Artists and Comedians
Tom Ballard
In 2009 Tom Ballard became the youngest person to ever win the Melbourne International Comedy Festival´s Best Newcomer Award for his debut stand up show. The following year he took a seat behind the microphone as the youngest ever host of the breakfast show on triple j and now, five years on, he´s a relative comedy veteran with sold out shows and national tours to his name.
Tom´s been seen on The Project, This Week Live, Can Of Worms, Spicks and Specks, Good News Week, The Melbourne Comedy Festival Oxfam Gala and It’s A Date. In 2013, after he and his on-air comrade Alex Dyson took out the ARIA for Best Comedy Release, Ballard decided to hang up the headphones to focus on his two biggest loves: stand up and sleeping.
In 2014 Tom fronted the coverage of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras for SBS 2 and hosted his very own show for ABC TV, Reality Check – a show dedicated to celebrating (and taking the piss out of) the insane inner workings of reality television.
2015 saw Tom host Q&A on the ABC, roast Jimmy Carr at the invitational-only Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal and be nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
