Tommy Brennan | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Comedian |
| Years active | 2018–present |
Tommy Brennan (born June 1, 1993) [1] is an American stand-up comedian from St. Paul, Minnesota and a cast member of Saturday Night Live season 51. [2] [3] [4]
Brennan grew up in a family of eight children and has Irish Catholic ancestry. [2] He enjoyed attention from a young age but was not always "the funny guy", noting that "the comedian isn’t the class clown, it’s the person who puts the class clown up to it." [5]
He was involved in school shows, and played The Little Prince in a theatre production. He graduated from Cretin-Derham Hall High School in 2012. [6] He then attended Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame University and studied accounting. [2]
Brennan lived in Chicago and started improv at The Second City. Unable to meet his desire for frequent performances, he switched to standup in order to perform multiple comedy shows in a night. [5] He worked at Cameo and LinkedIn before pursuing stand-up full time in 2023. He has opened for Nikki Glaser, Taylor Tomlinson, and Louie Anderson. Brennan was named "New Face of Comedy" at 2023 at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal. In June 2025, he performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. [2]
Brennan started a podcast and web series called "Roommates-In-Law" with his friend Tim Smith while they were bored during the COVID-19 pandemic. [5] "I would go over to his house and we would riff, drink and talk for hours and come up with some more ideas" Brennan said in a 2023 interview. Through they only had one suitable sketch after their first few weeks, Brennan says, "We just had so much free time to make it better." [5]
He credits John Mulaney with showing him that comedians don't have to have terrible lives to be funny. [5]
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