Tom Parry (comedian)

Tom Parry
Medium	Stand-up, television, radio
Nationality	English
Website	twitter.com/tomosp

Tom Parry is an English comedian, writer and actor.^[1] He was a founder member of sketch troupe, Pappy's.^[2]

Biography

Parry is co-creator of the BBC Three sitcom Badults.^[3]

In August 2015, Parry took his first solo show Yellow T-shirt, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The show was nominated for the best newcomer award in the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards and received 4 star reviews in The Guardian, The List, Chortle and The Independent.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

UK television channel Dave included Tom Parry in 'Dave's Top 10 Funniest Jokes from the Fringe Festival 2015'.^[9] From a 50-joke shortlist created by an panel of expert judges, 2000 British people rated Parry's joke the 7th funniest:

Red sky at night: shepherd’s delight. Blue sky at night: day.^[10]

Television appearances

• Comedy Cuts Series 3: Pappy's Fun Club Tough Gig – ITV2
• Comedy Lab Pappy's Fun Club – Channel 4
• M.H. Rowley (2008)^[11]
• The Culture Show – BBC Two
• Miranda (2010)
• Robert's Web (2010)
• PhoneShop (2011)
• Show & Tell (2011)
• Watson & Oliver (2012)
• Great Movie Mistakes – BBC Three (Dec 2013)
• Badults – BBC Three (2013–14)

Writing

• Comedy Lab (2008)
• M.H. Rowley (2008)
• Great Movie Mistakes 2: The Sequel (2011)
• Olivia Lee: Dirty, Sexy, Funny (2011)
• Great Movie Mistakes III: Not in 3D (2011)^[12]
• Badults (2013–14)

References

1. "Tom Parry". troikatalent.com. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
2. Trueman, Matt (18 August 2014). "Sketchy situations: when comedy troupes split up". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
3. "Badults (2013– )". IMDB. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
4. "Best Newcomers". Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
5. Logan, Brian (11 August 2015). "Tom Parry at Edinburgh festival review – soul-nourishing silliness". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
6. Black, Suzanne (10 August 2015). "Tom Parry: Yellow T-Shirt". The List. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
7. Bennett, Steve (14 August 2015). "Tom Parry: Yellow T-shirt". Chortle. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
8. Jones, Alice (25 August 2015). "Tom Parry, Edinburgh Fringe review: Pappy's and Badults star makes a gloriously silly stand-up debut". The Independent. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
9. "Dave's Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2015". Dave. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
10. "Hippos, custard and tapas: the 10 funniest jokes of the Edinburgh fringe". The Guardian. 25 August 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
11. "M.H. Rowley (2008)". IMDB. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
12. "Great Movie Mistakes". BBC. Retrieved 18 August 2015.

External links

• Tom Parry on Twitter
• Tom Parry at the Internet Movie Database
• Pappy's official website