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Tom Gianas

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  • Director
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Tom has written and directed for Saturday Night Live (1975); The Adventures of Tenacious D (1997); Human Giant (2007); The Awful Truth (1999) with Michael Moore; and Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995) (director). He is currently writing and directing the Comedy Central series Pretend Time (2010) and the FX pilot, Them's My Peeps (2000) with Bob Odenkirk. Strippers and Babies (2000), the screenplay he co-wrote with Sarah Silverman, has been optioned. Tom is also writing the first adult puppet show for the Henson Company.

Tom Gianas started his career at the Second City Comedy Theater in Chicago, where he directed the critically acclaimed "Pinate Full of Bees", which he also re-staged at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Tom occasionally returns to directing theater. Some of his most notable shows include directing the premiere of Sarah Silverman's show, "Jesus is Magic", at the Public Theater in New York, Bob Odenkirk's "Half My Face is a Clown" in Chicago, and Michael Moore, in London's West End.
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Known for

Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer, and Aziz Ansari in Human Giant (2007)
Human Giant
8.1
TV Series
  • Writer(creator)
Pretend Time (2010)
Pretend Time
6.1
TV Series
  • Writer
Hell and Back (2015)
Hell and Back
5.3
  • Writer
  • 2015
Kyomedy with Melinda Hill
Short
  • Writer
  • 2009

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Writer

  • Daniel Franzese in Gay Skit Happens (2016)
    Gay Skit Happens
  • Laura Dern, Bill Burr, Debi Derryberry, Justin Long, and Haley Reinhart in F is for Family (2015)
    F is for Family
  • Hell and Back (2015)
    Hell and Back
  • TripTank (2014)
    TripTank
  • Pretend Time (2010)
    Pretend Time
  • Talking Hedz
  • Drunk History (2007)
    Drunk History
  • Funny or Die Presents (2010)
    Funny or Die Presents
  • Kyomedy with Melinda Hill
  • Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, and Cheech & Chong in Cheech & Chong: Roasted (2008)
    Cheech & Chong: Roasted
  • Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer, and Aziz Ansari in Human Giant (2007)
    Human Giant
    • (creator)
  • Shutterbugs
    • (creator)
  • Nick Swardson in Gay Robot (2006)
    Gay Robot
  • The Showbiz Show with David Spade (2005)
    The Showbiz Show with David Spade
  • The Man Show (1999)
    The Man Show

Producer

  • Daniel Franzese in Gay Skit Happens (2016)
    Gay Skit Happens
  • Ed Bassmaster in The Ed Bassmaster Show (2015)
    The Ed Bassmaster Show
  • Laura Dern, Bill Burr, Debi Derryberry, Justin Long, and Haley Reinhart in F is for Family (2015)
    F is for Family
  • TripTank (2014)
    TripTank
  • I Hate the Dentist
  • Pretend Time (2010)
    Pretend Time
  • Talking Hedz
  • Drunk History (2007)
    Drunk History
  • Funny or Die Presents (2010)
    Funny or Die Presents
    • (segment Derek Waters Presents LOL)
  • Kyomedy with Melinda Hill
  • Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, and Cheech & Chong in Cheech & Chong: Roasted (2008)
    Cheech & Chong: Roasted
  • Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer, and Aziz Ansari in Human Giant (2007)
    Human Giant
  • Shutterbugs
  • Nick Swardson in Gay Robot (2006)
    Gay Robot
  • The Man Show (1999)
    The Man Show

Director

  • Jillian Shea Spaeder, Brandon Severs, Cody Veith, and Bryce Gheisar in Walk the Prank (2016)
    Walk the Prank
  • David Cross and Bob Odenkirk in W/Bob and David (2015)
    W/Bob and David
  • Hell and Back (2015)
    Hell and Back
  • TripTank (2014)
    TripTank
  • Thunderbrain
  • Pretend Time (2010)
    Pretend Time
  • American Heroine (2011)
    American Heroine
  • The High Road with Doug Benson (2009)
    The High Road with Doug Benson
    • (as Tommy Gianas)
  • Kyomedy with Melinda Hill
  • Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, and Cheech & Chong in Cheech & Chong: Roasted (2008)
    Cheech & Chong: Roasted
  • Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer, and Aziz Ansari in Human Giant (2007)
    Human Giant
  • Nick Swardson in Gay Robot (2006)
    Gay Robot
  • What's Not to Love?
  • Saturday Night Live: The Best of Saturday TV Funhouse (2006)
    Saturday Night Live: The Best of Saturday TV Funhouse
    • (segment Saturday TV Funhouse)
  • The Commies

Personal details

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  • Other works
    Directed "Jesus is Magic", a show written and performed by Sarah Silverman (Canon Theatre, Beverly Hills, California, USA).

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    While in film school, he was scenes partners with Janusz Kaminski in "Waiting for Godot", at Columbia College in Chicago.

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