Tom Shillue

Tom Shillue’s cult following started at Moonwork in New York City where monthly, literally hundreds of hipsters pile in to the always sold-out show to catch his acerbic wit, whether telling stories about his light-saber obsessed youth, or mulling over the Constitution’s sex appeal, or the dangers of freezy headaches. The sardonic Shillue refers to his comedy as “tales from the not-so-dark side” of growing up in the burbs.

Backstage named him the top New York Comic, saying, “There isn’t anything Shillue can’t do.” Critics say he is always on point, original, and one of the top comics in the country. The New York Times called Shillue “inspired and subversive” and The New York Post said he is “brilliant.”

Shillue’s fan base spread across the country leading to multiple television appearances including: Conan O’Brien, NBC’s Late Friday, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. If you missed him performing stand up, you are guaranteed to see him in one of the hundreds of commercials he’s appeared in, such as Snickers, Verizon, Audi and Lay’s Potato Chips. “People stop me every day and say ‘Hey, you’re that guy, right?” Shillue explains modestly. Yep, he is.

He co-wrote and performed in the long-running Gas, Food, Talent at the West Bank, and co-wrote and appeared in The North American White Male with Jim Gaffigan and The Velvet Vise with Janeane Garofalo. He recently appeared in the New York opening of The Second City’s Melancholy Baby, at the Ars Nova Theater.

He wrote and co-starred in the award-winning short film “Go Jimmy, Go”, and co-directed the film “Fourwarned: A Barbershop Odyssey”, which won a “best mockumentary” award at the MicroCineFest in Baltimore.

Shillue’s expanded to feature films with Max and Grace and Duane Incarnate, as well as the web with the “30-second sitcom” series for fairenough.com and his soon to be released web-based live stand-up comix(tm). To find out more about that stuff, do what everyone else does and log onto his popular website, tomshillue.com.

Tom’s hysterical half-hour Comedy Central Presents stand up special was partly responsible for Tom’s 10th place finish in Comedy Central’s Stand Up Show Down competition in which fans vote for their favorite comedians. Catch this brilliant, Massachusetts bred, wicked smart stand up in his latest, greatest television appearance.

March 27th Tom releases his debut stand-up album, Overconfident.

“It’s all about the story”. Stand Up Comedian Tom Shillue (from the TV special Comedy Central Presents: Tom Shillue) lives up to his reputation as New York’s best comic storyteller with the 21 tracks from his debut album Overconfident. Shillue fans will recognize many of the stories in Overconfident from Tom’s popular Comedy Central Presents special with a few surprises in between. Tom says “This album is dedicated to the spirit of the few, the bold, the partially clueless. Those overconfident souls who, against all evidence to the contrary, believe that they are the coolest one in the room. Because they realize that waiting around for others to decide you are part of the in-crowd takes a long time. Cut out the middle man. Be cool in your head.”