Sam Nicoresti: Self-Expression, Identity and the Hunt for the Perfect Skirt Suit
Episode S4 · Ep 5 59 min 56s

Sam Nicoresti: Self-Expression, Identity and the Hunt for the Perfect Skirt Suit

Sam Nicoresti can move from the decline of Blockbuster to the philosophy of gendered spaces to the ethics of true crime podcasts in a single breath — and makes it all feel completely connected.

Sam Nicoresti is a British comedian, writer, and performer blending surrealism, satire, and political commentary in their stand-up and filmed work. Their recent filmed special, drawn from their Edinburgh Fringe show, has been hailed as a smart, subversive take on gender, media, and millennial weirdness.

  • What makes a comedy special, actually special — and why most of them aren't
  • How HMV's pivot away from physical media became a metaphor for something much larger
  • Why true crime podcasts are the new voyeurism — and what that says about all of us
  • The class constraints that shape which comedians get to tell which stories


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