Brooklyn, NY, January 14, 2008
(wait for the 4:30 mark)
Baltimore, MD, March 13, 2008
The sound appears uneven, they edited the set and the interview, they misspelled my name, there was a girl playing a saw with a violin bow and the drummer looks like John Waters. All in all, it was a fun show.
Thanks, Randy (In his defense, he doesn’t know that I go to bed at 7am).
Website
freewebs.com/tommyers
Influences
Lenny Bruce, Richard Belzer, Bill Hicks, Eddie Izzard, Jerry Seinfeld, Charlie Chaplin, John Lennon
TV Shows
Fox 45 Morning News - WBFF-TV, Baltimore, MD.
Local Point TV - Comcast Channel 205 & Verizon Fios Channel 867, Washington, DC
Films
I think this one has to be my personal favorite.
I'm also featured in Don't Fuck with Joe Deeley.
Albums
CURRENT RELEASES
Words of Mass Destruction CD (TME-001) Released October 7, 2004
Words of Mass Destruction CD (TME-001-2/MT6037) Released August 24, 2006
UPCOMING RELEASES
Album No. 2 CD (TME-002) All I have to do is record this damn thing
Tom Myers's Interests
General
stand-up comedy, writing and performing, traveling, reading newspapers or any good books, and the Baltimore Orioles (to a fault). By tom_myers at 2008-04-26
Music
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix
In memory of Bill Hicks (1961-1994)
Special thanks to Chedsorr
Movies
Whatever it is, I'll wait until the book comes out.
Of course, I do have my exceptions.
Television
Law & Order
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (notice a pattern?)
Rescue Me
Last of the Summer Wine
These are the only shows I find worth watching and therefore make an effort to watch.
Books
"The Gnostic Gospels" by Elaine Pagels
"The Trial" by Franz Kafka
"Leap into Darkness" by Leo Bretholz
"Homicide" by David Simon
"Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James Loewen
"Lies Across America" by James Loewen
Heroes
My parents for putting me on this bizarre planet and my family for the wonderful world in which I grew up. There are too many of them to thank.
Comedically, my heroes are Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Bill Hicks and Charlie Chaplin.
Goucher College
Baltimore,Maryland
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: History
Clubs: Goucher Student Radio, The Bowling Congregation (for three weeks my freshman year -- don't ask), and Open Circle Theater (the non-organizational end)
2001 to 2005
Fallston High
Fallston,Maryland
Graduated: 2001
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
When you think of comedian Tom Myers, you think of a comedian who is not afraid to try anything new onstage. Tom presents a different kind of comedy, a kind of comedy that appeals to the big city intelligencia yet can also play to the small-town crowds.
Tom has performed in nine states plus DC, playing at not only comedy clubs and colleges, but also in theaters, art spaces, bars and restaurants for such diverse groups as high school and college students, senior citizens, cancer survivors and also for our nation's wounded soldiers during performances at Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital.
Tom has also been featured on radio, television and in print media all over the country.
So why not come out and see Tom, a comedian who cares about entertaining you (and a great writer of the third person). Or better yet, request him at a performance venue near you.
Tom Myers started performing stand-up comedy in 2001 at Goucher College. Since then, he performed at various events on campus before he graduated in 2005 with a degree in History. His first comedy club appearance was in January of 2004 at Tootsie's Comedy Club, located at the 152 Bar and Grill in his hometown of Fallston, Maryland. Additionally, he also performed at the Baltimore Comedy Factory, where he competed in his first Funniest Person in Baltimore competition. In February 2006, Tom made his debut at the Improv Comedy Club in Washington, DC when he performed at the DC Comedy Showcase contest. Although he didn't place, Tom proved to those in doubt that he could win over the audience in a professional comedy club setting. In October 2006, Tom performed for a hundred wounded soldiers and their families at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. In April 2008, Tom made his debut on Local Point TV, a DC-based channel on Comcast.
In just a few years, Tom has entertained (and even puzzled) audiences using his unique sense of humor as well as his political and social insights in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, South Carolina, New Jersey, New York and the District of Columbia including major cities such as Baltimore, Richmond, Philadelphia, Washington and New York City as well as college crowds at Goucher College and Coppin State in Baltimore as well as Virginia Tech and Clemson University.
In addition to being a stand-up comic, Tom had his own show on Goucher Student Radio while he was in college. For two hours a week during the semesters, he hosted, wrote and produced "The Myers Experience," where he commented on news stories using his acerbic sense of humor.
Tom is also an actor. He played the role of the Hatter, a bitter aging comedian, in Alice in Americaland at the 2001 Harford County Drama Festival during his senior year at Fallston High School. In 2004, he performed in two original stage productions, The Newport Flower Convention and DIN, at Goucher. That same year, he appeared in Goucher's production of the Jean-Paul Sartre play No Exit. This role kept Tom on stage without a break for 96 minutes and is one of Tom's strongest dramatic roles.
On 24 September 2004, Tom produced and starred in his own one-man political show, Words of Mass Destruction, at Goucher and released a CD of the same title two weeks later! On August 24, 2006, Words of Mass Destruction was re-released on MT6 Records, an independent label based in Baltimore. The CD, which also features clips of "The Myers Experience," is available for purchase on his website as well as at CD Baby, Tower Records Online, Amazon.com, MT6 Records Online and Apple iTunes.
Tom is currently in the process of recording album number two. More details forthcoming!
In September of 2006, Tom was one of the founders (along with Brett the Irish Comic) of the Heathens of Comedy.
Tom currently resides in Fallston, Maryland, and performs mainly in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. He looks forward to seeing you at one (or all) of his shows.
To any Friends of Tom in the Baltimore area, why not check out The Baltimore Orioles?
Past Shows Where Tom Has Been Featured (on more than just the poster)
Who I'd like to meet: Uh, I guess I would like to meet the following:
Anyone who likes me
Anyone who doesn't like me
Anyone who's dead
Anyone who's in a persistent vegetative state
I guess that's it.
HEY TOM MYERS! how are you im so sorry ive been so busy with work i havent had a day off :( but you want to hear something funny i have like 12 friends that think i should be a stand up comedian so i was just like oh yeah Im doin that FO SHO! lol but, i dont think i could have what it takes even though they do lol happy 4th! how have you been? keep in touch!
Tom Myers is alive and well and will do my bidding because I know where he hides his skeletons... AND I know what he does with them when he thinks no one is watching!
