Sam Campbell

Sam Campbell is playing The Engine Shed on Monday 14 December, with the show starting at 7pm. He's an Australian comedian who's spent the last few years picking up some of the biggest prizes in stand-up: the Barry Award for Most Outstanding Show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2018, and the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show in 2022. If you've only come across him through the TV appearances, seeing him live is where the work actually sits.

He's become a bit of a fixture on the panel show circuit, too. He won Taskmaster Series 16 in 2023 and has popped up on Would I Lie to You?, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Guessable, The Russell Howard Hour, Live at the Moth Club, Friday Night Live, Bloods, Fisk and QI. That's a lot of different rooms to be a guest in, but the stand-up is the thing that carries the rest.

Beyond the stage, he writes and performs on Channel 4's Get Real Dude and the cult series Don't Hug Me I'm Scared. His debut Channel 4 series, Make That Movie!, was set for release in 2026, and he co-hosts the podcast Lucy & Sam's Perfect Brains with Lucy Beaumont. It's a fair bit of ground to cover for one person, and this is a chance to catch him doing the one thing he started with.

Tickets are from £30, and the show is at The Engine Shed at Brayford Pool, LN6 7TS, on Monday 14 December at 7pm.