My little friends from Tonightly and I are popping on a show to raise money for the homelessness charity The Haymarket Foundation.

It’s going to be a fun and stupid night of entertainment for a great cause.

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This gig is going to be bananas! An amazing line-up for a brilliant cause, helping Animal Asia‘s Moon Bear Rescue.

I understand tickets are pricey, but if you can afford them and fancy a big fat funny night out to make the world a better place, fully get into it.

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Hello.

This past week has been the roughest of my life. I’m happy to be starting a new one.

I’m fully aware that for some people, there is nothing that I can say or do that will change their perception of me or what they believe I may have done. I have accepted that. I have nothing more to say about the matter itself: everything I’ve wanted to say has been said in my original statement, here.

Tonightly will return for its second season tonight. Getting to host this show alongside a team of smart, funny and lovely people has been the highlight of my career. I love doing it, I’m proud of the work we’ve done and I am so excited about getting stuck into the business of telling dumb jokes for you again.

I think it’s important to make something clear: we’re determined to keep making the show that we want to make. We will keep making jokes that we think are funny and (sometimes) important. We will joke about what’s happening in the world, from the trivial to the deadly serious, including stories that involve sexual misconduct and the #MeToo movement. We will keep making fun of ourselves, politics, society and the shitty things that human beings say and do. We’ll keep sharing what we think is funny and we’ll keep hoping you find it funny too. Tonightly, after all, belongs to you.

Again, I reiterate that I abhor sexual violence. Absolutely no one should have to deal with sexual harassment or assault and like every other decent person in the world, I want to help in any way I can to make things better.

If you need help, you can call the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service on 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732). For help or information regarding mental health you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636.

If you have some spare cash you can donate to Rape & Domestic Violence Services Australia here.

Thank you for reading this. I’m now going to get on with living my life and doing my silly job.

Tom

Hello.

As a comedian, I am no fan of being taken seriously. But today is an exception. This is an extremely difficult statement for me to write, but it’s necessary.

Over the past six months I have become aware of a claim being made about me. It involves an allegation of sexual assault: an allegation that I completely deny in the strongest terms possible. It fundamentally goes against who I am as a person and everything I believe in. Today that claim was aired publicly.

Four years ago I had a consensual sexual experience with someone. I had absolutely no idea he believed it wasn’t consensual until six months ago. His version of that experience as described on social media is simply not what happened.

This false claim has been spread via social media, text messages and gossip. It has been deeply distressing for me, my friends and my family. It has affected my work and my mental health.

I abhor sexual assault and sexual violence. I absolutely support the philosophy of the #MeToo movement: I believe in supporting victims and ensuring those who have done wrong face justice. But I have not done anything wrong. Any suggestion otherwise is false, deeply distressing and unhelpful.

Thank you for reading this.

Tom

(According to Miranda Devine. And Greg Larsen.)