, I know we’ve known each other for a long time and just I’ve never got a chance to ask some of these questions. I’m just really excited for what you’re doing and I got a chance to talk to Dave indirectly. I’ve known Dave for a long time because he’s from the city, from PG.

Absolutely. PG County.

You know it. I appreciate you for coming on. Good luck with everything. Let’s catch up one of these days.

Absolutely. I enjoyed being on the show with you guys. Keep rocking out.

All right, Bill. Thank you very much.

Important Links

• Zack Ellison on LinkedIn
• Zack Ellison on Instagram
• The 7 in 7 Show with Zack Ellison (podcast)
• Applied Real Intelligence (A.R.I.) website
• Shawne Merriman on LinkedIn
• Shawne Merriman on Instagram
• Lights Out Sports TV website
• Lights Out Xtreme Fighting website
• Bill Bellamy on Instagram
• Breakbeat Media
• Top Billin’ with Bill Bellamy

 About Bill Bellamy

Bill Bellamy is a versatile entertainer renowned for his dynamic presence in stand-up comedy, acting, and television hosting. Making his mark in the early 1990s, Bellamy emerged as a standout comic on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam before securing his own special on Showtime. Building on his success, Bellamy became a fixture on MTV, notably as the original host of the groundbreaking series MTV Jams, MTV Beach House, and Total Recall Live.

Transitioning seamlessly into acting, he starred in numerous films, including The Brothers, nominated for a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture, Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday, How To Be A Player, Love Jones, and Netflix’s critically acclaimed limited series Self Made with Octavia Spencer. Bellamy’s television credits include Fox’s Fastlane, NBC’s Last Comic Standing (as host), and TV Land’s Hot in Cleveland.

While he has ventured into various entertainment realms, comedy remains at the core of his work. The success of his comedy special Ladies Night Out on Showtime and the 2023 release of I Want My Life Back on Amazon cements Bellamy’s legacy as a top comedian in this industry. He continues to tour regularly, spreading his energetic and infectious humor nationwide.

Bellamy provides an all-access, backstage pass to his life in his recently released memoir, Top Billin’: Stories of Laughter, Life Lessons, and Triumph. He also has an incredible podcast called Top BILLIN’ with Bill Bellamy.