Sugar Sammy

Samir Khullar (born 29 February 1976), known professionally as Sugar Sammy, is a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer from Montreal, Quebec.

With a career spanning over 25 years, he has performed in 31 countries, including Canada, the US, France, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and India.

[7] Sugar Sammy was one of the first comedians to share his crowd work online, he started his YouTube channel in 2010, amassing a combined 200 million views across all social media platforms.

"You're Gonna Laugh") premiered in Quebec in 2012,[17] earning $17.4 million over four and a half years, and in the process becoming the most successful solo comedy show in Montreal.

This marketing campaign, designed by Sid Lee, garnered much attention from Quebec media and was the centre of heated debates between different linguistic communities in the province.

[22] In 2011, Sugar Sammy performed his (then) one-night-only bilingual show, You're Gonna Rire, in a language called "Franglais", an ode to the common Montreal experience of switching between English and French throughout the day.

[32] Sugar Sammy celebrated the launch by performing five shows at the Olympia Theatre and giving out numbered, limited edition, DVD box sets to the 6,500 fans who attended the event.

[33] Sugar Sammy developed and tested his show "Les préliminaires" at Le Point Virgule in Paris, from September 2016 through December 2016.

[34] A pure "American stand-up" style show, with just a microphone and no censorship, Sugar Sammy's act included his point of view as a world-travelled Canadian now living in Paris.

[36] After selling over 25,000 tickets and presenting over 134 performances in France, Sugar Sammy was dubbed the "Best of 2017" by Paris Match magazine, who referred to his show as "grand art".

[37] Thanks to the success of his first run, Sugar Sammy continued his residency at the Alhambra Theatre until December 2018, as well as touring the rest of France, Belgium and Switzerland.

[44] Due to popular demand, the special was eventually released on DVD, where it went straight to #1 on the stand-up comedy best-sellers list on Amazon Canada.

A buddy comedy à la Wedding Crashers and Swingers, inspired by the lives of the two writer-comedians, the series follows their searches for love, their relationships with their families and how they deal with the rules of their own friendship.