A Night with John Williams and Don Biswas

John Williams is an award-winning stand up comedian and author. In 2013 he created ‘My Son’s Not Rainman’, a blog and comedy show based on his life bringing up his twelve year old son who has autism and cerebral palsy. “It isn’t a story about autism”, John is keen to point out, “it’s a story about a young lad who happens to be autistic. There’s a difference.” The show, widely recognised for its humour and poignancy, was a huge success at the Edinburgh Festival and has toured throughout the UK and Europe. John has featured extensively in The Guardian, Daily Mail and on BBC Radio 4. An excerpt from the show recorded for Radio 4 Four Thought was selected as one of the BBC’s Magic Moments of Radio 2015. The accompanying blog has had over a million hits and is the basis for the bestselling book of the same name published in September 2016.

Don Biswas is appalling at writing about himself in the third person. He is brilliant at dance-offs. Don’s unique set combines both razor sharp one-liners, with humour about having Dyspraxia and Asperger’s Syndrome, and the effect it has on people, while coming from a middle class Indian family. Also thrown into the mix are quirky obsevational, political and topical humour. He was winner of the London New Comedy Award in 2010, Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year finalist in 2010, twice the winner of the Comedy Store’s King Gong show, and 6 times winner of the Comedy Cafe’s New Act Night.