Ep. 513 - Sam Williams
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Sam Williams is an award-winning comedian, writer, and actor who is known for his vivid confessional stand-up. His acclaim on the live circuit includes winning the Komedia New Comedy Award in 2023 and making his TV debut on BBC Three’s New Comedy Awards. He can also be seen on ITV2’s Standup Sketch Show and at the Pleasance Comedy Reserve at the Fringe. Sam’s social media presence is booming, with over 70,000 followers and over 100 million views on Instagram and TikTok. His writing credits span Late Night Mash, Almost Never, Newsjack, and Breaking The News. His debut hour at the Edinburgh Fringe this year (2025) is called Touch Me Not and at The Pleasance Reserve.
Sam Williams is our guest in episode 513 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
Buy tickets for Sam Williams’ Edinburgh show, Touch Me Not, here - https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/sam-williams-touch-me-not .
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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .
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| 1:13.3 | Music Works uncomplicates. Learn more at freshworks.com. Hello and welcome once again to my time capsule. I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is the podcast where I ask people to tell me five things from their life that they wish they had in a time capsule. They pick four things that they love and one thing they wish that they could bury and forget. My guest in this episode is the stand-up comedian and writer Sam Williams. |
| 1:16.9 | Sam is supposed to be at a monastery in France right now. |
| 1:20.4 | Instead, he's making his highly anticipated fringe debut, |
| 1:22.7 | which is an exciting thing for any performer. |
| 1:24.9 | His show is called Touch Me Not, |
| 1:27.6 | and he'll be doing it throughout the festival at the Pleasant's Courtyard. |
| 1:28.8 | He's described it as a show about love, and Sam's been described as the patron saint |
| 1:33.7 | of bisexuals, so it should be quite interesting. |
| 1:37.0 | Sam is fast becoming recognized as one of the rising stars of stand-up, with over 100,000 |
| 1:42.6 | followers on social media and over 130 million views online. |
| 1:47.9 | So now seems the time to talk to him and discover the things he cherishes and the one thing |
| 1:52.5 | he'd like to forget, before he becomes so successful that he doesn't have time, even for a time |
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