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Tom Hearn is sitting in a tub with empty cans of Bubly with bright lights and smoke filling the room. He wears a polka dot shower cap and black high heeled boots. The text reads 'To What End. By Tom Hearn"

Tom Hearn is sitting in a tub with empty cans of Bubly with bright lights and smoke filling the room. He wears a polka dot shower cap and black high heeled boots. The text reads ‘To What End. By Tom Hearn”

TO WHAT END. by Tom Hearn

(Toronto)
isthattomhearn.com/
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Content Rating: General TOsketchfest Audience
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Synopsis:

A Comedy Show during a Pandemic?
TO WHAT END.
This will be unhinged.
Canadian Comedy Award Winner Tom Hearn has been locked at home for an entire year, since his show at TOSketchfest 2020 SHUT DOWN THE FESTIVAL. The days are running together and the lines of sketch comedy and reality have blurred.
Original Characters, Drag, Commercial Parodies, ONE impression, Musical Comedy, ZERO COVID CONTENT.
TO WHAT END.

Sensory and Content Warning: Flashing lights, Quick cuts, Swearing, Adult Content

Creative Bio:

Tom is a sketch comedian, improvisor and producer. PRE PANDY You could catch him in the hit improv show Hookup at Bad Dog Theatre Company, his sold out original hit Lipsynced The Show or his all over Canada and the United States with his around 5 star reviewed solo show “SLANG”. He is the creator of the sold-out Proud + Funny Festival (IRL and ONLINE) and the 420 Comedy Festival. He also created the queer sketch revue “ A Sketch Comedy Extravaganza Eleganza” which was named one of the Top Five Comedy shows of 2018 by NOW Magazine and won the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Live Production. “A Sketch Comedy Extravaganza Eleganza” also played in OFF-JFL in Montreal after a successful run on the Second City Toronto Mainstage. 

During the PANDY Tom has carved out a space for himself online (www.youtube.com/tomhearn). He was named one of the ‘Top 11 Canadian Comedians who Rocked 2020’ by the Interrobang. He has also been featured on Funny Or Die’s Best of the Web for his sketch “10/17”. Since March 2020 Tom has created over 25 online sketches and been a leader in streaming LIVE comedy with shows like: The BIT, Hot Takes, 10/17, Sunday Night Live and Theatresports, Globehead, The Oval and Hookup on Bad Dog Comedy TV. 

Spencer Crone is a video producer, director and editor from Toronto, Ontario. He has worked on short films and web series such as “The Love Bug”, “Mama!”, and “Mourning Period”. In addition to his film work, he has created compelling visual marketing and short documentary features for companies and agencies such as AT&T, Quickplay, Spark, and Sugino Studio. Most recently, Crone has served as producer and technical director for a variety of live online productions, including The Sketchersons, A Night with Tricia Black, 10/17: A High Improv Show, The Bit, Hot Takes, My Funny Valentine and the Straight Gagging video podcast. He is a regular collaborator with Canadian Comedy Award winning comedian Tom Hearn.

 

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