Given the choice between writing a five-minute bit and just about anything else, comedian Brad Williams will take the bit.

“It’s the greatest feeling in the world — writing a new joke and having it work,” Williams said.

The stand-up comic will perform at Pikes Peak Center on Sunday night. With two decades of experience, Williams has appeared on “The Tonight Show” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and in films such as “Little Evil,” “Mascots” and “Reno 911!: It’s A Wonderful Heist.”

Williams first considered a career in comedy when he was 19. Attending a stand-up show with his father, the comedian on stage started making jokes about people with dwarfism. Williams, who has achondroplasia, a genetic condition that causes dwarfism, ended up on the stage, answering questions from the comic. His answers were met with laughs — and from there, he was hooked.

“The comedian called me up on stage just to ask me questions, and I answered the questions honestly. I didn’t try and make jokes, but my answers got laughs, and that was that was the first adrenaline needle where I was like, ‘Oh, this feels awesome,’” Williams said.

“I just started going to open mic nights, driving as little as five minutes, and as much as six hours to do three minutes in front of no one, drunks, other open mic comics, whoever.”

What keeps Williams coming back to the mic? It’s almost meditative; when he’s on stage, nothing else matters, he said.

“That’s where my focus is. That’s where all my attention is,” he said. “I’m only worried about what’s happening on stage. And that’s a wonderful, beautiful, simplistic feeling.”

Williams describes his set as mostly autobiographical, covering his personal life, family and whatever he feels like. But, there’s one topic he doesn’t get into.

“I don’t cover politics, because I’m not smart enough to do it,” Williams joked. “So if someone’s worried about coming to my show and hearing a rally that is either for or against whatever side they’re on, they’re not going to hear that.”

Unlike other performers, Williams doesn’t want his audience to leave thinking, “Well, that was good.”

No. Instead the stand-up comedian wants “Wows.” He wants laughs, he wants tears — and everything in between.

“I’m gonna make you go through a whole cavalcade of emotions in the course of an hour and a half,” he said.

“But ultimately, I’m gonna make you leave feeling good and that’s what I want. I want people to go ‘That was worth the babysitter.’”