Williams: Photography destroyed stripes can you help me do my homework but Ever since he came to prominence – winning the Perrier (now the Edinburgh Comedy Award) in 1993 – critics have remarked on his on-stage antics. He seems both in his element and yet out of his comfort zone, clowning about as if he had strayed into the limelight by mistake and got caught in some frantic, sweat-drenched bid for survival.