{"id":269216,"date":"2019-03-12T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1022919"},"modified":"2019-03-12T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T21:00:00","slug":"see-will-smith-face-his-fear-of-doing-stand-up-comedy-on-upcoming-facebook-watch-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/see-will-smith-face-his-fear-of-doing-stand-up-comedy-on-upcoming-facebook-watch-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"See Will Smith Face His Fear of Doing Stand-Up Comedy on Upcoming Facebook Watch Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"45.109793814433\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201887\/rs_634x1024-180907152321-Will-Smith-.gif?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Will Smith\" alt=\"Will Smith\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"32.003125\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/will_smith\">Will Smith<\/a><\/strong> is living his best life, and his new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/willsmithsbucketlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Watch show<\/a>, <em>Will Smith&#8217;s Bucket List<\/em>, is proof.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from embarking on daring adventures and overcoming many obstacles on his documentary-style&nbsp;series, the 50-year-old actor is diving into a new arena: stand-up comedy.<\/p>\n<p>In Smith&#8217;s upcoming episode, which airs on Wednesdays, the <em>Aladdin<\/em> star surprisingly admits he&#8217;s &#8220;never done stand-up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To help him&nbsp;out, the legendary actor enlists none other than&nbsp;<strong>Dave Chappelle<\/strong>&nbsp;to be his mentor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You call your brother, I come running, man,&#8221; Chappelle tells the <em>Suicide Squad<\/em> star in an exclusive clip shared with E! News. &#8220;I appreciate you,&#8221; Smith says.<\/p>\n<p>He explains the reason he wants to experience stand-up comedy is because it&#8217;s something he hasn&#8217;t done. Adding, &#8220;I&#8217;ve never used my life to create material to try to make people laugh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But before Will starts spilling his life story in front of an audience, the 45-year-old comedian shares a bit of wisdom.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>&#8220;The first thing I&#8217;ll tell you is confidence is key,&#8221; the<em>&nbsp;A Star Is Born<\/em> actor explains. &#8220;The reason you should be confident is because, primarily, you&#8217;re Will Smith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"html-external-3\" data-type=\"async\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"35.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-html-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>While not too many details are shared in the short video clip above, it seems Will is ready to take on the challenge&nbsp;of performing&nbsp;in front of a live audience.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of the actor&#8217;s Facebook Watch show know&nbsp;Smith is fearless when it comes to trying new things. On the series, he&#8217;s&nbsp;jumped from an airplane and has swam with sharks (!!!). However, doing stand-up comedy was&nbsp;his scariest adventure yet, according to a press release sent to E! News.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"49.611111111111\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3.4814814814815\">\n<p>To see what the <em>Aladdin<\/em> star does with his comedy skills, see his new episode on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/willsmithsbucketlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Watch<\/a> on March 13.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1022919\/see-will-smith-face-his-fear-of-doing-stand-up-comedy-on-upcoming-facebook-watch-episode?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram Will Smith is living his best life, and his new Facebook Watch show, Will Smith&#8217;s Bucket List, is proof. Aside from embarking on daring adventures and overcoming many obstacles on his documentary-style&nbsp;series, the 50-year-old actor is diving into a new arena: stand-up comedy. In Smith&#8217;s upcoming episode, which airs on Wednesdays, the Aladdin star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-269216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 14:57:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}