I Interviewed Brad Pitt & Jennifer Aniston 'High As A Motherfucker'

Adelaide muso-cum-comedian Alex Williamson, notorious for his bogan characters the Loosest Aussie Bloke Ever and Musical Drug Dealer on YouTube, is grappling with fame – mainly because he’s yet to experience the ‘rich’ bit of the equation. And he’s riffing off that with his latest show, That Guy From The Internet. “That’s just what everyone says to me: ‘Hey, it’s that guy from the internet!’” Williamson relates, from a borrowed phone, his own being bust. “Believe it or not, there’s very little privacy in my life when I go outside – it’s insane! People come up to me in every capital city and say ‘Hi.’ I think one of the perks of being one of these celebrities in Hollywood is that you have a lot of money and you have big homes in the hills and you’re away from all that. I seem to be recognised as much as some of these people, but I have no money and I have to catch the train and pick up cigarette butts off the ground, so that is a bit embarrassing when fans are seeing you doing that.”

Williamson’s show will again feature him singing “sick” songs. “One’s about how I like to send pictures of my penis to everyone, including my parents, I’m just so proud of it. It goes to a tune that’s just so melodic and so deep and dark and disturbing that even a young mum with their kid in the car would have to turn it up and just listen to the tune – despite the lyrics being about sending cock shots to family members.”

Williamson, a self-described “clown”, proves that you can still be famous without circulating a sex tape. Sure, his YouTube channel Shooter Williamson has a huge number of subscribers, but his success has come through hard graft – and, yep, talent. Growing up in rural Willunga, Williamson taught himself to play guitar and piano. “It was the only thing to do when the power went out when I was a kid.” He completed a degree in filmmaking at Flinders University. Williamson entered the world of stand-up in 2007. Impressed by his interviews of AFL players on, yes, YouTube, Southern Cross Austereo packed him off to Los Angeles – where he (irreverently) covered red carpet events for The Hot Hits Live From LA. “I interviewed Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston and all these people, high as a motherfucker.” Williamson is now settled back in “comfortable” Adelaide – the weed, he claims, was “the main hook”.

Williamson’s comedy plays with the Australian archetype of the politically incorrect bogan (check out his Aussie Sniper spoof). However, international audiences are loving him. When Williamson performed at 2013’s Edinburgh Fringe, The Scotsman’s fierce critic Kate Copstick touted him as “the future of comedy”. “I’m spreading the word of the bogan and the way I’m doing it is people just think Australians are all bogans,” he says.