Ep. 484 - Sam Nicoresti
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Sam Nicoresti is a writer, performer and award winning comedian. Sam was the Winner of the Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2021 and was nominated for Best Compere at the Chortle Awards in 2024. Sam is known for her blending of stand-up, surreal theatre, film and music to create one-person shows that explore consciousness, identity, and cosmic horror. Sam’s first show 'Bedtime' was a midnight cult-hit at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2018. And In 2019 Sam followed it up with 'UFO', a show about trans-dimensional loneliness which transferred to The Soho Theatre in 2021. Her debut special Wokeflake, is getting rave reviews and available now to watch for free on YouTube. Sam’s new show Baby Doomer is previewing now. It was nominated for Best Show at Leicester Comedy Festival and will be at the Edinburgh Fringe 30th July -24th August, 17:40pm at The Pleasance Courtyard, as well as various dates around the UK after that .
Sam Nicoresti is our guest in episode 484 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
Tickets for Baby Doomer in Edinburgh are available here - https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/sam-nicoresti-baby-doomer .
Sam’s comedy special, Wokeflake can be watched here - https://youtu.be/AO-aWG6miks?si=HL5mF9yV2vU4I0aP .
For everything else Sam Nicoresti, visit - https://samnicoresti.com .
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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .
Music by Pass The Peas Music .
Artwork by matthewboxall.com .
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to my time capsule. I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule |
| 0:15.3 | and my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life that they wish they had in a time |
| 0:21.2 | capsule. They pick four things that they cherish and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. |
| 0:27.1 | My guest in this episode is the stand-up comedian Sam Nicaresti. Sam is a writer, performer, |
| 0:33.9 | and award-winning comedian from Birmingham. Sam is known for her blending of stand-up, |
| 0:38.7 | surreal theatre, film and music to create one-person shows that explore consciousness, |
| 0:44.7 | identity and cosmic horror. Sam's first show, Bedtime, was a midnight cult hit at the Edinburgh |
| 0:51.2 | Fringe in 2018, and in 2019 Sam followed it up with UFO, a show about |
| 0:57.1 | transdimensional loneliness, which transferred to the Soho Theatre in 2021. In December of that year, |
| 1:03.8 | Sam was crowned Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year. Sam is also an indispensable member |
| 1:09.8 | of the Weirdo's Comedy Group, the comedy duo Sam and Tom, |
| 1:13.5 | and the cult comedy anti-competition, the Glang Show. Sam was nominated for the best |
| 1:19.4 | comp pair at the Chortle Awards in 2024 and has gone from strength to strength ever since, |
| 1:24.6 | with her debut special, Wokeflake, getting rave reviews and available now to watch for free on YouTube. |
| 1:31.7 | So check it out. |
| 1:33.0 | Sam's new show, Baby Duma, described by Chortland as one of the definitive documents |
| 1:37.9 | of the trans experience in stand-up, is previewing now. |
| 1:41.9 | It was nominated for the best show at the Leicester Comedy Festival and will be |
| 1:45.9 | at the Edinburgh Fringe from the 30th of July to the 24th of August this year. It's on at 5.40 in the |
| 1:52.0 | afternoon at the Pleasant's courtyard. So let's discover the five things as Sam Nicaresti once in her |
| 1:57.8 | time capsule and a whole lot more about Sam as a person. |
| 2:01.9 | I'm pretty sure like me you're going to really like her. |
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