Sign in

Sam Wilkinson

@wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social
80 followers 176 following 110 posts

Comedian, podcaster, one half of Crossland & Wilkinson. Chat out of Hell pod reviews Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman songs every other Monday!

PostsRepliesMedia
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My favourite X-Files episodes are when an X-File happens to them while they're not even at work. Scully goes on holiday. BANG! GHOST! Mulder gets his car washed. BOSH! SPOOKY VAMPIRE SPONGE.
121
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our primary school head once talked us through the fingers on the hand one by one, pausing to swear at the whole assembly while saying "and now the big strong middle finger".
010
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just thinking about when Criag David imagined that "on the TV" is a normal place to leave all your money.
001
Reposted by Sam Wilkinson
Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The media treating this story as some hilarious 'village that roared' nighy-dench-mirren movie is pissing me right the fuck off. It's soft-selling fascism. We have become an inward looking, xenophobic joke.
1152795
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I've had a folding phone for five years now and I'll be furious if people think I'm copying Apple.
000
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh no, not Dolly. If anyone deserved immortality it was her. A life well lived.
000
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Prime Video has started putting up captions of writing that's on screen and it's irritating the crap out of me.
000
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Me talking about ticket sales.
010
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Tell you what, when you see a gig poster advertising a lineup of identical white men for the umpteenth time in a row, you have to wonder why these promoters aren't ashamed of themselves. You have one job!
120
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Chat out of Hell is back for series seven with a chat about Jim Steinman's solo effort Stark Raving Love and manage not to insult him too hard for once, then it's off to see where Meat Loaf's ended up during the filming of the Razor's Edge video. Find Chat out of Hell whever you find your podcasts!
121
Reposted by Sam Wilkinson
Scott Butterfield @soldwindle.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is lovely Someone put £500 behind the till of my local independent bookshop (Storytellers, Inc in St Annes, Lancashire) to celebrate their 50th birthday, and the owner is giving the books it paid for out at random to customers ♥️ @cloveroverover.bsky.social
Picture of a book called On Calculations of Volume by Solvej Balle on a sofa with a bookmark showing a line drawing of a bird and the social media details of Storytellers, Inc
513037
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Joe Pera Talks With You
000
Reposted by Sam Wilkinson
Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
236127512769
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This was great fun, if you've not seen Ian Visible yet (who has?) he had a cracking night here.
030
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I am hypnotised by the ad where the lady in a fake podcast studio says "crispy chicken, handcut fries, top it all off with Heinz tomato ketchup. It's perfection." Every time it appears in a feed I watch it three or four times. I want to know more about the Heinz podcast universe.
010
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Hamnet is a devastatingly good film. Take a hankie.
000
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
2026 is going to feature more Luxury Bedtimes. Currently the count is 1.
120
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
If you were too busy having festive fun yesterday you may have missed that #ChatoutofHell dropped an interview with the brilliant and very kind Rory Dodd. Why not force your family to enjoy it over cold turkey today? open.spotify.com/show/7mvE0uk...
open.spotify.com
Chat out of Hell's Rory Dodd Interview
001
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Live your life in such a way that a city full of muppets doesn't sing about what a tosser you are whenever you open your front door.
010
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
The one thing I don't get about Muppet Christmas Carol is why anyone has kept trying to make new adaptations after it. Like that musical one with Kelsey Grammar, that would be fine in a pre-muppet world but afterwards it's just embarrassing.
010
Reposted by Sam Wilkinson
Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Want to hear about my worst ever Christmas Day? Sure you do. 20-ish years ago, my then-girlfriend said her brother had invited us to spend Christmas day with him and his girlfriend at said girlfriend's mum's house. Sounds cosy, right? Nope. 1/
713936
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
This is a great thread on the US-UK Christmas Music disparity.
000
Reposted by Sam Wilkinson
But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 13/12/2025
There's plenty not to like about British Xmas music, especially if you ever had to work in retail or pubs in December, but it's fundamentally *party* music. US Xmas music is schmaltz.
1014626
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
This was some top notch nonsense to record. And the whole series had been dead good so far, too!
011
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Excited to announce that winter coat season has begun.
000
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Chat out of Hell is cracking on with series 5! Continuing the theme of doing themes, this episode we take a look at two rockin' songs about heroes. And somehow made it through the whole thing without once talking about Cadbury's Heroes. Well done us. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
podcasts.apple.com
Episode 5.2 - A Time For Heroes | Holding Out For a Hero
Podcast Episode · Chat out of Hell · 09/08/2025 · 43m
021
Reposted by Sam Wilkinson
Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
One for @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social - I was reading this morning about the Asda 'Price Promise' stones that were erected across the country in the 90s loststonesofasda.wordpress.com Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire
A stone that looks like a prehistoric standing stone but inscribed with "Asda Price Promise Permanently [text obscured] prices [text obscured].

