Tommy Dassalo
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| File:Little Dum Dum podcast Nick Cody's birthday group shot 2013.jpg
Dassalo second from left at live recording of The Little Dum Dum Club Hawthorn May 2013
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| Born | Thomas Howard Alsop 28 August 1986 Malvern, Australia |
| Website | www.tommydassalo.com |
Tommy Dassalo (born Thomas Howard Alsop) is a comedian, writer and actor based in Melbourne, Australia. He co-hosts "The Little Dum Dum Club", a comedy podcast with Karl Chandler.[1]
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Early life
Born in 1986, Tommy was raised in the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne. He was an only child. When he was young he was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a rare bone marrow disease. This became the subject of his one-man stand-up show ""Pipsqueak" in 2012.[2]
Career
Tommy has worked as a professional stand-up comedian, as a writer for television and as an actor.[3] In October 2010[4] Tommy and his best friend Karl Chandler began recording a weekly comedy podcast, "The Little Dum Dum Club" in an effort to lift the profiles of fellow comedians above their own. Notable successes and people "Aware of the show" include Ronny Chieng and Dilruk Jayasinha. He is currently the host of "Filthy Casuals", a video-game themed comedy podcast, featuring Ben Vernel and Adam Knox.
Stand-up
Tommy has been performing stand-up comedy since he was 13 years old. He has performed nine one-man shows to date at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.[5][6]
Notable stand-up shows
Writer credits (theatre)
- 2006 - I Heart Racism (with Dave Bushell)[9]
- 2009 - All The Single Ladies (with Bart Freebairn)[10]
Writer credits (television)
- 2009 - Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation[11]
- 2014 - Fully Furnished (pilot) (with Tom Ballard)
Acting credits (television)
- 2015 - Fully Furnished (pilot)
External links
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- Tommy Dassalo on IMDB
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