Sam Campbell
Stand-up comedian

Sam Campbell

Who Sam Campbell is

Sam Campbell is an Australian stand-up comedian from Queensland, known for surreal shows full of unexpected jokes, built around his own homemade slides and animations. He won the Barry Award for Most Outstanding Show at the 2018 Melbourne International Comedy Festival with The Trough, after sharing the festival's 2016 Directors' Choice Award with Tom Walker and Aaron Chen for Zanzoop - Feeble Minds.

In 2022 his Comedy Show won Best Comedy Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, and in 2023 he was champion of the sixteenth series of Channel 4's Taskmaster and a Malcolm Hardee Award nominee. At the 2024 Chortle Awards he won Breakthrough Act and was named comedians' comedian by his peers, and he co-hosts the podcast Lucy and Sam's Perfect Brains with Lucy Beaumont.

At a glance

Podcasts
Lucy and Sam's Perfect Brains
On screen
Taskmaster and Bloods

On stage

No dated show on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now — their own site has their dates: samcampbelltour.com ↗.

Lineups belong to the rooms and the comedians, and can change; each listing has the last word. Their nights on the Comedy Calendar →

Specials, shows and podcasts

On screen

Podcasts

Comedians like Sam Campbell

Each linked to them by something on the record — a stage they both came through, a bill, a show, a style or a home town.

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Questions and answers

Where is Sam Campbell performing next?

No date is on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now; their own site has their dates: samcampbelltour.com ↗.

What podcast do they host?

Lucy and Sam's Perfect Brains.

What TV shows and films are they in?

Taskmaster and Bloods.

Who are some comedians like them?

Aisling Bea (also in Taskmaster), Amy Gledhill (also in Taskmaster), Andy Zaltzman (also in Taskmaster), Fern Brady (also in Taskmaster) and James Acaster (also in Taskmaster).

The full SUCDb record

The full record — the career in order, the specials and credits, and the sources for each — is on SUCDb, with a button to add them to your D.O.C., your twelve.

Their SUCDb record →

Sources

Updated 9 October 2026 · the record checked 6 October 2026