 At 6’8” and 20 stone Big Tom is a comedy giant with a lot to say. Born in South London in 1979 (just spare a thought for what his poor mum must have gone through!) he spent his early years watching Norman Wisdom, Charlie Chaplin and Tommy Cooper with his dad and Granddad, a stand up comedian.
The old greats fired his ambition and by the age of 12, after performing in a school play, he was hooked. While working the comedy circuit, Tom kept his day jobs which ranged from work as a market stall holder, a chef, a RSPB field worker, a club promoter, a scaffolder, a window cleaner and a bar man. It was evident that he couldn’t hold one job for any sort of time and was fast morphing into one of his heroes, Frank Spencer.
So, Tom sought to make a change in April 2005 by answering a newspaper advert for people with interesting stories about the 1980’s. Tom thought it would be a perfect platform to try out one of his creations on the unsuspecting public - Steve Matthews, a luckless loser from Salford. He managed to blag the whole day as his alter ego and was hooked. Since then, Tom hasn’t looked back and has been able to create a world of characters, which he can slip in and out of at the drop of a hat. |
