Serious Danger LIVE in Brisbane
Excited to announce that my filthy vulgar Leftist podcast about The Greens will be live on stage in Brisbane in May!
It’s happening on Sunday May 21st at 2pm at the brilliant Good Chat Comedy Club, with brilliant guests.
Come join comrades TOM BALLARD and EMERALD MOON for this special Greensland live edition of their podcast about Australia’s broken political system and its biggest threat: the Australian Greens.
There’ll be laffs with award-winning comic GERALDINE HICKEY and Greens member for Griffith MAX CHANDLER-MATHER will help us celebrate the one-year anniversary of the break-through 2022 election. Good stuff!
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IT IS I 2023 Tour
My new stand up show is called IT IS I and I’m talking it all over the joint in 2023.
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.
“Brave, biting, ballsy and ultimately, brilliant.” ★★★★★ Time Out
“An absolute comedy masterclass.” ★★★★★ Beat Magazine
“Has a frankly ridiculous ability to hit all his marks and deftly detonate every punchline.” ★★★★½ The Age
“Unrelenting and uproarious.” ★★★★½ Chortle
“Much of his stand-up is about as funny as listening to a recording of one of Joe Stalin’s four-hour rants.” Gerard Henderson, The Australian
“[The audience’s] laughter was to Ballard’s jokes what applause and chants are at a Trump rally.” Holly Lawford-Smith
Book here!
10 Funniest Things I Have Ever Seen (On The Internet)
STAND UP FOR REFUGEES: A BENEFIT FOR THE ASRC
For more than 20 years, the good eggs at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in Footscray have been providing material and legal support for people seeking asylum and refugees, as well as exposing and fighting back against Australia’s cruel immigration policies. They’re real good.
Now, thanks to crappy inflation and a surge in demand for their services over the pandemic, these folks are in a spot of bother – and we figure the least we can do is raise them an absolute sh*tload of cash with the power of jokes.
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 during this financially critical time.
Co-hosted by Wil Anderson & Tom Ballard.
Get in quick – this will sell out.
You can donate directly to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre via this link.
Kindly supported by Melbourne International Comedy Festival
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Jacobin Article on “I, Millennial”
I had a chat to my mate Daniel Lopez at Jacobin Australia about my book and being a Millennial socialist.
259 – Polly Hemming
Polly Hemming is a Senior Researcher at The Australia Institute’s Climate & Energy Program.
Just this week she was giving evidence to a Parliamentary committee on the Labor Party’s signature climate policy, the “Safeguard Mechanism” – which, I’m sorry to say, stinks. It stinks real bad.
Here Polly lays out exactly just how much of a mess this policy is: how it’s not designed to reduce emissions that are cooking the planet, but rather protect the profits and interests of the fossil fuel lobby. We also discuss the DEEPLY dodgy world of carbon offsets and the marketisation of the natural world, and wonder how this whole thing is going to play out politically.
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I’m currently touring my new stand up show IT IS I all over the country: ADELAIDE | GOLD COAST | CANBERRA | MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | CAIRNS | TOOWOOMBA | BRISBANE
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I’m doing just 2 shows of my comedy lecture YES/NO at the Melbourne Comedy Festival – BOOK HERE
Polly’s speech, “What is Climate Integrity?”
The Great Stock’n’Coal Swindle by Nick Feik
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My Comedy Is Too Damn Loud
Horny Assumptions About Dating An Acrobat
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.