The Mushroom King’s Comedy Night!

I am The Mushroom King, and I organized our first Mushroom Comedy Night at the PACK Theater, alongside Hélène Park, Oscar, Danelle, Matt Robinson, Michael Sielaff, some of the better clown comedians in the recent history of clown comedy! Yes, I know that is a bold statement.

I am the Mushroom King, which was not my choice. The forest anointed me the Mushroom King. I'm wearing all this mushroom gear and I have a mushroom ring on my finger because of the mushrooms, they forced me to do this.

The mushrooms made me become the mushroom king because the humans are crazy and destroying the planet. <Boo Humans> <Boo Humans>

If there was a game of survivor and you could vote one species off of the planet. Every other species would say, get rid of the humans. They’d say, the homosapiens they gotta go.

The mushrooms told me, “Ryan, you gotta get it together, dude, get it together. You have to do comedy. I came back to do comedy, after taking a hiatus from performing, because the mushrooms made me do it.

I decided to perform stand-up again, it wasn’t the right fit. <Boo stand-up>

I decided to perform improv again, it wasn’t the right fit. <Boo improv>

I decided to perform sketch again, it wasn’t the right fit. <Boo sketch>

And then I saw a clown comedy show at the PACK Theater, and whoah it was intriguing. Mind blown. 🤯

I said “wow, this is where it’s going.” This is the only genre of comedy that actually lets us feel and lets us be uncomfortable and lets us build tension and then lets us release tension.

There was a performer, and this person killed his improv troop during the comedy show and had blood all over his hands. I said to myself, “I have wanted to do that. I have wanted to kill my comedy crew."

I would rather be living in the middle of the woods in upstate New York, working at a healing retreat center, doing breathwork meditation. But the mushrooms were like, man, you got to get back into comedy.

I am no longer Ryan Williams, I am the Mushroom King.