Setback Survivors w/ Dr Ed & Toya | Shuler King

Today on Setback Survivors our special guest is Shuler King, Born Frank Williams III.  Comedian Shuler King was raised in a household strongly based on religion and education.

The influence of his parents as well as his harsh surroundings gave him his own perspective on his life, his country, and the troubles of his people. The style of the young comedian is RAW, plain and simple. “I give it to the audience the same way life gives it to me. I pull no punches on stage, that is what I am most comfortable with and the people love it.”

“People think comedy is about just being happy, comedy is more about pain than anything else. You can see 20,000 people in one place laugh at the same joke because they have the same pain.”

Throughout his youth Shuler King was known as the one with all the jokes, despite all of his personal obstacles. By the time Shuler was in middle school most on his friends sold drugs. “My parents worked hard to keep myself and my two siblings on the right track, as best as they could.”

Coming out of high school Shuler never wanted to go to college, because he felt he wouldn’t get accepted anywhere. ” I was smart, but I never applied it in school.  To the surprise of many, Shuler ended up attending and graduating from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media Arts in 2007.  

In 2013 Shuler King graduated from Gupton Jones Mortuary College with a degree in Mortuary Science. That decision was made to help continue the  family legacy at Williams Funeral Home Inc. Shuler is now permanently booked for the Capital City Ques All Black and All White Affair at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, SC. Tune in to this exciting show.