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Sam Campbell to embark on first UK tour in 2024

Friday 6th October 2023, 11:12am

• Sam Campbell: Wobservations - the first UK tour for the Edinburgh Comedy Award winner - will run in February and March 2024
• "It is our understanding that his comedy moments will DAZZLE you. His prefrontal cortex is larger than you might expect"

Edinburgh Comedy Award 2022 winner and current star of Taskmaster , Sam Campbell , is to embark on his first tour of the UK.

Sam Campbell: Wobservations will run in February and March 2024 .

His promoters explain: "Basically, we keep him in a metal crate. Once everyone is settled and the house lights go down, we will let him loose on to the stage.

"It is our understanding that his comedy moments will DAZZLE you. His prefrontal cortex is larger than you might expect.

"When he's done/empty we shove him back in the crate and you will be allowed to return to your home. How does all that sound?"

Tickets are on sale from noon via samcampbelltour.com . A full list of dates are below.

To accompany the announcement, new images of Sam have been released to the press:

February Friday 2nd: Coventry, Warwick Arts Centre Tuesday 6th: Dublin, The Sugar Club Wednesday 7th: Belfast, Blackbox Friday 9th: Leicester, Firebug Saturday 17th: London, Hackney Empire Sunday 18th: Birmingham, Glee Club Tuesday 20th: Bristol, Redgrave Theatre Wednesday 21st: Norwich, Playhouse Saturday 24th: Liverpool, Hot Water March Friday 1st: Leeds, City Varieties Wednesday 6th: Edinburgh, Monkey Barrel Thursday 7th: Edinburgh, Monkey Barrel Friday 8th: Edinburgh, Monkey Barrel Saturday 9th: Edinburgh, Monkey Barrel Sunday 10th: Edinburgh, Monkey Barrel Monday 11th: Glasgow, The Stand Saturday 16th: Reading, South Street Arts Tuesday 19th: Cardiff, Glee Club Thursday 21st: Brighton, Komedia Saturday 23rd: Manchester, The Lowry (studio) Wednesday 27th: Sheffield, The Leadmill Thursday 28th: Cambridge, Cambridge Junction

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Basically, we keep him in a metal crate. Once everyone is settled and the house lights go down, we will let him loose on to the stage. It is our understanding that his comedy moments will DAZZLE you. His prefrontal cortex is larger than you might expect. When he’s done/empty we shove him back in the crate and you will be allowed to return to your home. How does all that sound? (As seen on Taskmaster).

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Basically, we keep him in a metal crate. Once everyone is settled and the house lights go down, we will let him loose on to the stage. It is our understanding that his comedy moments will DAZZLE you. His prefrontal cortex is larger than you might expect. When he’s done/empty we shove him back in the crate and you will be allowed to return to your home. How does all that sound? (As seen on Taskmaster).

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Basically, we keep him in a metal crate. Once everyone is settled and the house lights go down, we will let him loose on to the stage. It is our understanding that his comedy moments will DAZZLE you. His prefrontal cortex is larger than you might expect. When he’s done/empty we shove him back in the crate and you will be allowed to return to your home. How does all that sound? (As seen on Taskmaster).

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‘My parents wanted to give me horse hormones’ – Sam Campbell, comedy’s new champion

He breezed into the Edinburgh fringe late with just half a show – and won the ‘Oscar of comedy’. In his first ever face-to-face interview, the eccentric Aussie standup reveals what’s next (‘Something’)

H ere’s how the Edinburgh fringe usually figures in a young comedian’s calendar. For 11 months, they conceive, prep and preview their show with the festival in mind. Then the best prepared of them, the most finely honed, might be in with a shout of winning standup’s biggest prize – the Dave’s Edinburgh comedy award , the so-called Oscars of comedy, formerly held aloft by the Steve Coogans, Leagues of Gentlemen and Hannah Gadsbys of yore.

That’s the convention. But whatever else Sam Campbell may be – trickster, loose cannon, terroriser of critics like myself – conventional he’s not. Campbell is the leftfield 30-year-old Aussie act who departed this year’s fringe with its most coveted prize in his backpack . In a field of nominees that included Jordan Gray, Liz Kingsman and Seann Walsh, his win was unexpected. It seems all the more surprising when I talk to him in what he says is his first ever face-to-face interview, and he tells me he came to Edinburgh reluctantly this summer, and without a coherent show to speak of.

