One of the funniest comedy shows I’ve ever seen was the taping of Brad Williams’s Fun Size at the Lobero Theatre in 2014. Turns out, I wasn’t the only one laughing. Fun Size was his first comedy special, went on to become the highest rated special on Showtime, and was a key factor in making Williams — who was born with achondroplasia, a type of dwarfism, which plays a large part in his stand-up — into one of the most in-demand comedians working today.
After a busy decade that included many more comedy specials — his latest, Brad Williams: Starfish, premiered in December on the streaming channel VEEPS — TV shows, feature films, and a gig as the first stand-up comedian to headline a Cirque du Soleil show (their newest, Mad Apple, in Las Vegas), he’s back at the Lobero on Saturday, January 6, where he’ll perform two shows.
I interviewed Williams last week, as he was preparing his latest tour, titled TOUR ‘24. (I promise the show will be much more creative than that title.)