Tom Rhodes Net Worth is
$1.9 Million

Mini Biography

Brief BIOGRAPHY Tom Rhodes is a global traveling comedian who’s now celebrating his 30th season as a operate comedian. THE BRAND NEW York Times details him as “A mainly natural intellect using a knack for confirming the severe realities of lifestyle using a dark and absurdly positive cynicism.” An adventurer forging his very own path, Rhodes has generated a profession that not merely includes stand-up special deals, a sitcom, a travel present, a night time talk show, many live CD’s & DVD’s, his critically acclaimed podcast Tom Rhodes Radio, aswell to be a travel article writer for the Huffington Post. Fresh from launching his brand-new hour particular Light Nice Crude about Netflix Rhodes has already established an extended raucous profession covering every part of the world. His latest Television recording on Humor Central Humor Underground with Dave Attell will become airing in 2014. In 2012 Rhodes was presented in the Showtime stand-up series, Live From Amsterdam (2012). His three fifty percent hour stand-up special offers include two Humor Central Presents… (2009 & 2001) and Natural, documented in Stockholm for Swedish tv (2009). He previously his personal sitcom tv program on NBC known as Mr. Rhodes (1996 – 1997), his personal Late Night Chat present on Dutch tv Kevin Experts starring Tom Rhodes (2002 – 2003), and journeyed the world being a Television presenter in the Dutch travel plan Yorin Travel (2004). His latest LIVE saving being a double Compact disc Colossus of Me personally released in 2012. In ’09 2009 Laughspin.com named his Dvd movie Rhode Scholar the main Comedy Dvd movie of 2009. Being a highlighted travel article writer for Huffington Post his travel tale ‘A Tragedy, A Magic And A Brawl…Welcome to Ireland’ got awarded with the Huffington Post among the Top 10 Ideal Travel Tales of 2011. His podcast Tom Rhodes Radio was named among the Top 10 of Best Podcasts of 2011 by Matador Network and was praised as the very best newcomer in The Onion AV’s Golf club (Dec 2012). Since 2013 Tom Rhodes Radio became a member of Expenses Burr’s & Al Madrigal’s EVERYTHING Humor Network. Tom is a guest around the Joe Rogan Encounter (#248, 364, 420 & 500), The Adam Corolla Display, Marc Maron’s WTF, Aisha Tyler’s Lady On Man, London Genuine, The Artie Lange Present, Ron & Fez Present, NPR Snap Common sense. W: TomRhodes.world wide web P: Tom Rhodes Radio T: twitter.com/_TomRhodes F: facebook.com/TomRhodesComedy Con: YouTube.com/KingofHaHa Total BIOGRAPHY EARLY YEARS Tom Rhodes was created in Washington DC on January 14th, 1967. At age 12 Tom’s father, David Rhodes, a embellished Vietnam war hero with an excellent love of life and a love of stand-up comedy, took Tom to find out his uncle Bob perform. The entry to the area was right following to the level and as a tale the comedian drawn Tom up because he putting on a Washington Redskins coat. He interviewed him as though he was the trainer from the Washington Redskins. It had been that instant on stage in Washington DC, viewing the happy people who have their heads tossed back laughter, that Tom Rhodes made a decision to be a operate comedian. Later on that same season Tom’s family members moved to Oviedo Florida simply beyond Orlando where Tom became enthusiastic about comedy. He imagined to become the major league football player or a specialist operate comedian. Sometime during senior high school as the swift curve balls elevated their accuracy, Tom understood he wasn’t delivered to be always a football player and continuing to fill up notebooks with joke tips and concentrate on following his humor dreams. Tom’s dad David had many common comedy albums inside your home and along with his assistance he studied the experts: Richard Pryor, Bob Newhart, Costs Cosby and Rodney Dangerfield. While participating in Oviedo SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, everyone understood Tom wished to be considered a comedian and he was asked to host skill displays, pep rallies, as well as the morning & evening announcements. Among Tom’s earliest followers was his theatre and speech instructor, Mr. Mintrel Martin. Where additional teachers discovered Tom’s talkativeness to be always a issue, Mr. Martin urged Tom to explore his organic talents. The class room had a little raised stage in the guts