Tom Gleeson

Tom Gleeson Out of Touch

  • Comedy
  • Concert Hall
  • Run time: 60 minutes Subject to change
  • Seating map

Hard Quiz host. Taskmaster Australia host. Gold Logie winner. 5 times AACTA winner.

Tom Gleeson is completely out of touch. His head is up his arse.

Come along to the show and take him down a peg.

Tom Gleeson is a gold-plated comedy superstar, hosting ratings smashes and filling theatres across the country. He’s played rowdy RSLs and filled the Sydney Opera House. There isn’t a corner of this country that he hasn’t performed in.

On ABC-TV’s The Weekly, Tom’s segment Hard Chat beget his own show Hard Quiz, which not only blitzes the ratings as it enters its eleventh season, but also earned Tom Australian television’s gong of gongs – the Gold Logie, which rubs against his 5 AACTAs on his very crowded trophy shelf.

Given his natural disdain for the public, Tom couldn’t resist the chance to apply it to his fellow comedians as the host of Network Ten’s sixth season of Taskmaster Australia.

“Prepare for an hour of non-stop laughter.” ★★★★★ Time Out

“If revenge is a dish best served cold, the tasty morsels Tom Gleeson has been chilling in the deep freeze for years should safely earn him a Michelin star” ★★★★ The Age

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Plan your visit

Plan your visit

Address

Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Getting to the venue

The Opera House is a 7-10 minute walk from Circular Quay, and is easily accessible by car, train, ferry, lightrail, bus, bike and on foot.

Location and access

Concert Hall

The Concert Hall is located beneath the largest of Sydney Opera House’s roof sails, filling the upper levels of the west side of the building. Best accessed through the covered concourse. 

All Sydney Opera House foyers are accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators).

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