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Nationality
  
English

Name
  
Tom Parry

Website
  
twitter.com/tomosp

Role
  
Comedian


Medium
  
Stand-up, television, radio

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

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Biography

Parry is co-creator of the BBC Three sitcom Badults.

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.

UK television channel Dave included Tom Parry in 'Dave's Top 10 Funniest Jokes from the Fringe Festival 2015'. 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.

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)
  • 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)
  • Badults (2013–14)

    • References

    Tom Parry (comedian) Wikipedia
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