Gits & Shiggles Comedy - Tom Ballard & more tbc
Tom Ballard
Entry Requirements: 18+ after 7pm
Gits and Shiggles is one of London's best comedy nights, organising events throughout the capital as well as their residency at The Half Moon, Putney.
Bringing you the best in emerging, established and alternative stand-up, sketch, musical, character and improv comedy, acts performing at past and future events include Stewart Lee, Sara Pascoe, Harry Hill, Jack Whitehall, Aisling Bea, Dara O’ Briain, Jack Dee, Reginald D. Hunter, James Acaster, Nish Kumar, Kerry Godliman, Josh Widdicombe, Ed Gamble, Rob Delaney, Seann Walsh, Shaparak Khorsandi, Sean Hughes, Tom Allen, Nina Conti, Mark Steel, Andy Parsons, Phil Wang, Rob Newman, Zoe Lyons, Bridget Christie, Katherine Ryan, Rob Beckett, Henning Wehn, Brett Goldstein, Alistair McGowan, Jenny Eclair, Rich Hall etc etc.
"Awesome comedy night... If you haven't been yet, go. They've got chairs and everything" - Rich Fulcher, The Mighty Boosh
"Ace line-ups picked by true comedy connoisseurs" - Time Out
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Tom Ballard is an award-winning stand up comedian/actor/writer/broadcaster/person who always tries his best. He’s one of Australia’s hottest comic talents, he’s performed and won acclaim all around the world and he’s very pleased to meet you.
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. The show then went on to be recorded at the Comedy Theatre for Stan Australia’s One Night Stan series: you can watch that here.
In 2017 Tom’s show Problematic won the Best Australian Show Award at the Sydney Comedy Festival and was hailed as one of the top three best-reviewed shows at the Edinburgh Fringe that year. He’s been invited to perform at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, had sold-out seasons at the famous Soho Theatre and has opened for the likes of Wanda Sykes, Stephen Merchant and Danny Bhoy.
He even once roast-battled Jimmy Carr and didn’t die in the process.
