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I'm Richard Francis Williams, a professional comic since 1996 with a career that includes touring the US, 2 Emmy nominations, writing for big-name comedians, selling a movie to Disney with Tim Allen, Performing on Comedy Central's Premium Blend, The HBO Aspen Comedy Festival New Faces, and numerous TV writing credits. Join me as I share invaluable insights, interviews, and personal experiences to help you master the art of stand-up comedy from joke writing to stage presence. For first timers to the old heads. You can always learn something new.
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Redbar Is Watching Secrets Of Standup: The Lessons From It
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Feb 02, 2024 |
A different kind of writing exercise to try
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Feb 02, 2024 |
Are Women Funny? A male comedian's perspective
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Feb 02, 2024 |
Jokes aren't hard. Premises are. Fun writing exercise
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Feb 02, 2024 |
Always record your set. Here's why.
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Feb 02, 2024 |
Write like you just got dumped
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Feb 02, 2024 |
My real life made it into another comic's special
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Feb 02, 2024 |
How to find your comedic voice
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Feb 02, 2024 |
Should you take a comedy class? The pros and cons
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Feb 02, 2024 |
A breakdown of 3 comedic voices on Twitter/X: Three Year Letterman Nick Adams Pericles "Perry" Abbasi
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Feb 02, 2024 |
Forget all the comedy formulas
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Feb 02, 2024 |
What are you willing to give up?
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Feb 02, 2024 |
Is Matt Rife's Success Fair? A comedian's perspective.
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Feb 02, 2024 |
Don't hook up at work
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Feb 02, 2024 |
Your mind is a search engine. Change your questions change your life.
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Feb 02, 2024 |
Is that really you on stage?
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Feb 02, 2024 |
Enough with being "Edgy"
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Feb 02, 2024 |
How Jim Gaffigan Killed After 8 Comics Bombed (Including Me)
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Feb 01, 2024 |
"Punching Down" is Nonsense
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Feb 01, 2024 |
Never make this mistake as a comedian
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Feb 01, 2024 |
Comic Intros: How to bomb before you even hit the stage
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Feb 01, 2024 |
In defense of Bert Kreischer
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Feb 01, 2024 |
Setups and Punchlines writing tip for jokes
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Feb 01, 2024 |
Stolen Bit Or Parallel Thinking? How To Deal With It
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Feb 01, 2024 |
BRINGER SHOWS — THE NEW COMEDIAN PYRAMID SCHEME?
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Feb 01, 2024 |
EMBRACE THE HACK - when Bad Comedy Kills
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Feb 01, 2024 |
Silence is Golden
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Feb 01, 2024 |
Thinking like a comedian is a dead end
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Feb 01, 2024 |
It could all end tomorrow
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Feb 01, 2024 |
The travesty of the George Carlin AI "Special"
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Jan 12, 2024 |
Jo Koy Golden Globes: What Went Wrong
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Jan 10, 2024 |
Katt Williams with Shannon Sharpe: The Lessons For Comedians
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Jan 10, 2024 |
Don't Let Your Ego Kill Your Comedy Career
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Jan 10, 2024 |
Drew Carey's 10 Jokes A Day Routine Secret Magic For Comedians Explained
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Jan 10, 2024 |
Me Doing Standup In 2016
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Jan 10, 2024 |
Update to my crowd work thoughts. Others agree!
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Jan 08, 2024 |
How to build a killer comedy set
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Jan 08, 2024 |
11 Ways To Handle Bombing On Stage
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Jan 08, 2024 |
If you want to kill on stage do this excercise
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Jan 08, 2024 |
Free Hypnosis session for comedians. DO NOT LISTEN WHILE DRIVING
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Jan 08, 2024 |
A comic's fears
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Jan 04, 2024 |
How "Happy Days" helped me memorize my jokes
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Jan 04, 2024 |
A second memorization trick that works
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Jan 04, 2024 |
Where do comics get their ideas and material from?
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Jan 04, 2024 |
How crowd work is killing comedy
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Jan 04, 2024 |
Make an actual game plan for the upcoming year
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Jan 03, 2024 |
If I can make it as a comedian you can to. How I became successful despite my childhood.
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Jan 03, 2024 |
Bill Burr's advice as a young comic to me in 1996
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Jan 03, 2024 |
Narrow Your Focus To Explode Your Creativity
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Jan 03, 2024 |
Goal Setting Workshop
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Jan 03, 2024 |