Tom Allen (comedian)

Tom Allen is an English stand up comedian actor and writer.

At the age of 22 Allen won the UK's most prestigious comedy newcomer award So You Think You're Funny in 2005. The same year he won the BBC New Comedy Awards. He performed with fellow So You Think You're Funny winner Tom Wrigglesworth at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the show Allen & Wrigglesworth.

He has performed at Just For Laughs in Montreal, London’s Soho Theatre, New York’s UCB Theatre and has had his own show at the Edinburgh Fringe for the past three years - 'Tom Allen and Other Short Stories'; 'A Voyage Round My Mother' and 'Women!'

In 2009 he appeared in Channel 4’s weekly TNT Show writing and presenting Dictionary Corner.

He has also co written and recorded 2 series of The Correspondent for BBC Radio 4. In 2009 he made guest appearances on Loose Ends, The Richard Bacon Show, Big Brother’s Big Mouth and Big Brother’s Little Brother.

He took the lead role of young Pip Bin in the BBC Radio Four comedy Bleak Expectations, which has so far run to four series (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010) with Anthony Head and Richard Johnson.

In 2008 he recorded a radio adaptation of The Wooden Overcoat with Julia Davis and David Tennant and written by Mark Gatiss.

For television he has appeared in BBC’s Sensitive Skin, Fear of Fanny, the Frankie Howerd biopic Rather You Than Me and the series The Cut as well as Channel 4’s Law of the Playground. Last year he made his own documentary for E4 about identity entitled...
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