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Writing Workshops
Punching
Above
Weight
with Sam See
Date & Time: 17 June 2023, Saturday, 11a.m - 1p.m.
Venue: Sing Lit Station, #02-01, 22 Dickson Road, Singapore 209506
This will be an in-person programme.
Only fully vaccinated particpants are allowed.
In this panel and writing workshop, we dive into how you can find humour in the every day.
Comedy is often think of lightweight. But, more often than not, there’s more that what meets the eye. The most adept comedic artist wield comedy like a sharp knife, others like a glass of whiskey. But, what makes something actually funny?
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Sam See
Sam See is an award nominated stand-up comedian currently based in Singapore. He has headlined in over 25 different countries, garnered over 5.5 million views online, and has crowd-surfed three times. And who said comedians can’t write: Sam was longlisted for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize in 2022!
Sam has sold out shows in Melbourne, Hong Kong, London, Tokyo, Berlin, the USA and Italy, and has also worked with and opened for Dara Ó Briain (IRE/UK), Bert Kreischer (US), Gina Yashere (US/UK), Jim Jefferies (AUS/US) & Kevin Bridges (SCO). Sam was also featured on Comedy Central Asia's Stand-Up Asia, as one of their top twelve comedians from Asia. He has also been on The Jim Jefferies Show (Comedy Central US), MTV, and was a permanent panelist on Singapore’s first ever comedy panel show, OK Chope (Channel 5).
His shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has received the first Five-Star review for an act from South East Asia (On The Mic), and his recent 2022 show, Government Approved Sex, was on Fest Mag’s list of The Best of the Edinburgh Festivals. He also received fourteen 4 Star reviews from a Pakistani content farm that all copied another review but hey, a review’s a review.
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