Some of you will have seen me talk in the past about a site called The Daily Tism, a satirical news site by and for autistic people which is run by some friends of mine, and which I’ve written the odd piece for. (Perhaps you haven’t, in which case I’ll say again now, if you’re autistic yourself and/or you like really funny satirical news articles, you should head to http://thedailytism.com and read their stuff, and then go and back their Patreon at https://patreon.com/thedailytism ).
Well, a little under a year ago I was chatting with my friend Sara Gibbs, one of the co-runners of that site, who is an amazing comedy writer who’s written for all sorts of TV and radio stuff (if you’re in Britain you’ll undoubtedly have heard or seen her work — she’s had credits on The Now Show, The News Quiz, The Mash Report, Have I Got News For You, Dead Ringers, and many more, though now she concentrates on The Daily Tism), and we were talking about how much we enjoy things that really use the potential of the audio medium. When it’s done well there’s nothing like it in the world.
Anyway, we talked, and Sara said “What I’d really like to do is this” and I said “ooh yes… and you could do this!” Sara said “Oh yes, and if I did that then I could do this as well!” and I replied “and then you could…” and soon by bouncing ideas off each other we’d come up with the concept for a really, really, interesting show.
Sara, being the comedy writer in the conversation, then went off and made it a reality. She worked for months and turned that basic idea we’d had together into a fully-fleshed out eight-episode sitcom, writing eight wonderful scripts and creating some fabulous characters and a whole world for them to live in, and rounded up an incredible cast and crew, to create the world’s first (we think this is a first something, for once!) sitcom by and for autistic people. She’s done an amazing job and created something very very special here.
We’ve also got some very surprising celebrity guests making cameos, whose names have been announced to The Daily Tism’s backers if you’re curious, but who we’re otherwise keeping a surprise for now.
The show stars The Daily Tism co-editor Sarah Amero (voicing two characters), Alasdair Beckett-King, John Butler, The Daily Tism writer Guy Kelly, Stuart Laws, Georgia Mackenzie, Lizzie Schenk and Abigail Weinstock, with appearances by Gabby Hutchinson-Crouch and Grace Jarvis, and is produced by Sara Gibbs with Hare Lockwood and Sarah Amero, and directed by Sara Gibbs with Sarah Amero.
