Sam Campbell

Samuel Campbell (born 1991 or 1992) is an Australian stand-up comedian and actor. He won the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award in 2018 and the main prize at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival in 2022.

Early life and education Samuel Campbell was born in In podcasts, he has mentioned growing up around the regions of Yungaburra and Atherton, and studied animation at the Queensland University of Technology.

Campbell lived in Brisbane from the ages of 17 to 21, and in 2011 he was a Queensland finalist for the national Raw Comedy competition. By 2015, he had relocated to Sydney.

Career Campbell performs stand-up comedy live as well as creating comedy web shows.

Australia Campbell's first show was in Brisbane's Sit Down Comedy Club in 2010.

In the 2010s, Campbell was part of the YouTube collective Skills in Time, with Australian comedians Greg Larsen and Henry Stone.

In 2017, he had a regular weekly segment on Triple J radio, featured in the web-series Dayne's World, and performed stand-up at Sydney comedy clubs. In 2018, he was frequently appearing alongside Anne Edmonds as Connor Bidou, the son of her character Helen Bidou.

In 2026, Campbell was named as the new co-host of the Australian version of Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee, replacing Aaron Chen.

UK Campbell moved to the United Kingdom, having acquired a Global Talent visa in 2022. He performed at the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his show simply titled Comedy Show, which won the main prize. It was praised by the judges for its originality, surrealism and unexpected jokes. The Times described him as "a nutball, but he controls his loopiness with deceptive precision" and said that the show was "exhausting, exhilarating and a touch of genius". Brian Logan in The Guardian said "Campbell's imagination produces wonderfully adhesive images... there is now and then a core of robust observational comedy beneath Campbell's loopiness... None of it has anything to do with anything: it's the incongruity, taken to uncommon lengths, that's funny". The Daily Telegraph review mentioned "one-liners and absurdist whorls of madcap".

In 2023, Campbell was a contestant on the sixteenth series of Channel 4 comedy gameshow Taskmaster, winning the series. On 29 March 2024, Campbell started co-hosting the Lucy & Sam's Perfect Brains podcast with comedian Lucy Beaumont. It returned for a second season in 2025. In June/July 2024, he toured the UK with his stand-up set Wobservations. In March 2024, it was announced that Campbell would pilot a Channel 4 series called Make That Movie, involving the creation of films based on the dreams of strangers.

In August 2025, Campbell was announced as a contestant on the second series of LOL: Last One Laughing UK, which was released in March 2026. He was runner up to David Mitchell.

In early 2026, he appeared on TVNZ 2 in New Zealand Spy, written by and starring Paul Williams. He stars in the new British comedy series Make That Movie, along with fellow Australian comedian Aaron Chen, due to be released on Channel Four on 28 May 2026.

Recognition and awards In 2016, Campbell won the Director's Choice Award, and, in 2018, he won the Barry Award for Most Outstanding Show, at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. In 2018 he won the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award. He was the winner of the main prize at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards at the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In February 2024, Campbell was nominated in the Best TV Comic category and Best Breakthrough Act category at the Chortle Awards. He won in the Best Breakthrough Act category and was voted Comedian's Comedian by his peers.

In 2025, Campbell won the Chortle Award in the Best Tour category for Wobservations.

Personal life On the Off Menu podcast with James Acaster and Ed Gamble in March 2024, Campbell said that he had been vegetarian for three years.

Filmography Film

Television

Stand-up tours Year Title Notes 2024 Wobservations UK & Ireland tour 2025Window SuckerAustralia tour 2026 Kid Giblet UK & Ireland tour