Tomáš Hudák is a successful stand-up comedian and former journalist. He worked for the largest Slovak daily, SME, and later as the head of the news broadcast on TV Markíza and the national television RTVS. He still writes as a columnist for daily Denník N. He is the author of the radio comedy show Skúška sirén (Siren Test) in national Radio Slovakia and has two comedy specials to his credit, one of them aired on TV JOJ. He has performed at the Eastern European Comedy festival Borsch in London and at the Dublin club Laughter Lounge. His debut novel Amerikáni (2025) about Slovak emigrants to the USA is a best-selling book in Slovakia.

Hudák's great-grandfather emigrated to the United States before World War I and worked in steel mills in Pittsburgh for seven years. His stories inspired Hudák to research emigration and resulted in a novel that captures harsh life of immigrants in Pittsburgh's South Side during the Spanish flu pandemic and the Great Steel Strike. Hudák himself visited Pittsburgh for further research and instantly fell in love with the city. In the book, he vividly describes living conditions of Slovaks in America, the influence of the city on their lives after returning to their old homeland, and also the special relationship of Slovaks to Pittsburgh, where the agreement on their new democratic state – Czechoslovakia – was signed in 1918.