", He and Schmidt are in an open relationship, which seems surprising given their obvious devotion to one another but, as Thomas points out, "It's not that I don't love him! Today's been a frenzy of tidying, with the result that there are large sweeps of clean space on tables and benches, and lots of unidentified piles in corners. And then, of course, I tried to call him. "I cried every single day of primary school because I was so frustrated. And I wouldn't let go of it. And so you might as well also take a step back and question monogamy. "To be honest, I don't want to be a gay spokesperson, but I don't think we should have to 'make our case', you know? (Todd Abbott, Please Like Me's producer, recalls that during their first pitch to the ABC, Thomas ended up "lying on the floor under the table. The third series was released in 2011, and the second series was deleted as well. Im Alter von 17 Jahren gewann Thomas die Raw Comedy Competition am Melbourne International Comedy Festival. It was so exciting. "Creatively I feel very Zen about it – we wrapped it up nicely. Thomas wuchs in Brisbane auf. OMG can we tweet each other compliments then meet up and become best friends like you did with Taylor Swift? His stand-up routines were always relentlessly personal: being escorted to an ATM by a pregnant lap dancer in Kings Cross; hiking in Tasmania with a woman who used a plastic bottle to create a "force field" around her rice crackers; drunkenly making out with a boy at the ripe old age of 20 and suddenly realising he was gay. ", And Thomas sips his tea. Sipping his tea, Thomas talks about threesomes – "I quite literally had my first threesome and went out the next morning and bought a king-size bed. Thomas ist homosexuell. He is as he comes across. "I just would love some heartbreak. "You know, so nifty.". SS, in fact. [5], Thomas ist homosexuell. But baldness seems new, and also logically impossible. ", As far as his own affairs were concerned, Thomas, the youngest of three children (he has an older sister, and a brother who is also gay) describes himself growing up as "fat and gay – unknowingly gay. Two per cent of people have reduced libido from the pills, so maybe he was just trying not to say that. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Please Like Me runs very close – at times terrifyingly close – to Thomas's own life. ", He's not sure if there will be a fifth series of Please Like Me, because the show's US partner, cable network Pivot, folded in October. "It's very awful," agrees Thomas, looking stern. "I held the little guy. It's like your hands: your hands can't shrink! "Oh," he says breezily, sitting down, "I got a hair transplant between series two and three. Josh Thomas with his mother Rebecca at a screening of Please Like Me in New York last year. ", He won't go back to stand-up, he says: it's too lonely. He sits back expansively. Die Serie basiert lose auf Thomas’ Leben. Now, of course, I'm just thrilled. "And then we fell in love. And thank god, instead of walking out [as he does in the show], he started laughing. In episode one, series one, his mentally ill mum tries to commit suicide. In the past 13 years, Josh Thomas, who is now 29, has been a stand-up wunderkind (in 2005 he became the youngest ever winner, at 17, of the Raw Comedy Competition at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival), a commercial TV stalwart (including a stint on the quiz show Talkin' 'bout Your Generation), and, most recently, creator, writer and star of the hit ABC show … I remember after seeing one sex scene, Mum said, 'Josh, can I ask you something? In seiner Jugend führte er jedoch viele Beziehungen mit Mädchen. "You know, I'd never had anybody change their mind before. And I'm like, 'Surely you don't think monogamy is actually working, do you?' Thomas explains that both have legal power of veto over all scripts. He grimaces. I don't really want any more free time." So I think they're curious. Um, how did that happen?' He sits up. But in person he has the same quality The New Yorker ascribed to his show – a "tender, finicky quality … a diffident charisma" – that, when he chooses to exert it, is immensely appealing. Maybe this is a metaphor for your life, I suggest. "Part of that is just him, but part of it is also the need of this very clever man to keep his brain active. He mimes the tussle, fingers clenched, and you can almost see the TV scene forming before your eyes. "On the first day of high school, he insisted on doing the roll call, deliberately drawing the greatest attention possible to himself at 8am on the most terrifying day of any teenager's life. The only problem, he goes on, is that happy relationships provide very little creative material. "That friend's an idiot. "It's just exhausting to think about. (Thomas tweeted back, "I loved you, too! This show soothes my existential unrest. I see the real Josh very clearly in the show. He lifts his free hand to his hair, looking worried. Thomas himself doesn't dispute this, despite his mum's illness. We got into a sort of tussle." ", The operative word here, obviously, is girls. I've had quite the morning!" His house is a lovely Federation bungalow, with lots of dark wood and large, quiet rooms. There aren't punchlines in real life. "I couldn't watch series one [of his Emmy-nominated show Please Like Me] because my hair looks so weird. Thomas has a podcast called Josh Thomas and Friend, available from iTunes, which features Thomas and his comedian friends Mel Buttle and Tom Ward. "My boyfriend is the domestic one, and he's not here, and I called my cleaner, Tram, last night but she had an appointment! | Kein GND-Personendatensatz. He shakes his head. It's decorated – surprise, surprise – in a style very similar to the house in Please Like Me: lots of characterful cushions and unusual wall art. "They did some bad shit, too!". Josh Schmidt is the award-winning composer of ADD1NG MACH1N3 (Lucille Lortel Award - Best Musical; Outer Critic’s Circle Award - Best Score & Best Off-Broadway Musical; Joseph Jefferson Award - Best Musical; as well as 4 Obie Awards, 9 Drama Desk nominations, and Drama League nomination for Best Musical), ADD1NG MACH1N3 was also heralded as one of the ten best … Everybody gets their back up. "It's not very motivating. She didn't get diagnosed until her first suicide attempt, which happened in my late teens. ", When he was growing up in Brisbane, says Rebecca Thomas, her son was "always happy". He plays a character called Josh, who lives with his best friend Tom (played by his real-life best friend Tom Ward), his dog John (real-life dog John) and his stuffed hen (real-life stuffed hen Geoffrey). How could he be balder in season one (made in 2012) than he is in season three (in 2014)? 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"And then one day an ABC exec rang me up," continues Abbott, "and said, 'Um, just wondering about this stuff about Josh coming out?' "And Josh understands that. And that's pretty much where he still chooses to be." Seit 2012 führt Thomas eine Beziehung mit dem Schauspieler und Produzenten Josh Schmidt. A little bird lands on the fence in front of us. ", A hair transplant? "But I feel very comfortable taking any pill that gives me any moderate gain. 179k Followers, 3,694 Following, 528 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Josh Thomas (@joshthomas87) We just thought she was annoying. I want to watch Veep, but I'm stuck in The Block. He pauses, then smiles brightly. I've been employed and happy for nearly five years." Do people still have hair transplants? Mai 1987 in Blackwater) ist ein australischer Schauspieler, Drehbuchautor und Komiker. "That was an exact re-enactment of our first date," admits Thomas. But it seems harder on the innocent bystanders of his life, and most of all on his parents, who have had everything from their divorce (when he was 18) to his mother's bipolar disorder laid bare for the world to see.