Author Archives: Tom
Melbourne Greens Comedy Night June 22nd
Join the Melbourne City branch for a night of hilarity at our major campaign fundraiser for the Melbourne Local Government elections.
Hosted by Tom Ballard and featuring a line-up of award winning and up-and-coming comedians, the night is definitely one you don’t want to miss. We’ll be taking donations and pledges on the night, so dig deep and help us make Melbourne greener & fairer.
Hosted by TOM BALLARD and featuring:
GERALDINE HICKEY
CLAIRE HOOPER
DAVE O’NEIL
GRACE ZHANG
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Bugle Ep. 4304 w/ Andy Zaltman & Josie Long
The Reverse Raymond Briggs
The UK’s most exciting election race of all time is ip and running! The Bugle has an exclusive update.
Plus, gay animals are attacking our children, apparently. Andy is with Josie Long and Tom Ballard.
Weekend Briefing IV w/ Tom Tilley
Checking My Prvilege
Comedy In The West 2024
Good Point Well Made (Melbourne Encore)
My little stand-up show is coming back to Melbourne for one final encore at the brilliant Comedy Republic.
It’s happening on Friday June 21st at 6:30pm.
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Wokey Comedy
GOOD POINT WELL MADE | TOUR 2024
Here she is: my brand new show for 2024, GOOD POINT WELL MADE.
Nominee – The Melbourne Comedy Festival Award 2023
Tom Ballard is undeniably one of Australia’s comedians. That simply cannot be denied.
He returns in 2024 with a brand-new hour of stand up, featuring electric zingers and incredible points being made with expert precision. It’ll make you laugh and cry and laugh and think and laugh again, then it’ll make you gasp and laugh and feel alive and laugh and ponder things and laugh some more.
In 2023, he toured his show IT IS I across Australia and the world. Picking up rave reviews, a Melbourne Comedy Festival Most Outstanding Show nomination, sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe and an invitation to perform alongside Eddie Izzard at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival along the way.
(People even seemed to like the show in England, even though it involved him yelling rude things about the Queen for over half an hour.)
On top of all that, Tom appeared as lovable sweetheart/terrible cop Constable Sven Alderman in the hit Prime Video series Deadloch, cohosted his weekly political podcast Serious Danger, and began the process of cooking up even fresher and gooder jokes about everything that’s going on with the world, etc.
Winner – Best Comedy Performer, Helpmann Award 2016
Winner – Best Local Show, Sydney Comedy Festival 2017
“A raucous performance that is political as it is personal.” ★★★★★ Time Out, 2023
“A relentless whirl of opinion, silliness, and increasingly bad-taste jokes against those who most deserve it.” ★★★★½ Chortle, 2023
“A very strong hour of acerbic comedy with a socialist bent.” ★★★★ The Age, 2023
“Absolutely packed with elite gags” ★★★★ The Scotsman, 2023
“Tom Ballard runs on anger.” The Australian
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