Jacob Samuel is a Canadian stand-up comedian from
Vancouver,
British Columbia. He is most noted for his 2020 comedy album ''Horse Power'', which won the
Juno Award
The Juno Awards, more popularly known as the JUNOS, are awards presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of ...
for
Comedy Album of the Year at the
Juno Awards of 2021.
He regularly appears on the
CBC Radio comedy series ''
The Debaters'', and appeared in the 2020 web series ''
The New Wave of Standup
''The New Wave of Standup'' is a Canadian comedy web series, which premiered in 2020 on CBC Gem.Tom Zillich"‘That night was so much fun’: Surrey-raised comedian in ‘New Wave of Standup’ series" ''Surrey Now-Leader'', July 8, 2020. The serie ...
''.
[Tom Zillich]
"‘That night was so much fun’: Surrey-raised comedian in ‘New Wave of Standup’ series"
''Surrey Now-Leader
''The Now'' newspaper, also referred to as ''Surrey Now'', was a tabloid established in 1984 that publishes twice a week with local news on Surrey, North Delta and White Rock in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
In 2015, Glacier Media ...
'', July 8, 2020.
In addition to his stand-up comedy work Samuel is also a cartoonist, whose work has appeared in various magazines including ''
The New Yorker''.
[Jon Cranny]
"That Time I Bombed: Jacob Samuel's giant drawing pad couldn't even save him"
'' The Georgia Straight'', February 17, 2017.
References
21st-century Canadian comedians
Canadian male comedians
Canadian stand-up comedians
Canadian editorial cartoonists
Artists from Vancouver
Comedians from Vancouver
Jewish Canadian artists
Jewish Canadian comedians
Living people
Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year winners
Year of birth missing (living people)
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