and Mr. Martin would provide Tom the initial 5 minutes of course to speak about whatever he wished, he sometimes actually elaborated on ready speeches. Tom would discuss world events, items that were occurring at college, and whatever joke suggestions he felt attempting. The rants became therefore popular that kids from additional classes would occasionally attend. COMEDY BEGINNINGS In age 17 Tom took a false Identification and auditioned on the just comedy membership in Orlando, The Crazy Farm. Immediately after transferring and learning to be a regular performer on the Funny Plantation, Tom stopped participating in football video games and other college social features and made a decision to completely follow his wish to be always a comedian. Throughout his junior and final years of Senior high school he did shows every weekend in Orlando and branched out to 1 nighters all around the state of Florida. After graduating in 1985 from Oviedo SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, Tom continued the road to try out comedy circuits all around the Southern Usa or more and down the Eastern seaboard. At 19, Tom received “The Funniest Person in Central Florida” competition. The grand reward was the chance to perform in the Humor Store in LA, California. After conference Jay Leno, who informed Tom that great comedians ought to be residing in NY or LA, Tom chose that he was correct and transferred to NEW YORK. In what he describes as the worst type of year of his life, Tom was surviving in the Washington Heights neighborhood “such as a dog” without money rather than getting lots of sets in the town. He chose that the main one nighters he was performing in NJ and Long Isle weren’t the container of yellow metal he wanted, so he shifted back again to Florida along with his tail between his hip and legs. Back Florida, Tom’s humor became more powerful than ever and he began branching out and engaging in better comedy night clubs over the United States. The first quality comedy club to headline Tom was the “Atlanta Punchline”. After Atlanta additional quality clubs adopted. TURNING PROFESSIONAL In 22, Tom moved to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA with the only real purpose of developing and conditioning his comedy in the town he identifies as “the Jerusalem of operate comedy.” There is an exciting selection of comedians living and carrying out in those days: Margaret Cho, Marc Maron, Patton Oswald, Greg Proops. Tom quickly became a normal in the comedy giants of the town: The Punchline, The Improv, & Cobbs. Along with conference many individuals who would become lifelong close friends, Tom surely got to open up concerts for Adam Brown as well as the Everly Brothers while in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. Tom also got the see of comedy applications and began showing up on shows as an Evening on the Improv, Comic Remove Live, Caroline’s Humor Hour, and MTV’s Humor Half Hour. TELEVISION SUCCESS It had been an appearance on Humor Central’s ‘Two Beverage Least’ that resulted in Tom executing on a far more regular basis for the network. Shown simply because interludes, Tom filmed some jokes inside a prison cell setup just like a rock and roll video by Humor Central. These videos helped the lengthy haired comedian use on the nationwide consciousness. Tom became the initial comedian to indication a twelve months development cope with Humor Central that resulted in his 1 hour particular ‘Viva Vietnam’ a humor travel log towards the newly opened nation Vietnam being a heartfelt tribute to his dad as well as the other veterans who all served. Tom’s friend High Hall done ‘Viva Vietnam’ as the best article writer he was permitted to provide with him. Viva Vietnam was critically acclaimed as well as the Washington Post went a feature tale on Tom and his dad, and the way the leading in Washington DC enticed both Vietnamese diplomats and US diplomats laughing in the same area when they had been once mortal foes. For the reason that same year (1995) Tom performed on the initial ever HBO Aspen Arts Festival with the Montreal International Comedy festival. On the Montreal Celebration, Tom was uncovered by NBC skill scouts as well as the network provided him a advancement deal to produce his personal sitcom. In 1996, Tom moved from SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA