Tom Basden is an award-winning writer and actor having performed and written extensively for comedy shows on the BBC, Netflix and Channel 4. Tom co-created and stars in Plebs, ITV2’s longest running sitcom. Plebs won Best New Comedy Programme at the 2013 British Comedy Awards, where Tom was also nominated for Best Comedy Breakthrough Artist, and the show’s third series received a nomination for Best TV Situation Comedy at the Writer's Guild Awards. He also created and starred in three series of Here We Go for the BBC.

He plays 'Matt' in the popular Netflix series After Life with Ricky Gervais, and 'John' in Quacks for BBC2. Tom formed the comedy sketch group Cowards, along with three of his contemporaries from the Cambridge Footlights, which went on to have its own series on BBC 4. He continues to perform with fellow comedian Tim Key as double act Freeze and has featured on Radio 4’s Tim Key's Late Night Poetry. Tom has also appeared in The Windsors as Jeremy Corbyn, W1A, The Wrong Mans and the feature film David Brent - Life on the Road.