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

Tickets for shows in ADELAIDE | ORANGE | HOBART | LAUNCESTON | CANBERRA | WARRNAMBOOL | MELBOURNE | BRISBANE | PERTH | BRUNSWICK HEADS | NEWCASTLE | SYDNEY are now on sale.

 

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BALLARD & HING

Two friends. One show. Many jokes.

Join former triple j employees and funny nerds Tom Ballard (DeadlochSerious Danger, homosexual) and Michael Hing (The ProjectDragon Friends, Chinese) as they share a stage in a tent in Adelaide and make you laugh about everything from politics to culture to their own pathetic lives.

Don’t miss out – when these two crazy guys get together, literally ANYTHING could happen!!!

(They’ll probably just do stand-up comedy.)

“[Ballard delivers] a raucous performance that is political as it is personal.” ★★★★★ Time Out, 2023

“You’ll find yourself cheering on Michael Hing through tears of laughter.” ★★★★½ Sydney Morning Herald, 2023

 

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STAND UP FOR REFUGEES 2024

 

It’s happening again!

After a total sell-out show that raised buckets of cash for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s 2023 Emergency Appeal, co-hosts Wil Anderson and Tom Ballard are back to do it all again this Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Don’t miss this special night of A-grade comedy excellence, featuring a super-awesome-super-secret line-up of the very best comedians performing at this year’s Festival, all of them donating their time and talents to support the ASRC’s work: providing material and legal assistance to people seeking asylum and refugees and fighting back against Australia’s cruel immigration policies.

Last year the benefit featured the likes of Anne Edmonds, Daniel Kitson, Geraldine Hickey, David O’Doherty, Sam Pang and more. The only way to find who’s taking to the stage this time around is grab yourself a ticket!

So come along and laugh good, feel good and do some good.

Co-hosted by Wil Anderson & Tom Ballard.

You can donate directly to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre via this link.

Kindly supported by Melbourne International Comedy Festival

 

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LIVE TAPING @ THE CORNER HOTEL, MELBOURNE

Hey Melbourne friends, here’s a chance for you to come see me and my old mate Dilruk Jayasinha telling some jokes in front of cameras at the lovely Corner Hotel in Richmond.

It’s all happening on MONDAY DECEMBER 4th.

Dil will be filming his hit show Heartstopper at 6pm (book tickets here), then you can see me at 8:30pm doing this:

NOMINEE: Most Outstanding Show, Melbourne Comedy Festival 2023

As seen on Amazon Prime’s Deadloch.

Come see one of the country’s hottest comedians (not physically) yelling, laughing and crying about the state of the world, in front of nice fancy cameras.

Please note, this performance will be filmed.

“A raucous performance that is political as it is personal.” ★★★★★ Time Out
“An endless hour of laughs.” ★★★★★ Out In Perth
“A relentless whirl of opinion, silliness, and increasingly bad-taste jokes against those who most deserve it.” ★★★★½ Chortle
“[Ballard] has a frankly ridiculous ability to hit all his marks and deftly detonate every punchline.” ★★★★½ The Age

 

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The 2023 Green Left Weekly Comedy Debate

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The annual green left comedy debate returns with award-winning comedian Tom Ballard as masters of ceremonies.

Line-up of comedians include Fiona Scott-Norman, Helchild, Jack Brady, Nicky Barry, Sean Bedlam, Shiralee Hood.

Friday November 10th, 6:30pm
Fitzroy Town Hall, 201 Napier St Fitzroy VIC

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Serious Danger LIVE in Melbourne!

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“I’ve always considered the Greens to be a real, serious danger to Australia” – former Prime Minister Scott Morrison

ATTENTION ALL COMRADES, DANGERHEADS & DANGER DOGS

You’re invited to join dirty woke hippies EMERALD MOON and TOM BALLARD as they celebrate the 100th episode of Serious Danger: their smash-hit-funny-and-smart podcast about our broken political system and its greatest threat, the Australian Greens.

There’ll be laughter, joy, insightful political analysis, super-special guests (TBA soon!) and some puerile name-calling, all of it live onstage and in 3D.

Don’t miss your chance to experience the show that extremely normal YouTuber friendlyjordies described as “Chapo Shit House”.

Saturday 18 November, 5:00pm @ Comedy Republic, 231 Bourke St Melbourne 

 

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YES/NO Tour 2023

 

Ahead of the upcoming referendum on the First Nations Voice to Parliament in October, I’m touring my comedy lecture about our stupid constitution this spring.

For the first time since 1999, the Australian people will soon be asked to vote on changing our constitution.

The last time we said “Yes” was more than 45 years ago.

Join Year 11 Legal Studies graduate and university law dropout Tom Ballard as he deploys jokes and funny pictures to blast through the history of Australian referenda and to ask the big questions: What the hell is wrong with us? Why are we so afraid of change? Why does our constitution suck so hard? Should we just start this whole thing again, please?

Don’t miss out on the limited run of this special comedy event – these shows will sell out.

As seen on Tonightly with Tom Ballard.

First Nations people are advised this show may contain the names and images of people who have died.  

 

CANBERRA: SATURDAY SEPT. 23rd

MELBOURNE: WEDNESDAY OCT. 4th – SUN OCT. 8th (as part of Melbourne Fringe)

SYDNEY: TUESDAY OCT. 10th

 

Details & Tickets here