Samuel Pang

Sam Pang, born Samuel Pang (born November 3, 1973), is an Australian comedian, television presenter, writer, producer and former radio host. He is a host of The Front Bar with Mick Molloy and Andy Maher and is a regular panellist, alongside Ed Kavalee, on Network 10's Have You Been Paying Attention?. He also hosts his own weekly variety tonight show Sam Pang Tonight and plays the lead role in the ABC comedy Ground Up, which satirises the development of the Tasmanian football team. Pang has hosted the Logie Awards in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

Pang attended Gold Street Primary School and Kew High School, and studied marketing at university. He played Australian rules football for the Collingwood under-19s team in 1991, then played for clubs including Prahran in the VFA and Sandy Bay in Tasmania over a number of years. He turned to radio hosting at the age of 28, co-hosting Triple R's Breakfasters program for five years (2004-2008), and in January 2016 was appointed co-host of the Nova 100 breakfast program Chrissie, Sam & Browny with Chrissie Swan and Jonathan Brown, which ran for seven years.

On television, Pang's first hosting role was the 2009 SBS quiz show ADbc, and he did commentary work with Julia Zemiro on the Eurovision Song Contest as part of the Australian delegation from 2009 to 2017. Since 2013 he has been a regular panellist on Network 10's Have You Been Paying Attention?, and in 2015 he began co-hosting The Front Bar with Mick Molloy and Andy Maher. He hosted the Logie Awards in 2023, becoming the first solo host of the event in eleven years, and his talk/variety show Sam Pang Tonight premiered on Network 10 on 17 March 2025.