Tom Cotter

**Tom Cotter** was a Stand-Up Comedian act from FantasyAGT: Battle of the Champions. He was eliminated in the Semifinals.

## Background

Tom Cotter's high energy, rapid-fire style of comedy leaves audiences clutching their sides and rolling in the aisles. Tom has filmed his very own half hour special for Comedy Central in 2003. He won the grand prize at the Boston Comedy Festival and was voted Best Stand-Up at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival. Recently, he made his first appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and was featured in "Best Of The Fest" at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Other recent television appearances include Comedy Central's Premium Blend, the 2008 Barbara Walters Special, The Late Late Show on CBS, and NBC's Last Comic Standing.

Since moving to New York City, Tom landed his own series on the Woman's Entertainment Network called "Two Funny" and was featured in the Miramax Film, Next Stop Wonderland. He has performed at over 300 colleges and in a wide variety of venues from Nome, Alaska to Beijing, China, to the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Tom's appeal is truly international as he was summoned to London to tour and perform on British Television, and he won the Seattle International Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1994, as the Boston Herald noted "winning the largest margin of victory in the history of the event." He has also been featured in dozens of television commercials for products like McDonald's, Doritos, Pepsi, and Amstel Lite. [1]

## Preliminary

Tom Cotter's Preliminary performance in Episode BC02 consisted of joking about his parents and girl scouts beating him up, his parents trying to surprise him with a car, freezing water balloons, being spanked by the mothers of his neighborhood, stealing a Buick, an illegitimate birthy, and "bouncing up and down" his neighbor's tramp Arlene. Mike, Saf, Pennies and Fresh all gave him standing ovations. His performance was strong enough for the judges to send him to Judge Cuts along with Kevin Hart.

## Judge Cuts

Tom Cotter's Judge Cuts performance in Episode BC07 consisted of joking about how common sayings like "break a leg," a "party pooper," and "looking for a needle in a haystack" make no sense if taken literally. Mike, Saf, guest judge Smack, Pennies and Fresh all gave him a standing ovation. His performance was strong enough for the judges to send him to the Quarterfinals.

## Quarterfinals

Tom Cotter's Quarterfinal performance in Episode BC013 consisted of joking about college such as with jokes about college students getting piercings and tattoos as well as dating a minor and studying "a broad." Mike, Saf, Pennies and Fresh all gave him standing ovations. He finished in either 6th or 7th place in the vote. In the Judges' Choice, although Saf didn't vote for him, Mike, Pennies and Fresh did, sending him to the Semifinals instead of Brian King Joseph.

## Semifinals

Tom Cotter's Semifinal performance in Episode BC016 consisted of randomly rolling a die determining his material topic: Poor Examples. He proceeded to joke about topics like bed bugs and fairy tales. Mike, Saf, Pennies and Fresh all gave him standing ovations. He did not receive enough votes to advance to the Finals, eliminating him from the competition instead of Kseniya Simonova.