Sam Nicoresti
Stand-up comedian

Sam Nicoresti

Who Sam Nicoresti is

Sam Nicoresti is a trans stand-up comedian from Birmingham, England, known for theatrical, surreal hours about body horror, cosmic dread, frogs and skirt suits. After the solo hours Bedtime, UFO and Cancel Anti Wokeflake Snow Culture she won Leicester Square Theatre's New Comedian of the Year in 2021, released her debut special Wokeflake and was nominated for Best Compere at the 2024 Chortle Awards.

Her second hour Baby Doomer was nominated for Best Show at the 2025 Leicester Comedy Festival and then won Best Comedy Show at the 2025 Edinburgh Comedy Awards; the same year it was long-listed for the (ISH) Edinburgh Comedy Awards and she was nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for the Act That Should Make a Million Quid. In 2026 Baby Doomer was nominated for Most Outstanding Show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and played the Wells Comedy Festival on 24 May. She started out in the double act Sam & Tom with Tom Burgess and has been part of the comedy collectives The Glang Show and Weirdos.

At a glance

Stand-up specials
Wokeflake
Official site
samnicoresti.com ↗

On stage

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

Stand-up specials

Their stand-up

Nicoresti began in sketch comedy at the University of Sheffield with the trio Staple/Face, which won Best New Sketch Act at the first So You Think That's Funny? competition in 2013, and the double act Sam & Tom took shows to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017 and 2018. Cancel Anti Wokeflake Snow Culture, a parody of 'edgelord' comedians, had a run at the Soho Theatre in March 2023, and her Edinburgh Comedy Award for Baby Doomer made her the first transgender winner in the awards' history.

Questions and answers

Where is Sam Nicoresti performing next?

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

What stand-up specials have they released?

Wokeflake.

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 →Their own site ↗

Sources

Updated 9 October 2026 · the record checked 6 October 2026