Tom Ballard

Tom Ballard is an awardwinning stand up comedianactorwriterbroadcasterperson who always tries his best Hes one of Australias hottest comic talents hes performed and won acclaim all around the world and hes very pleased to meet you In 2009 Tom became the youngest ever recipient of the Melbourne Comedy Festivals Best Newcomer Award for his debut hour Tom Ballard Is What He Is He was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe for his show Taxis Rainbows Hatred while his 2016 show The World Keeps Happening was nominated for Best Show in both Melbourne and Edinburgh as well as taking out the 2016 Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer and the inaugural John Pinder Prize at the Melbourne Comedy Festival The show then went on to be recorded at the Comedy Theatre for Stan Australias One Night Stan series In 2017 Toms show Problematic won the Best Australian Show Award at the Sydney Comedy Festival and was hailed as one of the top three bestreviewed shows at the Edinburgh Fringe that year Hes been invited to perform at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival had soldout seasons at the famous Soho Theatre and has opened for the likes of Wanda Sykes Stephen Merchant and Danny Bhoy He even once roastbattled Jimmy Carr and didnt die in the process Tom also has quite the taste for broadcasting and doing proper satire He cohosted the breakfast show on national youth radio station triple j with his dear friend Alex Dyson for four years A collection of the highlights from that show Tom Alex The Bits Were Least Ashamed Of won the 2013 ARIA for Best Comedy Release At just 24 years old Tom hosted Reality Check his very own ABC TV panel show dissecting the insane world of reality television Hes guest hosted the ABC discussion show QA on multiple occasions interviewed all sorts of political figures on his popular podcast Like Im A SixYearOld featured on the racefocused social experiment series First Contact and for more than 150 episodes hosted his own satirical late night show for ABC Comedy Tonightly with Tom Ballard which was a very naughty show that the conservative Australian government didnt like very much at all You should also know that Tom dropped out of a law degree after six weeks hes very bad at being vegetarian and he suffers from mild eczema Tom is one of the countrys most exciting and insightful voices