Kortney Shane Williams is an international touring comedian. He started his comedy career while attending The University of South Florida in Tampa, FL. Shortly thereafter he dropped the books for jokes and ended up in Seattle, Washington, where he honed his craft.

He has been a part of the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy Festival, World Series of Comedy, Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, and Bumbershoot Arts Festival. Kortney’s self-deprecating humor has won him finalist spots in both Comedy Central’s South Beach Comedy Festival Competition and NBC’s Stand-Up Showcase.

Kortney has opened for Dave Chappelle, Hannibal Buress, and David Alan Grier and has appeared on seasons 1 & 3 of Laughs TV on Fox, Fusion Television, Comedy Time at the Icehouse, and The 206 on NBC. He’s also been featured on Yahoo and FoxSports.com as a comedy blogger.

His new comedy special, Unsubstantiated, is streaming on the Dry Bar Comedy network, and his latest comedy album, To Whom It Doesn’t Concern, is available now on Apple Music, Amazon, and Tidal. He can also be heard on Spotify, Pandora, and on his weekly podcast, Kortney’s Last Show Podcast, which is available on iTunes.

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