Thomas Schmitt

Thomas Tommi Schmitt (born 26. Januar 1989 in Detmold) is a German podcaster, presenter, comedy author and former columnist. He became known through the co-moderation of the most-listened podcast in the German-speaking area, Gemischtes Hack (with Felix Lobrecht). Schmitt comes from the Detmold district Hiddesen and attended the local primary school. In 2008 he completed his Abitur at the Gymnasium Leopoldinum in Detmold. After his Zivildienst he studied Medienkommunikation and Journalismus at the Fachhochschule des Mittelstands in Köln and afterwards did a traineeship in the press department of Borussia Mönchengladbach. He broke off the following master's studies in Hannover in favour of his career as a comedy author in Köln.

During his studies Schmitt was a gag writer for TV total. He moved to Köln to write as a freelancer for comedy formats on television, working for Luke Mockridge's show Luke! die Woche und ich and for Late Night Berlin with Klaas Heufer-Umlauf. He gained greater recognition through the weekly podcast Gemischtes Hack, which he has moderated with the Berliner comedian Felix Lobrecht since September 2017, and for which Spotify has held the exclusive rights since September 2019. In 2020 both received the Deutscher Comedypreis in the category Bester Comedy-Podcaster as well as the 1LIVE Comedy Krone. In April 2021 Schmitt received his own show on ZDFneo with the title Studio Schmitt, which was broadcast until June 2023.

Since August 2023 Schmitt hosts the podcast Copa TS, and since September 2023 he moderated, together with Sophie Passmann, the talk show Neo Ragazzi, from which he announced his withdrawal at the end of the fourth season in May 2025. He accompanied several ZDF documentaries on football themes, including ahead of the Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2024 and the Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2026. From 2020 until December 2022 Schmitt was in a relationship with the influencer Caro Daur, and in 2024 he moved to Berlin, having previously lived in Köln.