to LA to make a sitcom along with his friend, comedy writer Tag Brazill. Tom’s unique idea for the sitcom was to be always a public defender attorney – “the tone of voice from the voiceless and champ of the tiny people.” It had been NBC’s opinion that because they simply had an attorney present fail they recommended that Tom ought to be a schoolteacher. From 1996 to 1997, the sitcom ‘Mr. Rhodes’ shown for a complete season over the NBC network. Tom performed a long-haired rebel British teacher within a stuffy personal school for wealthy kids. Even though sitcom had a brief existence and was susceptible to concentrating on inane silly locks jokes, the solid included the excellent stars Steven Tobolowski, Ron Cup, Lindsay Sloan, and Jensen Ackles. When the sitcom finished Tom viewed the amount of money he produced mainly because his “NBC artist’s grant” and moved back again to NEW YORK to spotlight his first real love of operate comedy. Surviving in NEW YORK 1998-1999, Tom surely got to fulfill the guarantee that he designed to himself that he’d one day reside in NEW YORK with style. For just two years Tom performed multiple models nightly over the town at Gotham Humor Membership, The Comic Remove, Caroline’s, The Humor Cellar, and OPERATE NY, and opened up for Ray Charles on the famed jazz membership Tramps. Tom also performed for the next amount of time in Montreal International Humor Festival and Simply for Laughs. Having excess amount in the town that under no circumstances sleeps and living the humor rock star existence, Tom discovered himself to become partying at an alarming strength. BREAKING INTO EUROPE During this time period, Tom started to take vacations to London. Through assistance from his friend, comedian Affluent Hall, he started to brake in to the London humor scene in the Humor Store. Success on the Humor Store resulted in Tom getting ultimately more work in britain and throughout Europe. While performing in Toomler, Amsterdam in 1999, Tom fell deeply in love with a Dutch gal and in the entire year 2000 he moved to Amsterdam. Tom says he was partying a lot while he resided in NEW YORK that he in fact transferred to Amsterdam to “take it down a notch.” Also in 2000, Tom appeared in Australia for the very first time in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. This influenced Tom to start out growing his reach to even more worldwide circuits in Paris, Dublin, Berlin, Hong Kong, Beijing, Bangkok, Jakarta. Even while carrying out half the entire year in america so as never to allow his American humor muscle go gentle. In July 2001 Tom filmed his initial ‘Comedy Central presents…’ fifty percent hour stand-up humor special on the Hudson Theater in NEW YORK. DUTCH TELEVISION By the end of 2001 Tom’s relationship was arriving at a finish and he was going to get back to the united states when producers through the Yorin television network noticed his display at Toomlers in Amsterdam. In January 2002, the ‘Kevin Experts Display starring Tom Rhodes’ premiered. The display was a wonderful blend between Tom’s American perspective on Dutch tradition and interviews with the largest actors and performers in your community. The show went for three complete seasons. In 2004 when the display came to a finish the network asked Tom to be always a presenter using one from the country’s most well-known travel programs – ‘Yorin Travel’. For one complete season Tom surely got to film travel sections all over SOUTH USA & Europe, including Peru, the Champagne area of France, Saint Petersburg Russia, Wales, the Dutch Caribbean, Aruba, Curacao, and an extremely special highlight in the Beatles in Liverpool. GOING INTERNATIONAL By the end of 2004, Tom went back to america and continue steadily to travel the world. In 2005, he performed on the Vancouver Comedy Festival and began to come in Australia regularly. In Dec 2005, Tom released his initial live CD “How Special Ass” on OPERATE Records, documented in Houston. In June 2006, Tom released his second CD “Reside in Paris” documented in Paris, France on the famed Resort du Nord. Also in 2006, Tom appeared within the Australian Rove’s Live, and in 2007, THE MEDIAL SIDE Display. In 2007 Tom released his 1st self-produced DVD ‘Holy Temple from the HA HA’ documented live in the Sydney Comedy Shop in Sydney Australia. The reward feature is a brief