E275. Funny Is The Ultimate Currency - Brad Williams

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Comedian Brad Williams stops in to talk shop with Bridget. They discuss the immediate feedback of performing in front of a live audience, the fun part about crowd work, the joys of parenthood, having a solid family core, keeping life as normal as possible for your kid, how his dad trained him to defend himself against bullies and he saw the power of humor, how he got into comedy, and the politics of the open mic community. They also cover why funny trumps everything, the hardest part of his new special, getting the right kind of laughter, how much they've changed since their early days of comedy, how cancel culture doesn't allow you to evolve, the cost of holding onto your integrity, and the role of comedians in our society. Check out Brad's latest special Starfish. Sponsor Links: - Varnamtown: https://bit.ly/wiw-varnamtown - Pluto TV: https://bit.ly/WiWPlutoTV

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0:00.0	This week on the podcast we welcome comedian Brad Williams.
0:04.6	Funny in this business is the ultimate currency.
0:07.8	It's the only thing people care about.
0:10.7	Any comedy club and you're sitting in green room like oh like and you see
0:15.4	so many different types of people that are in so many different like identify in
0:19.0	so many different types of ways and we're all just hanging out because we're all funny and that's it.
0:24.2	Yeah, that's all anyone cares about is just being funny.
0:27.8	No one's no one's taking stock of like well how many women are in this room?
0:32.3	How many people of color in this
0:33.3	room have you trained it's just funny it's just funny and that and that's it and
0:38.9	like I never looked around and thought to myself like oh there's no other
0:44.3	dwarves I don't see any other little people around so I'm fucked like I'm not gonna I
0:49.2	don't have a representation I just looked at it like oh I just have to be funny and that's it.
0:54.0	This is walk-ins welcome with Bridget Petacy. I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill, please rate comment share reach out tell your friends send smoke signals whatever we love your feedback and we want to hear from you
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1:40.8	All right our first podcast back in the new year.
1:46.1	I am with my old friend Brad Williams.
1:49.2	Welcome.
1:51.6	I am kicking off the new year.
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