Lefties Up Late: A Fundraiser for the Albury Greens
This’ll be great fun!
Tom Ballard is an award-winning stand up comedian/actor/writer/broadcaster/person/Greens member. He hosted his own late-night comedy show for the ABC, Tonightly with Tom Ballard (which was cancelled for being too funny) and has been seen on everything from Spicks & Specks to The Project to the Melbourne Comedy Festival’s Oxfam Gala.
Since 2021, along with his mate Emerald Moon, Tom’s co-hosted Serious Danger: a podcast about the Greens and green politics in Australia, which is 100% the main reason why the party did so well in the 2022 election.
Don’t miss this chance to join Tom, your local Greens team, more special guests to be announced and contribute to the green-slide in NSW.
Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start.
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Project Spot
YES/NO: A Comedy Lecture About Changing The Country
As well as my stand up show IT IS I, I’ll be performing this brand new load of shouting at MICF 2023 for TWO SHOWS ONLY.
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.
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UberChew
Trash Future Pod LIVE
I got to be on the latest live ep of the Trash Future Pod in Melbourne. It’s such a funny smart show with nice people. You should listen if you don’t already.
Thank you.
BOOK LAUNCH TOUR, BABY
I’m launching my whittle book in MELBOURNE, SYDNEY & BRISBANE and would love you to come along to watch me be all intellectual and shit.
Here’s some hot copy:
The world is in chaos. It’s time for a revolution and “comedian” Tom Ballard is ready to serve as its glorious leader.
After 30 years of his entitled Millennial life, Ballard has had enough of the smashed avocado jokes. He’s furious at the raw deal his generation has been given, and he’s pretty sure things can’t be this crappy because of brunch.
It’s not your imagination: Millennials really have inherited the bill for our current ‘prosperity’, and it sucks. Millennials have been handed a housing crisis, crippling student debt, the gig economy, a cooked planet, a truly broken political system and now a global pandemic, as a treat. For a moment it looked like COVID-19 might radically change things – like housing the homeless and lifting the unemployed out of poverty – but it ended up just making rich ghouls like Gerry Harvey even richer.
In I, Millennial: One Snowflake’s Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else, Ballard unpicks how we got here and why.
MELBOURNE
WHEN: 6:30pm, Wednesday November 30th
WHERE: Easey Street Concert Hall, 35 Easey Street Collingwood
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Osman Faruqi
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SYDNEY
WHEN: 6:30pm, Friday December 2nd
WHERE: Better Read Than Dead, 265 King St, Newtown
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Jan Fran
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BRISBANE
WHEN: 6:30pm, Tuesday December 6th
WHERE: 193 Boundary St, West End QLD 4101
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Emerald Moon
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Work In Progress @ Brunswick Heads
New jokes! By the beach!
After writing a book, filming a TV show, becoming an uncle, surviving the plague and going slightly mad, Tom Ballard is back with a hot new hour – just for you.
Catch a work in progress of Tom’s new stand-up show in Brunswick Heads before it tours the country! One show only.
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2022 Yearly Wrap @ Comedy Republic
WHEN: Wednesday 14 December, 6:45pm
WHERE: Comedy Republic, 231 Bourke Street Melbourne
2022 is almost done! Hosted by Tom Ballard, Comedy Republic’s Yearly Wrap is the definitive deep dive into the year that was.
We’ll be investigating the best, worst, and cursed moments – from the rewarding, to the wretched, and even the damn right ridiculous.
Emma Holland takes a scalpel the pop culture trends that was, Fergus Neal & Dahn Rozario tackle the internet’s atrocities, Jordan Barr provides an unorthodox in memoriam, Pat McCaffrie examines the state of politics, and Gillian Cosgriff adds the cherry on top with a song.
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Chaser Report Interview on “I, Millennial”
Had a great conversation with Dom Knight on The Chaser Report about my forthcoming book and how [***SPOILER ALERT***] capitalism is the problem.