documentary of Tom’s existence more than a ten 12 months period like a operate comedian entitled ‘There and Back again Again’. It offers looks and kind terms from Dave Chappelle, Janeane Garofalo, Bobby Slayton. Tom’s moves and enthusiasm for filming his moves culminated in 2008 along with his obsession to make YouTube videos. View them at www.youtube.com/kingofhaha. In August 2008, Tom filmed his second “Comedy Central Presents…” on the Hudson Theater in NEW YORK. It shown March 2009. In Apr 2009, Tom preformed on the Altitude Comedy Festival in Meribel, France. In July 2009 Tom do his third Montreal International Humor Festival, Simply for Laughs with Whoopi Goldberg as the web host. 2009 was a busy year for Tom, playing internationally in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Belfast, Dublin, Galway, Rome, London, Geneva, Zurich, Munich, and Stockholm. In Stockholm on November 28, Tom documented a fifty percent hour operate functionality for Swedish tv on the tv screen program ‘Organic’. This year 2010 Tom performed in the Galway Comedy Festival with Jim Jeffries, Phil Nichol, Phil Jupitus, Jimeoin, and High Hall. Also this year 2010, Tom came back to Asia carrying out displays in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur. As a particular honor this year 2010 Tom was highlighted in the reserve ‘Satiristas’ – A reserve of photos and interviews using the leading comedians in the worldwide business of operate comedy today. Early 2011, Tom appeared in the podcast “WTF with Marc Maron”. In Apr 2011, Tom wedded photographer Ashna Rodjan and continued an epic Honeymoon vacation World Tour performing in Cork, Galway, Dublin, Bali, Bangkok, Jakarta, Perth, Sydney, Singapore. While in Perth he performed in the Wild West Humor Event headlining the Astor Theater. On Sept 23rd 2011, Tom filmed his 1st hour-long operate unique in Boulder, Colorado. As a presented travel writer for Huffington Post his travel tale ‘A Tragedy, A Miracle And A Brawl…Welcome to Ireland’ got awarded from the Huffington Post among the Top 10 Ideal Travel Tales of 2011. His latest Television documenting on Uncensored Late Evenings with Dave Attell will be airing in 2014. Tom is a guest over the Joe Rogan Knowledge (#248, 364, 420 & 500), The Adam Corolla Present, Marc Maron’s WTF, Aisha Tyler’s Gal On Man, London True, The Artie Lange Present, Ron & Fez Present, NPR Snap Common sense. TOM RHODES PRODUCTIONS Also in ’09 2009, Tom started his own podcast called “Tom Rhodes Radio” The podcasts are discussions recorded with comedians and additional interesting individuals who he matches or offers known for quite some time in his moves worldwide. This program is definitely edited by comedian Rob F. Martinez and Ashna Rodjan with superb clips of operate humor and inventive music options. The show could be noticed on his website tomrhodes.net and in iTunes. Tom Rhodes Radio was called among the Top 10 of Greatest Podcasts of 2011 by Matador Network and was praised as the very best newcomer in The Onion AV’s Membership (Dec 2012). Since 2013 Tom Rhodes Radio became a member of Expenses Burr’s & Al Madrigal’s EVERYTHING Comedy Network. In ’09 2009, Tom released his personal produced DVD “Rhode Scholar.” Both DVD set contains ‘Rhode Scholar’ – which consists of two . 5 hours of live shows filmed all around the globe plus unusual absurdities that he documented on his moves. The second Dvd movie – ‘Constructed for Pleasure’ – is normally Tom’s 1 hour one guy show filmed in the Humor Central Theater in LA. It was an individual telling of tales about his lifestyle traveling the globe as a operate comedian. In Dec 2009, PunchlineMagazine.Com/LaughSpin.com named “Rhode Scholar” the main Humor DVD Discharge of 2009. Lately, Tom continues to be pursuing his imagine making his very own comedy travel television program where he can document his personal travels and highlight comedy scenes all over the world. Tom created the pilot shows himself this year 2010, filming in Montana, Cambodia, Jakarta, Indonesia and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 2014 Tom produced his debut for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Tom continues to visit the globe and perform stand-up humor and it is actively pursuing his imagine landing his desire television show.

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