TOM BALLARD
Tom Ballard is an award-winning stand up comedian/actor/writer/broadcaster. He’s one of Australia’s hottest comic talents, he’s performed and won acclaim all around the world.
In 2009, Tom became the youngest ever recipient of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Best Newcomer Award for his debut hour, Tom Ballard Is What He Is. He was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe for his show Taxis & Rainbows & Hatred, while his 2016 show The World Keeps Happening was nominated for Best Show in both Melbourne and Edinburgh, as well as taking out the 2016 Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer.
He co-hosted the breakfast show on national youth radio station triple j for four years (picking up an ARIA for Best Comedy Release along the way) and then at just 24 years old, he hosted Reality Check: his very own ABC TV panel show dissecting the insane world of reality television. He hosted his own satirical late night show for ABC Comedy, Tonightly with Tom Ballard.
CREDITS
TV
Deadloch
ENOUGH
Patriot Brains
Spicks and Specks
Lockdown Comedy Festival
The Project
Celebrity Mastermind
Celebrity Name Game
Show Me The Movie!
Hughesy We Have a Problem
Tonightly with Tom Ballard
One Night Stan - The World Keeps Happening
Filthy, Rich and Homeless
Behave Yourself
The Project
First Contact
Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle
Sydney Mardi Gras - Live Coverage
Q&A
Fully Furnished
Dirty Laundry Live
Amazon Prime
Paramount+
SBS/Viceland
ABC TV
STAN
Network Ten
SBS
Network Ten
Network Ten
Network Ten
ABC
STAN
SBS
Channel 7
Network Ten
SBS
Comedy Central
SBS
ABC TV
SBS Online
ABC TV
Actor
Performer
Guest
Guest
Performer
Guest
Grandfinalist
Guest
Guest
Guest
Host
Performer
Q&A Host
Guest
Guest Host
Guest
Performer
Co-Host
Host
Co-writer / Actor
Guest
2023
2022
2021
2021
2020
2020
2020
2019
2019
2019-2020
2017-2018
2017
2017
2017
2015-2017
2016
2016
2015-2016
2015
2015
2015
Radio / Podcasts
Salastalgia
Serious Danger with Emerald Moon
Laughscape - Comedy Sleep Stories
Hack
The Little Dum Dum Club
My Favourite Album
What's the Story?
Listen to Love
Breakfast with Rove and Sam
Nazeem Hussain Heals the World
Chatback
Debate Night
Bandcamp Since 1989
Inflight Radio, Smile High Club
triple j breakfast
Weekend Breakfast
Summer Lunch
BBC Radio 4
Podcast
Podcast
triple j
Podcast
Podcast
Audible Podcast
Audible Podcast
2DAY FM
triple j
triple j
triple j
Audio Recording
QRadio Qantas
triple j
triple j
triple j
Stand-up Special
Host
Contributor
Guest
Contributor
Contributor
Host
Host
Guest Co-Host
Guest Host
Host
Host
Performer
Guest Host
Host
Host
Host
2022
2021
2021
2019
2019
2019
2019
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010-2013
2009
2008-2009
Live
It is I
YES/NO
We Are All In This
Grandioloquent
Enough
#KWANDA: A Play
Problematic
Boundless Plains to Share (Return Season)
Boundless Plains to Share
The World Keeps Happening
Taxis & Rainbows & Hatred
Tom Ballard Is What He Is
MICF / Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Adelaide Fringe Festival
MICF / Edinburgh Fringe / Soho Theatre
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
MICF / Edinburgh Fringe Festival / Soho Theatre
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
MICF / Edinburgh Fringe Festival / Soho Theatre
MICF / Edinburgh Fringe Festival / Soho Theatre
MICF / Sydney Comedy Festival
2023
2023
2021
2020
2019
2019
2017
2016
2016
2016
2014-2015
2010-2011
MEDIA
PRESS/AWARDS
Awards:
NOMINEE: MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL - MOST OUTSTANDING SHOW - 2023
WINNER: SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL - BEST AUSTRALIAN SHOW 2017
WINNER: HELPMANN AWARD - BEST COMEDY PERFORMER 2016
NOMINEE: EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL - BEST COMEDY SHOW 2016
NOMINEE: MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL - BEST COMEDY SHOW 2016
NOMINEE: EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL - BEST NEWCOMER 2015
WINNER: MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL - BEST NEWCOMER 2009
Press for It is I:
BRITISH COMEDY GUIDE RECOMMENDED 2023
★★★★★ "A raucous hour"
TIME OUT MELBOURNE
★★★★.5 "Hilarious from start to finish…absolutely flawless…"
CHORTLE
★★★★ "Absolutely packed with elite gags"
THE SCOTSMAN
★★★★ "Another cheerfully explosive hour of affable invective"
THE WEE REVIEW
★★★★
ENTERTAINMENT NOW
★★★★
THE COMIC'S COMIC
★★★★
MERVYN SUTTER'S PICK OF THE FRINGE
Press for Past Shows
★★★★★ "[Ballard’s] material, most importantly, absolutely kills…It’s tightly paced, it’s perfectly delivered and it’s funny as hell…"
TIME OUT SYDNEY
★★★★★ "Hilarious from start to finish…absolutely flawless…"
ADELAIDE ADVERTISER
★★★★ "Engaged, conscientious and consistently, archly funny, Ballard is precisely the sort of political commentator the world needs."
THE SCOTSMAN
★★★★ "Ballard is primed to be at the forefront of a new generation of politically motivated comics, and you couldn’t want for a more dynamic poster boy."
CHORTLE (UK)
★★★★ "Tom Ballard has the Millennial rant down to an art."
THE AGE