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| Born | 30 September 1993 Singapore |
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| Years active | 2012–present |
| Website | Official website |
Sam See (born 30 September 1993) is a Singaporean stand up comedian and improvisor.
Sam See | |
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| Born | 30 September 1993 Singapore |
| Occupations |
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| Years active | 2012–present |
| Website | Official website |
Sam See (born 30 September 1993) is a Singaporean stand up comedian and improvisor.
Sam had his Primary and Secondary education at Saint Andrew's School, Singapore. After, he studied at Temasek Polytechnic, and was awarded The Integrated Infocomm Scholarship from the Infocomm Media Development Authority in 2010. [1] [2] [3]
In 2012, Sam started performing stand-up comedy in Singapore at an open mic called Talking Cock. He had previously discovered comedy online, performed by Kumar (Singaporean entertainer) and Eddie Izzard while schooling. He had also started to perform publicly as an openly gay man during this time. [4] [5] He has also worked as a showrunner and producer, and was the director of The Comedy Club. [6]
In 2019, See brought his stand-up comedy show, Coming Out Loud, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. [7] In August 2020, he released Coming Out Loud online. [8]
In 2022, See returned to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a second stand-up show, Government Approved Sex. [9] The show was based on See's experience of being approached by the National Library Board to run a panel course about sex and romance education. [10] During that same year, See was also one of ten writers long-listed for the 2023 Epigram Books Fiction Prize. [11]
In 2023, See brought Government Approved Sex to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival [12] and back again to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. [13] He performed the show in Singapore at the Drama Centre Theatre, before moving to London. [14] In December, See performed for the United Nations Human Rights Council's Stand-Up for Human Rights in Bangkok, in celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [15]
He also performs improv with the troupe The Latecomers. [3] [16]
In 2016, Sam was a performer on OK Chope!, a weekly live comedy panel show in Singapore where he appeared in all thirty episodes as a panelist and an on-location reporter. The show was cancelled after a joke made by another panelist about Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak. [4] [17]
In 2019, See appeared on Comedy Central Stand-Up, Asia! for its fourth season. [18] He also appeared on The Jim Jefferies Show in an interview segment about Singaporean civil liberties. [19] He also appeared on BBC World Service to discuss performing stand-up in Singapore. [20]
In 2022, See provided the voice for various characters on Channel 5's Puberteens, including Winston, Marco & Benji.
In 2020, Sam started streaming online in March on Facebook and YouTube, before moving to Twitch under the username 'MrSamSee'. Besides streaming video game content, he also ran a tabletop roleplaying series called Red Dot Wrestling, which featured various professional wrestlers like Singapore Pro Wrestling Champion Da Butcherman, Malaysia Pro Wrestling Champion Cornelius LOW, Jake De Leon, and NXT wrestler Dante Chen. [21] [22]
| Year | Programme | Role | Notes |
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| 2016–2017 | OK Chope! | Self - Panelist | 30 episodes |
| 2019 | The Jim Jefferies Show | Self - Interviewee | Episode: "The Cost of Trading Away Freedom" |
| 2019 | Comedy Central Stand-Up, Asia! | Self - Comedian, Millennial Retiree | |
| 2022 | Puberteens | Winston / Marco / Benji / Tomas / Yusuf / Tape Monkey / Chad / Cole / Boon-Nam (voice) | 14 episodes |
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