The Daily Tism

Autism-led satirical news show

Satirical news website The Daily Tism has launched a spoof news show 'by and for' autistic people.

Website founders Sara Gibbs and Elsa Williams have teamed up with production company Turtle Canyon Comedy to create the nine-minute video.

The show, out today, features Abigail Weinstock as the news anchor and is described as 'the perfect excuse for ignoring neurotypical relatives this Christmas'.

Gibbs said: 'The website has grown so fast in the seven months since we launched that we've barely been able to keep up. It was clear there was a huge appetite for more autistic-led comedy, so this is our labour of love for all our fellow evil autistics out there. We hope they find it funny and relatable - and most importantly that they watch it at least 500 times each to self-regulate.

Williams adds: 'To us, a lot of life often feels absurd - so making a sketch show from that perspective just made sense, even though not much else does.'

Shorter sketches are set to be released in the run-up to Christmas, with plans to crowdfund for quarterly episode of the

Stuart Laws, who also directed the episode, said: 'I had read and shared brilliant articles by The Daily Tism, so when they came knocking and asked if I'd be up for working on this show, I looked them just above the eyes so that no one got too uncomfortable and said "absolutely, as long as I can play six characters and they all be heroic with strong jawlines". I settled for playing six characters.'

Grace Jarvis and John Gibbs also star.