WARRNAMBOOL comedian Tom Ballard continues to rack up the accolades.
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Fresh from winning the Helpmann Award for best comedian, Ballard has been nominated for best comedy show at the 2016 Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
It also follows a successful Melbourne International Comedy Festival for the Warrnambool export where he won the inaugural Pinder Prize and was nominated for the Barry Award for best show.
Ballard was nominated for best newcomer at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has added an extra night of his show The World Keeps Happening to his stint there this year by popular demand.
He will follow Edinburgh with a run of dates at Soho Theatre in London.
It’s all part of a massive year for Ballard, who was the youngest ever nominee for the Helpmann comedy award.
He has also performed at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival this year.
On his Facebook page, the comedian wrote that the Edinburgh nomination was “very silly and nice”.'
He has been nominated alongside fellow Aussies Zoe Coombs Marr and Heath McIvor.
Speaking to Fairfax on Thursday morning, Ballard said of the nomination, "it feels bizarro and weird-ish and lovely and terrifying and I'm queasy."
"I just feel stoked to be up there with my fellow country-folk Zoe Coombs Marr and Heath "Randy" McIvor and for my housemate/basically-husband Nath Valvo to be nominated for Best Newcomer."