About Tommy Riles

Tom Riles is a husband, father, and original founder of Life of Dad, the largest community of dads in the world. Riles is also the long-time audience warm-up comedian for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in addition to hundreds of other TV shows in Los Angeles. Riles started the Life of Dad community from a hospital room as his daughter was awaiting open-heart surgery at only three days old. His daughter is now a healthy nine-year old, while Riles and his wife, Lucy (who also started Life of Mom), have helped to raise over $1 Million for congenital heart defect awareness and research.

Cowboy Up.

Let’s start with a reminder of how we received this trip to Vegas…watch this clip from The Ellen Show. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz1kZw0t9Cg] Here are some of the highlights of our Vegas weekend... THE SWEET SUITE We had a fabulous suite at the Wynn Las Vegas, overlooking the only golf course on the [...]

By |2010-08-09T15:41:39-07:00August 9th, 2010|Blog|3 Comments

Dad Camp

* If you are a new dad, and you want to learn how to be a dad....You MUST watch our new video.... "Dad Camp." [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJT_b8S2fhk]

By |2010-08-09T14:18:56-07:00August 9th, 2010|Video|2 Comments

Labor Day Father/Son Watermelon Eating Contest

Start a new Labor Day tradition in your family.  Its simple, fun and inexpensive. Here are the steps: 1.  Buy mulitiple large watermelons. 2.  Cut up that precious watermelon. 3.  Set up sliced watermelon on a long  table. 4.  Have everybody sit at table and eat the watermelon as quickly possible. [...]

By |2010-08-06T14:01:37-07:00August 6th, 2010|Video|2 Comments

Father Knows Best?

I'll  begin this story with the end. The cop, while shaking his head, told me, “Now that you’ve brought a child into this world, you have to start acting responsibly.” What did I do you ask?  Why was a cop in Anaheim lecturing me?  Did I punch Mickey [...]

By |2010-08-04T14:28:55-07:00August 4th, 2010|Blog|6 Comments

Dinner for Schnooks

"So you're telling me her middle and last name are the same as mine?" Babs’ grandfather calls her Schnooks.  Babs had dinner with her great-grandmother this weekend.  Steve Carell’s new movie, “Dinner for Schmucks” had a nice opening at the box office, so I had not choice but [...]

By |2021-11-22T12:12:08-08:00August 2nd, 2010|Blog|4 Comments

Play Ball

Baseball has been my favorite sport and hobby since the age of six, when my New York Mets won the World Series.  As I started to grow older, I thought about how cool it would be to take my kid to a baseball game someday.  This happened last Friday.  New [...]

By |2010-07-29T14:07:03-07:00July 29th, 2010|Blog|6 Comments

Drool it Forward

                                                                                                             I drool.  I don’t drool¹ an extreme amount, but after waking up in the morning, there may be some drool on my pillow.  Unless I hook up a dentist saliva vacuum² to me at night (not in the plans), I think I’ll always drool a little bit. Most babies [...]

By |2010-07-27T13:58:58-07:00July 27th, 2010|Blog|2 Comments
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