Sam Simmons

Sam Simmons (born ) is an Australian comedian, actor, and radio and TV presenter. He has toured extensively with his stand-up shows, as well as many appearances on TV in Australia, the US, and the UK. He has won and been nominated for many awards, and won the Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer in 2014.

Early life and education Sam Simmons was born in in Adelaide, South Australia.

He watched a lot of The Goodies, Monkey, and Benny Hill as a child, and says was also very influenced by John Cleese's character in Fawlty Towers, Basil Fawlty: "Rage and silliness combined. What a mix!". In the same year, he developed and performed his show Death of a Sails-Man, which one reviewer described as "an extremely quirky one-man monologue... a man live on stage having a breakdown, singing, reflecting and joking with his sub-conscious".

His 2015 award-winning show, Spaghetti for Breakfast featured his usual "silly" (self-described) pieces, followed by a deeply personal reference to how he nearly committed suicide as a young adolescent.

In March 2016, Simmons performed a new show, Not a People Person, at MICF. At several comedy festivals in 2019, Simmons performed a new show, 26 Things You're Doing Wrong with Sam Simmons about unconventional life hacks. In December 2019, he performed for 10 nights at the Soho Theatre in London, In 2022, he performed Be a Verb at the Garden of Unearthly Delights in the Adelaide Fringe.

John Bailey wrote in The Sydney Morning Herald in 2016: "...an hour with Simmons is a tour of the comic spectrum: physical comedy, musical comedy, sketch and character work, puns, one-liners, shaggy dog stories, mime, crowd work, visual gags, observational comedy, meta-comedy and more, all delivered with the kind of pummelling intensity...". He has also appeared on another American TV show, Adam Devine's House Party, as well as the British shows 8 Out of 10 Cats, Room 101.

In 2017, he provided the voice of Mr Wallaby in Peppa Pig.

Since 2022 and , Simmons has hosted the podcast Niche as Quiche, a regular deep-dive into various niche subjects and stream-of-consciousness topics.

Simmons has appeared on the comedy quiz show Dirty Laundry Live.

Awards and nominations

Awards 2003: Moosehead Award for The Steve Promise Story 2006: The Groggy Squirrel Critics' Award for Tales from the Erotic Cat 2008: MICF Directors' Choice Award for Where can I win a bear around here? 2010: MICF Golden Gibbo Award for The Incident with David Quirk 2011: The Sydney Morning Herald M Award for Best Comedy 2014: Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer Lukas 12 episodes 2019 Mr Black Barry Donato 1 episode 2017 Get Krack!n Creepy Dude 3 episodes 2017 Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience Mr Wallaby 2016 Peppa Pig Mr Wallaby (voice) 1 episode 2015-16 Drunk History Various 2 episodes 2015 Sky Comedy Christmas Shorts Joke Writer 1 episode 2015 No Activity Glen 2 episodes 2015 Rotters Ears TV Movie 2015 Sam Simmons: Wallstud Sam 3 episodes 2015 Alt Tab Time of Death Man 2014 It's A Date Ray 1 episode 2014 Ad Nauseum Hamish 2012 Problems Sam / Uncle Warrick 4 episodes 2010 Fail (Warehouse Comedy Festival standup) Himself DVD release 2009 The Urban Monkey Murray Foote 11 episodes