Hey! I’m Tom.

Two men smiling, one kneeling and the other sitting in a wheelchair, in a room with medical exercise equipment and a colorful painting on the wall.

I’m a roll-up comedian from Poulsbo, Washington, using humor, wheels, and a text-to-speech voice to tell stories about life after everything went sideways. Literally.


In 2015, I fell off a fire escape at a fraternity party, suffered a traumatic brain injury, and lost my natural speech.
But I didn’t lose my drive to make people laugh.
Today, comedy is my voice — a way to share what disability, survival, and resilience really look like, without sugar-coating anything.


When I’m offstage, I’m usually watching improv with my dad or taking my mom and her friends’ lunch money at cards.

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What Happened to You | Documentary

A documentary about two childhood friends who turn their traumas into stand-up comedy.

From home videos on Bainbridge Island to sharing the stage as adults, their story shows how humor, friendship, and honesty can transform pain into something powerful.

  • Two young men are on a football field, with one standing behind the other who is sitting. The man behind has brown hair, is smiling, and is leaning over the seated man. The seated man has curly hair, glasses, and is holding a bagel. The background shows football goalposts, a running track, and trees under a blue sky.
  • Two men sitting in a dark room, smiling and watching something. The man on the left has glasses and is wearing a red T-shirt, holding a crumpled tissue. The man on the right is wearing a white T-shirt, with his hands on his lap.
  • Individuals participating in a therapy activity involving parallel bars in a therapy room.
  • Man with glasses and a maroon T-shirt with 'WSU Cougars' written on it, sitting at a glass table, looking at a tablet displaying a photo of a smiling young man in a suit.
  • A young man with glasses brushes his teeth in a bathroom, sitting in a wheelchair, with shelves of towels and toiletries behind him.
  • Two young men, one in a white t-shirt and the other in a Washington State University Cougars t-shirt, are standing on a wooden dock over water. The man in the wheelchair in front is smiling with his eyes closed, and the man behind him is standing and leaning slightly forward with a content expression. The background features trees, a parking lot with cars, and a small building under a clear blue sky.

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