Tom Basden

Tom Basden

Tom Basden (b. England, 1981) is a British actor and comedy writer, and a member of the British four man sketch group Cowards. He has written and performed extensively for comedy shows on the BBC and Channel 4 and often collaborates in two-man shows with fellow Cowards member Tim Key.

Basden was educated at King's College School (in the same year group as actors Khalid Abdalla and Ben Barnes) and read English at Cambridge University, where he was Vice President of the Cambridge Footlights.

Basden's one man show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival "Tom Basden Won't Say Anything" won the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer. [ [http://www.if.com/eddies/2007-winners.html if.comedy - 2007 winners ] ] He also starred with Tim Key in the short film The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island [Trailer for "The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island" http://www.beam.tv/view.php/herb_mcgwyer.mov?XFjDqRTfgs&log=gdTVrpMqnk] , which won the UK Film Council Kodak Award for Best British Short Film. [ [http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/news/view/1955/and-the-winner-is-/?from=all/1 And the winner is... - News - Edinburgh International Film Festival ] ]

Basden replaced Tim Minchin as the resident musician for the second series of "Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better" where he appears along with Tim Key and Mark Watson.

References

External links

* [http://www.karushi.com/karushi/artists_tom_basden.php Homepage]
* [http://www.thecowards.co.uk/people.html Official Cowards website]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/cowards/ Cowards on BBC 3]
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