Tom Stade

Daniel Sloss on his comedy heroes, Ed Byrne and Tom Stade

The Fifer names his most influential comics

26 Mar 2012

I’d go for Ed Byrne. He did his own style of comedy which was a mixture of one-liners and stories and gags, a really beautiful mix which always had audiences in the palm of his hand. He could tell stories which might not have many gags in them but they…

Tom Stade: What Year Was That?

Whimsy and shock humour make for easy, if not entirely guilt-free, laughs

8 Aug 2011

Gripping the mic, MC-style, Stade is a salty Everyman. Saying what no one else dares say and with much better timing, he’s the buddy your wife fancies but doesn’t want around. There are a few misses, but gags about marriage, famine and national pride…

Tom Stade

13 Nov 2008

With arguably the finest Fringe show name of 2008 (Oh Fuck, Do We Need a Title, Too?), this Canadian comic gave us a sharp, bitter set concerning the oppression of marriage and his relationship to drink and drugs. A shady treat is in store.

Tom Stade

7 Aug 2008

With such an expletive-ridden laconic drawl, it's no surprise to hear Stade riff on stoner gags. What is surprising is just how many other topics he manages to cover in a scattershot hour. Few jokes hit the bullseye but there are plenty of laughs…

Top comedy gigs to look out for

10 Sep 2007

Tom Stade It takes years of hard, dedicated gigging to appear as relaxed as Tom Stade does on stage. Charming, handsome and unflappable he may be, but the Canadian émigré also possesses that indefinable knack of drawing you completely into his offbeat…

Tom Stade

16 Aug 2007

A grating stoner persona and a tendency to giggle at and repeat your own punchlines does not the meritorious comedian make. It’s easy to imagine Stade cracking his ‘outrageous’ gags in the next American Pie sequel, ideally aboard a low-rent cruise ship.

Punch Lines

1 Aug 2007

Jim Jeffries isn’t the only comic on the receiving end of trouble from their audience. Brian Donaldson compiles some tales of terror. At a late-night Spank! show, Andrew Lawrence (pictured) foolishly challenged a heckler to a duel. As Lawrence unpopped…