guillotine
Guillotine is Tom’s first ever half hour standup comedy album. Achilles performs a cavalcade of original characters, poems, and mind fucks that leave the audience wondering, “Is this comedy?”
The album was directed by Sam Zelitch, sound mastered by Ben Harris, and recorded at Young Ethel’s in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Guillotine is available for streaming on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, and Bandcamp.
REVIEWS:
“Like being inside a dream Nicholas Cage is having about being a REAL artist.”
- Eric Asker Weekly
“Dreamlike stream of consciousness slam poetry one person show performance art, poking fun at stand up comedy tropes and the absurdities of modern life.”
- Andrea Wang Gazette
“There is truly no one like him, no one is doing anything even remotely like what he’s doing. He’s like if you had an AI write a standup set and the only input you gave it was a couple dreams you half remembered about Robin Williams and Andy Kaufman. He jumps wildly between puns where he repeats the same joke with only slight variations over and over, to breaking down how Eminem pronounced every letter of the alphabet (complete with charts) to office themed Linkin Park covers, and then he does half his set backwards, repeating every letter in reverse order. It’s exactly the kind of ground breaking, avante garde, bizarre shit I moved to NYC to see.”
- The Danny Rathbun Times
ZEITGEIST MEETUP
Zeitgeist Meetup is a book of gag cartoons written by Tom Achilles and illustrated by New Yorker cartoonist Pat Achilles. The book offers social commentary on city life, the political spectrum, and the pervasiveness of American consumerist culture.
Zeitgeist Meetup is Tom and Pat’s first book as a mother-son duo. It has been featured in The Bucks County Herald and Prime Time Magazine and is available for purchase via Amazon and Etsy.
More of their cartoons can be found on Funny or Die, DeviantArt, and Newgrounds.
TOM & WILL START A PODCAST
Tom & Will Start A Podcast is the first podcast ever that critics are giving 5 stars. Even though the critics are Tom Achilles and Will Purpura, they believe in self-rating. Each episode, Tom and Will tackle an idea for a new startup. Join them on their journey to start a podcast, a movie, and maybe even a relationship.
TEVISFEST
Tom and Leah grew up together in the backwoods of Pennsylvania and create sketch comedy in the wild streets of Brooklyn.
TEVISFEST is dedicated to Sister Veronica Tevis, a nun from our Catholic elementary school who intimidated young children in art class. The show features a variety of creative forms with live sketch bits, alternative comedians, and video presentations. They produce a monthly show at The Windjammer in Queens and host the infamous “Bro Mic” at Easy Lover in Williamsburg.
THE ROOMMATE SHOW
No one wants a roommate. Now you have two. Two roommates, a girl, and a pizza place. Actually, there’s no pizza place. Also, there's no girl.
Oh no! It’s The Roommate Show!
BATTLE OF THE TOMS
An impression contest held at Lifeworld to see who is the best Tom in Brooklyn. Six Tom’s, three judges, and the many Tom’s we’ve lost. May the best Tom win…
TOM GOES FOR A WALKING
Tom Goes For A Walking is a web series featuring Tom gallivanting around his neighborhood improvising characters and songs. Filmed during quarantine while losing all sense of reality.
Notably, an episode of the series was screened at the Ithaca Festival Comedy Fest in 2020.
LET’S HANG? A COMEDY SHOW
Tom and Meghan met at an open mic in Park Slope in 2017. Since then, they've produced Let's Hang? A Comedy Show over the past six years in New York City featuring some of the cities best up-and-coming standup comedians.
CLOWN BOY
Clown Boy is a two man sketch and improv duo composed of Tom Achilles and Michael Bird. They met in DC while performing at Washington Improv Theater. In New York, they performed improv all around the city and their sketch show “Clown Boy Presents: A Couple of Ghost Hunters” premiered at the Annoyance Theater in Brooklyn. Nationally, they’ve appeared at the District Improv Festival, Hartford Improv Festival, Steelstacks Improv Comedy Festival, and the PIT Indie-Pendence Day Festival.
RIZZLE
Tom had two web series on the internet comedy platform Rizzle.
The first entitled “Hold The Applause” features Tom Achilles and Charlie Dawson in a 90’s sitcom where the audience laughter gets out of control. The second series “Existential Committee” follows an anti-comedy path of absurdist conjectures.