Liam Williams

Liam Williams (born March 1988) is an English comedian, actor and writer, known for his wry poetic presentation style. He grew up in Leeds and studied English at Homerton College at the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of Footlights. In 2010 he was the runner-up in the So You Think You're Funny competition at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and in 2013 he appeared as the guest stand-up on Russell Howard's Good News before performing his first solo show at the Edinburgh Fringe, where he was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. His 2014 show Capitalism was nominated for Best Show at the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards.

Williams was a member of the comedy sketch group Sheeps alongside Daran Johnson and Alastair Roberts. He wrote and presented the semi-autobiographical BBC Radio 4 series Ladhood, which began in 2015, and co-created the web series 2016: Year Friends. In 2017 he wrote and starred in the BBC Three web mockumentary Pls Like, playing a struggling comedian who wins a contest to become a superstar megavlogger, a show renewed for further series broadcast in 2018 and 2021. He performed a full one-hour set for Live from the BBC, made available on Netflix in July 2018.

As an actor, Williams appeared in This Time with Alan Partridge as a hacktivist, played Nathan in the BBC series Back to Life starring Daisy Haggard, and featured in Friday Night Dinner, Stath Lets Flats and Everyone Else Burns. He adapted Ladhood for television, with the first series released on BBC iPlayer on 24 November 2019 and the third and final series released in September 2022. Williams released his debut novel, Homes and Experiences, in 2020. He supports Manchester United.