Tom Gleeson is one of Australia's favourite comedians. Besides his many TV appearances, he’s been nominated for a Helpmann Award three times and won the Piece of Wood Comedian’s Choice Award in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He has performed several times at the two major comedy festivals in Melbourne and Edinburgh, as well as the invite-only Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal and the Kilkenny Comedy Festival in Ireland. He is the comedian that comedians watch.
Current work
Tom regularly tours the country with his live shows, selling out venues in regional towns to the Sydney Opera House... In 2017, he recorded a stand up special as part of the “One Night Stan” series for online streaming service Stan at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne.
Whilst continuing to tour the country with sell out shows, Tom is a regular on our television screens alongside Charlie Pickering and Kitty Flanagan on the award-winning ABC series, The Weekly. Charlie with the help of Kitty and Tom dissect the weeks’ events, and bring you the news with a twist.
Tom’s signature segment on The Weekly “Hard Chat”, where he grills politicians and celebrities, was so popular that the ABC gave him his own quiz show based on the format. Hard Quiz went to air in 2016 on the ABC and was a runaway ratings and critical success. It has returned for its third season in early 2018.
In 2018, Tom has returned with a brand-new show Sure Thing. He continues to be the must-see act at comedy festivals in every Australian city.
Previous experience
International: Tom has also performed extensively overseas in cities such as London, Dublin, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Hong Kong, Jakarta as well as entertaining the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.