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4Talent award winning comedy writer and performer Tom
Bennett started off with comedy group Straitjacket. The group had many
local and national screenings of their work and after two successive runs
at the Edinburgh Festival and contributing to E4 sketch show Dogface and
BBC Radio One's Milk Run, Straitjacket were noticed by American comic Bob
Odenkirk with whom they developed a pilot sketch show together, "REEL
LIFE." Soon after, Straitjacket's sketches were screened at the
Montreal Comedy Festival and the group picked up a 4TALENT award for UK's
most exciting young creative talent in 2006.
Since the decision of the group to pursue solo projects,
Tom has written numerous TV sitcoms with co-writers David Maughan and Ben
Ellis, and two solo TV sitcom scripts. Tom also created popular,
long-running fictional internet vlogger KARL DALY who amassed a large
support from the YouTube community with videos topping 100,000 views. This
led to a regular spot in E4's TV show, "Unanimous - The Fallout"
- a spin-off show to the Channel 4 reality gameshow, Unanimous, produced by
FOX, culminating in a live appearance on the final show.
Currently Tom has just finished a sitcom for radio called
BACK TO THE NEST, which follows the relentless attempts of recently retired
parents Ivor and Joan to rid their house of their children who, due to one
reason or another, have all been forced to move back home. Tom has also
finished collaborating on another sitcom for TV; THE HOME, about
residents’ struggles to keep their home open.
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