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hello there! my name’s tom ballard and i’m an australian comedian just trying to find his way in this big bad world.

welcome to my website. here you can find out a little bit more about me, check out any upcoming gigs i may have, sign up to the mailing list and just generally have a good time. if at any point you feel bored or disinterested in this site’s content and would prefer the excitement and giddy thrills of youtube or online pornography, i suggest opening some new tabs and having the best of both worlds.

cheers,

tom

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Doing Stuff in 2012: Adelaide, Brisbane & Melbourne

My 2012 stand-up show is entitled Doing Stuff. I would bloody well love you to come along to see it if you can.

It is a show about political happenings and trying to make a difference in the world but it is not going to be preachy or anything like that.

 

 

 

ADELAIDE

Tues Feb 21st – Sat 25th @ Rhino Room Upstairs. Tickets here.

BRISBANE

Tues March 6th – Sun 11th @ The Brisbane Powerhouse. Tickets here.

MELBOURNE

Thurs March 29th – Sun April 22nd @ The Swiss House. Tickets here.

I Am “Kewl”

Ok.

So we had the brilliant Matt Corby on our radio show for Like A Version and it was very very good and you can listen to it here if you so wish.

You really should. It was killer.

After all the chatting/music business, as is tradition, Matt, Alex and myself took a photo together to mark the lovely occasion. I noticed that Matt had brought his sunglasses into the studio. Simply for a bit of colour and movement, for a bit of amusement, for a bit of joy de vivre, for a bit of zAnY KOH-medy, I incorporated said sunglasses into said photo.

 

 

Normally I look super hot and buff and cute and funny in these photos, but in this instance, positioned only a few centimetres from one of the most handsome and talented people we’ve ever had on the show, I appear to be an amateur magic enthusiast from the 90s who has been photoshopped into a photo with two nice people smiling normally.

Upon seeing this photo and my cringe-inducing pose, triple j lunch presenter and Cronulla resident Lewi McKirdy remarked:

“Wow, Ballard; looking pretty kewl!”

Then he made this:

 

 

and this:

 

 

 

and this (from the red carpet of The Kewl Awards):

 

 

 

 

Then shit got real. Other triple j employees – WHO GET PAID WITH YOUR TAXES TO GET SOME FUCKING WORK DONE – had their respective cracks:

 

 

 

(Courtesy of Max Lavergne, in tribute to the Super Mario Bros. movie)

 

 

 

(Courtesy of Lindsay “The Doctor” McDougall, whose punk band was very popular in the 90s, which is really quite a while ago now)

 

 

 

 

(Both courtesy of Nina Las Vegas, who should be concentrating on mixing other people’s songs into other people’s songs)

Then some genius opened it up to the triple j listeners via Facebook.

Here are some of my favourites:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can check out all the submission in this album on the triple j FB page. There are heaps.

Stay kewl, everyone.