A shocking video has emerged on social media of the moment popular Australian comedian Alex ‘Shooter’ Williamson was punched in the face by a belligerent member of the audience during a live show.
The incident took place when Williamson was performing at Allenstown Hotel in Rockhampton on Tuesday as part of a his national tour, Oi Mate.
The video shows the man heckling Williamson before the comedian had enough and tipped his beer over the man’s head. The footage then shows the man walking up to the stage and punching Williamson square in the face.
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Williamson took to social media to share the video and shared another video of himself sporting a black eye explaining what happened at the show to his IG stories.
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“He was fucking yelling out incessantly. For the first five times in a row I just took it and then I was like ‘No you are going to have to be quiet now, I am going to ask you to leave’,” Alex said.
“I turned to the manager and said ‘You own this place don’t you? Where’s security? Let’s get this guy out’. And then he goes ‘Yeah that’s what your mum said’.”
Wiliamson then poured his beer on the man’s head and attempted to get on with his show.
“And that’s when he comes up on stage and I thought ‘oh he’s just gonna pour his beer back on my head, that’s only fair’.
“So, I offered the mic as kind of a … peace offering like there’s the mic you wanted to say something so bad you lame cunt there you go.
“I figured if he was going to try and pour his beer on my head I was going to try and drink it as he poured but he went with the cheeky left and the cunt got me.”
Williamson was the former radio present for The Hot Hits Live from LA and has since risen to fame after first performing stand up comedy in 2007. His Youtube channel has had over 92 million views and has 665,000 subscribers. His Instagram account currently has 504,000 followers and the violent video has gone viral, racking up over 302,000 view as of now.
