Funny Women: How does it feel to win the Content Creator Award?
Chanel Williams: Oh, I was so honoured just to be nominated, especially when the category this year and last have been full of such brilliant, funny people but more than that it’s just nice to know that people like the content. Just giving strangers on the internet a bit of silly, fun nonsense they can chuckle at makes me really happy and to win was such a lovely way to commend that I think. It’s been such a crazy couple of years and stumbling into this has been the happiest accident.
FW: Tell us about the kind of content you share.
CW: I share parody content, short form stuff, ‘life lessons I learned the hard way so you don’t have to’ sort of things. I just really like telling a story whether it’s something from my past or it’s a retelling of familiar ones and I’m having the most fun doing it!
FW: How did you get started as a content creator?
CW: I think the same as most in lockdown, out of sheer boredom. I deleted the app several times before I started posting on it because it wasn’t for me but I had an amazing job opportunity fall through and in the midst of stressing about that, trying to find a new job and sheltering from covid making content became a real escape for me, and then for others too which was really nice to read in the comment sections.
FW: What makes for good content?
CW: It has to be what you enjoy making and make you laugh first. And really the topic could be anything because everything is funny in one way or another. Relatable or ironically unrelatable things are always a lovely escape, something to nod along with cackling because you do that or to silent laugh in astonishment because ‘what are people like’. Social media content may be short form but it’s wild how far of a journey you can take the viewer in 30-60 seconds!
FW: And lastly, who are your favourite comedians?
CW: So many brilliant upcoming comedians I could list but the people I need to credit for shaping my humour and never failing to make me laugh was definitely French and Saunders. Their parodies were what got me into content creation in the first place. Catherine Tate needs an honourable mention too and Victoria Wood. I couldn’t get enough of them growing up.