“My manager was putting pressure on me to do the festival,” says Campbell, sitting opposite me in a cafe in London’s Soho. “But I said no. Edinburgh can be a real slog.” Two factors changed his mind. The first: “I wanted to use it to get material for Melbourne” – that being the Melbourne comedy festival, where Campbell has a devoted following after winning its prestigious Barry Award ( as it was then called ) in 2018. “I had half a show’s worth of new material, so I had to come up with another half.” He arrived in Edinburgh with loose-fitting routines some way short of cohering into a proper performance. “I know some comics like to freeze a show in time for Edinburgh and be done with it. But I spent the festival adding stuff in and changing stuff around.”

The other clincher was being able to perform for only half of the festival’s duration. Campbell’s show didn’t open till the fringe was two weeks underway – a breach of convention many thought might disqualify him from the main awards. “But it helped,” he says. “Because I came in for the second half when people were flagging a bit, and I had fresh legs.” Some have hailed his win as a game-changer: will any comic ever again commit to the whole month-long endurance test when a slim fortnight can be so fruitful?

“We’ll see if that happens,” says Campbell, clearly sceptical. “I think people are just addicted to it and obsessed with it.” He pauses and jokes: “I’m going to do longer next year. I’m going to do six weeks. Just to prove I have it in me – and to make up the time!”

No one doubts Campbell has it in him: he’s paid his dues at Edinburgh. I first saw him there in 2016 struggling to keep his oddball comedy afloat in front of a single-figure audience. At the last fringe pre-Covid, I was part of the (much bigger) crowd for another of his midnight hours, when Campbell pointed a pistol at an image of me on-screen and blew my brains out . It was quite the out-of-body experience for this comedy critic at the time – but just another irreverent in-joke for the gadfly comic. I’d never written a bad word about him, as Campbell cheerfully admits – but “I guess I just find that kind of stuff really funny”.

By the time his 2022 appearance rolled around, Campbell was becoming the comedian’s comedian, his auditoria packed with fellow standups – as was his 2019 Channel 4 short Get Real Dude , an off-beam sketch show co-starring Jamie Demetriou , Charlotte Ritchie , David O’Doherty and other luminaries of 21st-century comedy. “I’ve always loved collaboration” says Campbell, who started professional life as a sketch comic, and whose solo work isn’t always as solo as you’d expect.

This year’s fringe show planted several of his sidekicks (comics Mark Silcox, Dan Rath and Paul Williams) as disruptors in the audience – one of whom, Silcox, interrupts our interview today, posing undercover as an adoring member of the public, to ask for Campbell’s autograph. I’m not meant to take it seriously, but neither is Campbell remotely going to acknowledge that it’s a stunt. That’s the insouciant space his comedy inhabits, where anything could happen and, when it does, well it’s up to you to work out why.

“My mind is a prison full of crazy ideas,” ran the much-quoted opening line of his award-winning set . “I think there’s going to be a jailbreak!” There duly was, as visual gags on PowerPoint about the Weetabix font or the marketing of Bratz dolls piled high atop observational comedy gone haywire, with a side serving of random visits from a caped interplanetary hypnotherapist. Campbell makes no effort, he tells me, to make his live shows cohere. “When I do one, I just want to throw down, do whatever I want and act a bit insanely. And I don’t know if it would feel as genuine if I was following a script.”

When I first saw Campbell perform his oddball brand of humour, it was questionable whether it would ever find a mainstream audience. Baby-faced and never quite at ease, he made for a disconcerting stage presence, one moment confrontational, the next looking like he might burst out crying. And he seemed to revel in destabilising his audience or short-circuiting his own comedy. Throw in a propensity for performing at midnight, and a dash of imagined violence against critics, and the impression emerges of an act keen to keep the mainstream at arm’s length.

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Not so, says Campbell. “I’m not out there trying to be this cool guy. I don’t think I’m that introspective. I just try to make stuff that appeals to me.” His boyish, slightly vulnerable demeanour might be explained, he ventures, by the fact that “I was very small growing up” – a feature he thinks contributed to his pursuing comedy. “My parents were legitimately going to give me horse hormones to make me grow, because I was really small for a long time.” And as for his material sometimes landing with a bit of a clunk: “You’ve got to learn on the job,” he says, “and especially earlier on, I was still figuring stuff out.”

He adds: “My friend saw me in Edinburgh the first year I did it. He sat next to an old couple and, at the end, the old man looked at the old lady and said, ‘Absolute gobbledygook!’ I think now I’m slowly getting away from that. But if a few people still think it’s gobbledygook, I don’t mind.” And isn’t the gobbledygook sometimes just a bit intentional? “Maybe secretly. But I could never admit that to myself.”

