Paul Williams

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Assistant

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Actor, presenter

Biography

Paul Anthony Williams (born 7 August 1992) is a New Zealand comedian and musician. He plays the role of the Taskmaster's assistant on the New Zealand version of the international television series Taskmaster, and is one of the show's principal writers. His brother Guy, who is also a comedian, was a contestant on the first season of the show.

His comedy show Summertime Love, presented as a mock dating seminar, went on tour through New Zealand and to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He was nominated for the Billy T Award for the country's best newcomer in 2017. Since 2017, he has co-hosted the basketball-themed Advanced Analytics NBA Podcast with his brother, Guy.

As a musician, he released some early albums of comedy and parody, before moving on to writing and performing original songs. In a 2014 radio interview with The Edge, New Zealand singer Lorde said that Williams was her favourite performer.

He has released several albums of his own songs, including the EPs Songs about Girls (2014) and Jungle River Adventure (2015). His full-length album Surf Music (2018) was described as "an excellent, earnest piece of pop music that feels individual and unique [...] funny because Williams is funny, not because it needs to be". Euroleague, the 7th track on the album, was featured as soundtrack for James Acaster's stand up tour and comedy special Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999.

[Source: Wikipedia, 15/02/2022.]