Go the Fuck to Sleep
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Oct 20, 2026
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And then I played a recording of that Samuel L. Jackson.
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Well, it's a book by an author, but he narrates it in this video and it's called Go the Fuck to Sleep.
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And it's the funniest thing.
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If you've ever seen that, just go onto YouTube and type in Samuel L. Jackson, go the fuck to sleep.
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And it's just, it's, you know, a silly, you know, reading of a book that someone wrote.
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Not that you'd ever read that to a small child, probably last year.
W. Kamau BellHOST
It's about creativity, about families, figuring out how to defeat boredom.
W. Kamau BellHOST
Me and my friend Adam Mansback, who wrote Go the Fuck to Sleep, wrote this book, and the art is by Brianna Chambers, and she really captured all my family, including my mom.
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I've never done this before.
W. Kamau BellHOST
I'm nervous about a kid's book, but it's a great book.
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It is.
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We have to rewind the clock fifteen years, all the way back to twenty eleven, which was when Adam Mansbach released the original viral bestseller, Go the F to Sleep.
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That gap, that fifteen years, is the absolute key to understanding the entire project.
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Right.
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[laughs]
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You are just begging the universe for four consecutive hours of REM sleep so you can function at your job the next day.
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And that biological desperation is what made the original book resonate so violently with people.
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It was just so real.
W. Kamau BellGUEST
Together.
W. Kamau BellGUEST
Yeah, and this is another one of me going, hey, kids, you want to do this thing together? So me and Adam Mansback, who's a Berkeley author, most notably known for the parody of a children's book called Go the, I can't say it on KQED, Go the Sleep, Go the Bleep to Sleep.
W. Kamau BellGUEST
Go the Bleep
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to Sleep.
W. Kamau BellGUEST
And we've been friends for years and done a lot of political PSAs together.
W. Kamau BellGUEST
And he's a screenwriter and a children's book author.