Either way, it’s now Edinburgh award-winning gobbledygook. The significance of that to this comedy scholar – who during our conversation name-checks Lee Evans, Aussie duo Lano & Woodley and the vintage US performer Shelley Berman – is in his joining the award’s illustrious pantheon of past champs. “It’s cool to be among those people,” says Campbell. As for the professional opportunities the prize may open up, he has – as one of the seemingly least strategic and careerist comics I’ve ever met – less to say. Sample expression of Campbell’s current ambitions: “Now that I’ve become kind of a celebrity, I think I’m going to hopefully get to make at least a something.” Pause. “I don’t know what you’re supposed to say,” he eventually adds.

Campbell is already a regular in the Sky sitcom Bloods , and wrote for the recent Channel 4 puppet show Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared . Following on from his Get Real Dude short, he’d like to make his own show, but not “in the sketch space”. In what space, then? “In outer space!” he replies. It’ll more likely be in Britain: the Queensland native proudly shows me his “global talent” visa for the UK, meaning our islands are now his oyster.

“I try to do everything once,” he says. “I wouldn’t usually do an interview, for example, but it’s good to try stuff out and see what kind of things I’m into.” Now it’s my turn to feel the pressure: screw this interview up, and Campbell might never give another one. “Maybe,” he says. “Or maybe this article will be the scoop of a lifetime!”

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Stand-up comedy prodigy Sam Campbell is taking his first ever tour of the UK and Ireland, Wobservations, to the Ulster Hall, Belfast on 21 June 2024!

Campbell’s unique comedy style has made him a cult favourite thanks to appearances on  Taskmaster, 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Never Mind The Buzzcocks  and  Stath Lets Flats . After winning the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2022, he reappeared at the Fringe in 2023 for a one-off ten minute-long set at the Pleasance, titled  Bulletproof Ten.

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Stand-up comedy prodigy Sam Campbell is taking his first ever tour of the UK and Ireland, Wobservations, to the Ulster Hall, Belfast on 21 June 2024!

Campbell’s unique comedy style has made him a cult favourite thanks to appearances on Taskmaster, 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Stath Lets Flats . After winning the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2022, he reappeared at the Fringe in 2023 for a one-off ten minute-long set at the Pleasance, titled Bulletproof Ten.

Basically, we keep him in a metal crate. Once everyone is settled and the house lights go down, we will let him loose onto the stage.

It is our understanding that his comedy moments will DAZZLE you.

His prefrontal cortex is larger than you might expect. When he’s done/empty we shove him back in the crate and you will be allowed to return to your home. How does all that sound? (As seen on Taskmaster).

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Waggish prankster Sam Campbell returned to the Fringe 12 months after scooping the Edinburgh Comedy Award in the most Sam Campbelly way possible – a single ten-minute performance in one of the festival’s biggest venues, the 750-seater Pleasance Grand.

And yet still some people arrived at Bulletproof Ten five minutes late.

With a few comics having a claim to be the hardest-working comedian on the Fringe – the likes Mark Watson sometimes pulling in a 24-hour-plus shift, like an idiot – Campbell got the publicity coup and the attention of the industry (many of who helped bulk out the room last night) by being the least hard-working.

Given his propensity for mischief, there was always the possibility Campbell would muck around even with this unconventional format. Maybe he’d have a support act? Throw in an interval? Or overrun ridiculously.

But apart from cheekily taking his sweet time to get to the microphone, Campbell delivered, as promised, 600 seconds (maybe a bit more) of A-grade, offbeat material. He might not be working much on stage, but his inventive mind’s doing overtime away from it.

In a maelstrom of absurdity, he complained about hotel lift design, suggested his stand-up is an amalgam of the two Jerrys (Sadowitz and Seinfeld), and brilliantly described how changing his debit card has made him feel like a wealthy benefactor whose patronage must be obsequiously courted.

He masterfully coped with the notorious eight-minute slump by recruiting Mark Silcox to call time, ringing a handbell as he called for the Australian to start wrapping up. That was the cue to present his research into big toe lengths on the big screen, leading to a ridiculously inventive piece of audience participation.

If he’d served up this for an hour, it’d be five stars all the way. But we must adjust for time, so a perfect 0.83333333333 stars.

Review date: 17 Aug 2023 Reviewed by: Steve Bennett Reviewed at: Pleasance Courtyard

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Basically, we keep him in a metal crate. Once everyone is settled and the house lights go down, we will let him loose on to the stage. It is our understanding that his comedy moments will DAZZLE you. His prefrontal cortex is larger than you might expect. When he’s done/empty we shove him back in the crate and you will be allowed to return to your home. How does all that sound? (As seen on Taskmaster).

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Jenny Mollen — the actress, best-selling author and wife of “American Pie” star Jason Biggs — has bucked the age-old trend of waiting to recover from getting some work done before hitting a fashionable sample sale.

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