Colm Tobin is an Irish screenwriter and television producer known for his work on ''
Irish Pictorial Weekly
''Irish Pictorial Weekly'' is an Irish satirical television series which was broadcast on Raidió Teilifís Éireann starting in November 2012.
Series 2 of the show started on 21 November 2013 and was renewed for a third season which began airin ...
'', ''Langerland.TV'', ''Science Fiction'', and ''Brain Freeze''.
and spent his youth as a musical performer. During college, he studied law. Although he never practiced as a lawyer, he gained an appreciation for politics from these studies, which would later influence his style of humor.
Writing and TV Production
Since 2006, Tobin has worked with Kite Entertainment, as one of the creators of the animated television series ''Langerland.TV'' and the stage production ''Anglo the Musical''. The former is based on the satirical website Langerland.com and airs in ten-minute installments on
RTÉ Two
(RTÉ) (; Irish for "Radio & Television of Ireland") is the national broadcaster of Ireland headquartered in Dublin. It both produces and broadcasts programmes on television, radio and online. The radio service began on 1 January 1926, whil ...
. A review in '' The Herald'' called the series' animation and humor both "rudimentary". ''Langerland.TV'' is aimed at adult audiences. However, Tobin has also worked as a writer on two children's animated series: ''Science Fiction'' and ''Brain Freeze''. He helped to create the latter, which
Aardman Animations
Aardman Animations Limited (also known as Aardman Studios, simply Aardman or Aardman Animation and stylised as AARDMAN as of 2022) is a British animation studio based in Bristol, England. It is known for films made using stop-motion and clay ani ...
has distributed. Tobin has said that writing for children differs from writing for adults, in that with children, "you have to focus on actually entertaining the audience without resorting to controversy or shock." Tobin has contributed content to the ''
Irish Times
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Tobin was one of the first Irish writers to use Twitter to raise his profile. The popularity of his twitter account @colmtobin (where he has made a point of emphasising that he is not
Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín (, approximately ; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet.
His first novel, '' The South'', was published in 1990. '' The Blackwater Lightship'' was shortlis ...
, the famous Irish author) led to him getting a publishing deal with
Penguin Books
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