TOMMY DEAN

Raised in Arizona before moving to Australia in 1992, American stand-up star Tommy Dean occupies the top echelons of Australia’s headline comedy artists.

Tommy’s astute observational style and pleasantly soothing drawl consistently make him a standout winner with theatre audiences, corporate clients, festival producers, TV and radio shows alike. With pin-sharp banter, a genial manner, and vast stock of hilarious routines with broad appeal, Tommy interweaves the foibles of his adopted Australia with the dark reality of his home country. Tommy never fails to connect with and impress any audience.

Tommy’s impressive media CV includes appearances on Spicks and Specks, Good News Week, Stand Up Australia, Rove Live, Joker Poker, Sunrise, The Today Show and The Sideshow. Tommy has lived in Sydney long enough to carve out a career that has him consistently booked as the go-to crowd warm-up for ‘smart’ TV shows; including the very popular Q and A, Gruen Planet, Gruen Transfer and the Prime Minister’s Australian of the Year awards ceremony.

Tommy Dean has performed in many of the leading comedy clubs in the USA, performed in New Zealand, North America, Europe and South East Asia and is an in-demand headliner across the Australian live comedy circuit.

Tommy can be heard regularly on ABC 702 radio, where he is a frequent guest on Richard Glover’s Thank God It’s Friday drive show – and an unexpected temporary move back to the US in late 2019 saw Tommy sending in a weekly ‘Letter from America’ for the show, which has proven to be a huge hit with listeners.

This affable, ageless American with the rock god long hair and booming deep drawl is loved by young and old – to watch him find the funny in the mundane along with the bizarre of our day-to-day existences is always an absolute joy.