The stone is by a Drystone wall and vegetation grows around it
27486172
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
This is among the worst ideas I've ever seen.
010
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Big shout out to the band of teenagers playing a very loud cover of Creep in the middle of Leeds today.
000
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
It is proper dweeb behaviour. Yorkshire does have loads of brilliant stuff, and maybe even more brilliant stuff than other counties, which it achieves by being bigger than them. Brilliant stuff distribution per square mile is pretty standardised.
000
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Am I supposed to recognise the three tossers on the Trivago advert?
000
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
We ended Chat out of Hell series four by giggling about Meat Loaf's Meat Loaf and two Veg Loaf. And rightly so. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
podcasts.apple.com
Episode 4.6 - Kickapoo | California Isn't Big Enough (Hey There Girl)
Podcast Episode · Chat out of Hell · 06/30/2025 · 43m
020
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Idea for a film: a poor working class boy in 21st Century Sheffield is bullied by his siblings and teachers but finds happiness in his copy of Kes on DVD. At the end his brother puts it in the bin because who watches DVDs nowadays.
100
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
In Chat out of Hell this week we dive into Meat's first recorded album and then some shouty angry MAN ROCK from one of his later ones. Find it wherever you find your podcasts. Or on this link here! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
podcasts.apple.com
Episode 4.3 - (I
Podcast Episode · Chat out of Hell · 05/19/2025 · 41m
010
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Switzerland is giving me Regina Spektor vibes. #eurovision
010
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
"Let your brother do this #eurovision thing! He can just sit at the front and play cello, nobody will notice."
000
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
It's a lovely song, Italy, but why the Boosh tribute act? #eurovision
010
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Latvia is quite nice, but it's the theme to a Civilization game, not a #Eurovision entry.
020
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I saw Estonia in the semis and may I say I have no idea why they remain unmurdered by the Italian delegation. Looking forward to the UK song next year "onh onh onh, je suis beaucoup French" #eurovision
000
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Shit, it's the set from Finders Keepers, the less good sibling to Fun House #eurovision
000
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Norway is all dressed up like Cate Blanchett in that Thor film she was in. #eurovision
010
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Here we go lads! Turn the nonsense up to 11. #eurovision
000
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Ah, go on then. Space Eurovision Doctor Who was excellent all around.
000
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This whole Whoniverse thing is an upsettingly pathetic act of "look at us, we're just like Marvel". It's fine. Leave it alone. You can make spinoffs without it.
010
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I love Spring. This bit is the best two weeks of the year.
A black and white dog sits on a path surrounded by fallen pink blossom petals. She gives the camera a big goofy smile.A black and white dog wearing a red harness is sitting in an old graveyard. The floor is covered in pink blossom petals. The dog is giving the camera a serious look like a 19th Century portrait.A close up of a single cherry blossom.A black and white dog sits in the foreground, looking up at the camera. The rest of the photo is a sea of pink cherry blossom leaves. The dog looks very pleased with herself.
000
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Chat out of Hell is back to go where other podcasts won't - in this case, to Jim Steinman's very first musical. Produced at Amherst College in 1969, burning a trail through rock and roll history for the rest of time and not very good. Listen where you get pods! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
podcasts.apple.com
Episode 4.1 - The Dream Engine (Dream Engine) (Dreams) (Engines)
Podcast Episode · Chat out of Hell · 04/21/2025 · 46m
010
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Next Chat out of Hell is going to be extra good now.
111
Sam Wilkinson @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
My hottest take is that Night Tracks finishes too early these days.
000
Reposted by Sam Wilkinson
Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Nice people are struggling over the revelations on Gaiman, and something I keep hearing is, 'His work had a big influence on how I shaped my own identity.' So here's something to remember: You did that. He didn't do it for you. 1/
6233961365
Reposted by Sam Wilkinson
Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Mary when he actually starts to play a fucking drum for a sleeping baby
Bill Murray half smile/half wince
324350