Background
Williamson was born on 4 August 1988 in Adelaide, South Australia to parents Paul Williamson and Sharon Cahill.
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He was raised in the town of Willunga and attended Tatachilla Lutheran College.
Career
He is also known for his YouTube comedy videos, many of which he plays the persona of "The Loosest Aussie Bloke", displaying negative bogan stereotypes for comedic value.And he smokesBackground
Williamson later on received a degree in film making at Flinders University. Williamson first began to post videos titled "Alex’s Sweet American Federation of Labor-Congress Dream Team" in 2010, in which he interviewed American Federation of Labor-Congress players for his American Federation of Labor-Congress fantasy team "Loosest Aussie Bloke Ever" was released on 8 February 2012 and has received over 3.2 million views as of 2015.
In December, 2015, the shooterwilliamson YouTube channel had over 520,000 subscribers and the videos have been viewed over 39 million times.
Williamson’s videos have featured Australian hip-hop artists Seth Sentry, Kerser and Eso. Williamson’s other channel, MusicalDrugDealer, features videos of him performing original songs and covers as the persona of "Musical Drug Dealer".
Williamson first became involved with stand-up comedy in 2007. He later on became one of the state finalists in Triple J’s Raw Comedy Award competition in 2009.
His experience with interviewing American Federation of Labor-Congress players for his YouTube channel helped him to break into The Hot Hits Live from Los Angeles, interviewed a-list celebrities at red carpet events.
During this time, Williamson also worked a night shift at SAFM, a local Adelaide radio station, and Barry, an Australian comedy radio station. Williamson sold out at several of these events at multiple venues including the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival, and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Kate Copstick, chief comedy reviewer of The Scotsman newspaper, referred him to as "the future of comedy" at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, although United Kingdom industry comedy website Chortle reviewed his Edinburgh Festival 2015 show as "One of the worst shows I’ve ever seen." Williamson has been in Australian films Beautiful and Red Dog, as well as the comedy show #7DaysLater, which featured a cast of YouTube celebrities.
In 2015, he starred alongside Jim Jefferies and Greg Fleet in Declan Shrubb"s cult-classic Australian zombie comedy film Maine and Maine Mates vs The Zombie Apocalypse, which was partly funded on crowdfunding site Indiegogo.
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