Comedian Brad Williams coming to Duluth
Brad Williams Tall Tales Tour ’26 Billboard
DULUTH, Minn. — Stand-up comedian Brad Williams is coming to Duluth. He’ll be playing DECC Symphony Hall on Thursday, March 26th at 7:00 PM with his all-new Tall Tales Tour.
Williams started doing stand-up comedy as a teenager and has been touring successfully ever since, routinely selling out prestigious venues all over the country and world. On his current tour, Williams is doing bigger theatres and arenas compared to club shows. That means Williams is doing even more work to connect to the crowd.
He explained, “In a club, I could do a little eye roll, or a facial expression.” In the bigger stage, he has owned the stage, saying, “Forgive the term coming from a dwarf, I have to be bigger.” It’s about connecting with the audience. “I want to make sure that even if you got tickets in row triple z, that you’re still having a great experience. So everything is just. Larger. Bigger. More physical. When I run, I run longer. It’s not just a club where I take, you know, three steps and I’m the other side of the stage. It’s like, I gotta run.” Williams says after the show, he wants everyone in the theatre to say he made eye contact with them at some point in time.
Explaining his act, Williams said, “I’m not a political comedian. I’m not that smart. Some people are really good, and they’re really smart with that. I’ve read like two Instagram memes, and people really shouldn’t listen to me. So I don’t care how you vote, what race you are, who you pray to, who you lay down with, I want all those different types of people in the same place, at the same time, having the exact same thought. Which is – Hey, that dwarf is pretty funny.” He continued, “You don’t have to be a little person to get my stuff. You don’t have to be out there, just like – ‘Well, I’m not a dwarf, so I won’t know what he’s talking about.’ No. I’m talking about universal things that we all go through. I just happen to do it at a slightly lower level.”
Williams is a parent, and you’ll hear him talking about his daughter on his show. But he said his show is not especially kid-friendly, “Expect some four-letter words. I know I’m cute, cuddly, and adorable, but I say some four-letter words. There’s many times people bring their 10-year-olds to shows. I’m just looking at the parents, like, are you nuts? Like, don’t do that! I’m all for having fans and new fans and, you know, appealing to the younger generation, but holy crap, I really got to judge your parenting on that one.”
In his Starfish special, Williams talks about his wife’s friend Carol. He doesn’t compliment her. We asked Williams how Carol was doing. He said, “It’s amazing to me. How many people think this is a bit? How many people think that Carol is someone I made up and not my wife’s friend, and this is real? My wife has a friend named Carol, and she, for some odd reason, still likes her. I can’t stand this woman.” The feeling is mutual. “Carol knows this. She knows I don’t like her. She knows I talked about it publicly, and she doesn’t like me either. So totally fine.”
He added, speaking of Carol, “She keeps wanting me to… thank her for all that she’s given me [for his act]. I’m like, I would happily trade all the anguish and stories you have provided for my act for just some peace and [expletive] quiet.”
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Williams went to college at the University of Southern California. They are now in the BIG TEN conference for sports. Williams is a big sports fan. We asked what he thought of USC being in the new conference. “That is so weird because it’s like, USC goes up, and they’ll play Michigan, or they’ll play the Golden Gophers, and it’s like, ‘this is BIG TEN football’. I’m like – no it’s not! It’s USC, it’s Marcus Allen, it’s Carson Palmer, it’s Reggie Bush. You know, it’s not BIG TEN football… We were used to meeting the BIG TEN in the Rose Bowl. That was always the tradition. And I really liked that. And I enjoyed the PAC 12, but Tony Kornheiser says, on Pardon the Interruption all the time, the answer to every question you’ve ever asked is ‘money’, and that’s the answer.
He just taped his 5th stand-up special, which is scheduled to air in early 2026. His 4th special, Brad Williams: Starfish, premiered in December of 2023.
Looking at his show’s Williams has a key goal, “just expect to walk out of there with a smile on your face and knowing you just had a great time at the theater.”
Williams has appeared on The Tonight Show, Dave Attell’s Comedy Underground, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. Williams has appeared on numerous TV shows and feature films, including FX’s Legit, Sam and Cat, Mind of Mencia, Pitboss, and a recurring role on the Hulu original show Deadbeat. Plus Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. He co-created and co-hosts the Heightened Babble podcast with his friend and fellow comic JB Ball.
