While Williamson has released some comedy-only collections, he delights in the transitions between the comic and the heartfelt. One of the greatest TV shows. Always will be. And just when you'd had lots of humour, in comes the choppers every time. You've got to have both sides of it.
People enjoy crying too.
Laughter and tears are the same release. Williamson played to the huge Sydney Olympics audience, to giant stadiums, and to pokey clubs. It doesn't matter how many come to the shows, whether it's 1000 or 300. I want them to feel that they're the only person on the other side of the campfire from me. Although intimacy is the aim, to achieve it takes energy.