Thomas Blacha (born August 25, 1962) is an American voice actor, writer, and producer. He is known working for shows such as ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Career

Blacha started as a local Chicago Comedy writer, where he met

Andy Richter Paul Andrew Richter (born October 28, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and talk show announcer. He is best known as the sidekick for Conan O'Brien on each of O'Brien's talk shows: ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Late Night'' and ' ...

. Richter eventually landed Blacha a job with the Conan O'Brien show in 1993. Tommy worked on the Conan O'Brien show until 1999 writing bit pieces and developing such characters as "Gaseous Wiener" and "PimpBot5000". After leaving the Conan O'Brien show, Blacha went on to work for WWE in 1999 as a Creative Director. At WWE he helped come up with new plotlines and stories for the company. This role put him in bit parts for the fights themselves, where, while playing a medic, he once ended up getting slammed into a table by the wrestler Kane. Tommy also participated in what was voted ''Monday Night Raws worst moment, which was the delivery of Mae Young's hand baby. During this time, Tommy was also doing work with '' TV Funhouse'', the Comedy Central series based on the animated shorts on ''

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''. He was part of the writing team as well as playing the voice part of Hank and Whiskers. Some sources also list Tommy Blacha as a Producer for TV FunHouse. While there he wrote and produced the infamous "Black Sabbath" cartoon and the Oprah skewering "Stedman: Secret Agent" cartoon with Andy Breckman. Tommy lived in Las Vegas for a short while in 2002 and 2003 where he was promoting mixed martial arts and pro wrestling events. He was also attempting to do this in Japan and Russia. By 2004 Tommy Blacha moved onto new projects, becoming a writer on '' Andy Richter Controls the Universe'', ''

'' and head writer for ''

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'' and ''

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''. During this time, he met

Brendon Small Brendon Small (born February 15, 1975) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, animator, writer, director, producer, and musician known for co-creating the animated series ''Home Movies'' (1999–2004, with Loren Bouchard) and '' Metalocalypse'' ...

and began developing the concept for ''

'' which was picked up by

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in 2005 and was first aired in August 2006. In the show he voices the characters of

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, William Murderface, Dr. Rockso and many others. He co-wrote, alongside

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, every episode of the first and second seasons of the show, and directed the episodes "Dethstars" and "Dethgov". For the third and fourth seasons, he left the production of the show but still returned to voice his characters. Since mid-2015, Tommy has been a recurring guest/co-host on Ten Minute Podcast. In June 2021, it was announced that Blacha will serve as showrunner for the upcoming

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original animated series '' Super Giant Robot Brothers'' due for release in 2022.

Filmography

References

External links

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Video interview with Tommy Blacha
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