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Mark Steel

October 2023

  • Comedian and author Mark Steel in London.

    Mark Steel: ‘I have cancer and it feels like there’s a leopard in my house’

    The comedian was booked in for a biopsy after noticing a neck abnormality. Standups are used to leaving audiences jolly but he could not share his diagnosis without causing worry

May 2022

  • ‘I had a crush on Mark Steel. I can say that now as he is my beau’ … Shaparak Khorsandi.

    Comedy Q&A
    Shaparak Khorsandi: ‘Love your audience without caring who they vote for’

    The standup and author on what she’s learned from comedy, her traumatic gig at Glastonbury and who makes her howl with laughter

February 2019

  • Jeremy Hardy.

    '100% filled with mirth!' Comedians pay tribute to Jeremy Hardy

    The standup inspired Mark Thomas with his activism, opened Jack Dee’s eyes and appalled Mark Steel – in the best possible way

July 2018

  • Ashley Storrie, daughter of acclaimed Glaswegian performer Janey Godley.

    Funny bones run in the family as fringe plays host to comic dynasties

    This year’s Edinburgh festival features many young standups with parents – from Mark Steel to Gyles Brandreth – who blazed the same trail

October 2017

  • Sean Hughes

    'Charming, soulful, a proper comic': Sean Hughes tributes – and his funniest jokes

    By his mid-20s he had scooped the Perrier award and landed his own TV show. But Sean Hughes never wanted to be a stadium standup. Mark Steel and Rhona Cameron pay tribute to a troubled talent – and we pick some of his best gags

August 2017

  • Mark Steel

    The funniest thing
    Mark Steel: ‘Richard Pryor changed everything for me’

    The standup stalwart and TV host lets us in on the things that make him laugh the most, from The Simpsons to Monty Python

August 2015

  • Comedian Mark Steel. For Family.Photograph by Felix Clay

    Mark Steel at Edinburgh festival review – an extraordinary story of family detective work

    With its explorations of identity, Mark Steel’s account of how he traced his birth parents is astonishing

June 2015

  • mark steel

    Mark Steel: Finding out who I am

    Comedian and writer Mark Steel recently found out the story behind his adoption in 1960. And the truth was so extraordinary that you almost couldn’t make it up …

January 2014

  • Mark Steel

    Radio review
    Mark Steel's in Town; Chain Reaction – radio review

    Nosheen Iqbal: few comedians could get away with swipes at London's mini India – but then Mark Steel does do it with real affection

December 2012

  • susie orbach

    Rewind radio: Analysing the Sex Offender; Mark Steel's in Town; The Classic FM Interview; Lifecycle

    Susie Orbach's sober documentary about the sexual abuse of children was horrifying but timely, writes Miranda Sawyer

April 2010

  • Mark Steel's in Town; Case Notes; Sony awards nominations

  • Radio review
    Mark Steel's In Town

May 2009

  • Pick of the week: Comedy

    Scotland and Ireland: Ross Noble: Things | Mark Steel: What's Going On? | Jason Rouse

April 2009

  • Nicholas Lezard's choice
    Few things are funnier than ageing and disillusionment

    Review: What's going on? by Mark Steel
    One of the most gratifying things is the way the author tears into Tony Blair, New Labour and all that ghastly crew, Nicholas Lezard

March 2009

  • Mix blood and powdered egg to make ... an English hero

    Miranda Sawyer: It is such a pleasure to hear James Lovelock speak, to be allowed to absorb the workings of his brilliant mind

  • Comedy preview: Mark Steel: What's Going On?, Oxford, London

    North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford, Sun 29 Mar; Blackheath Halls, SE3, Fri 3 Apr

  • Pick of the week: Comedy

    London: Just The Tonic | Sit Down Sundays | Paradise Comedy Club | Mark Steel

December 2008

  • Pick of the week: Comedy

    North: The Mighty Boosh | Mark Steel | Charlie Baker | Lloyd Langford

November 2008

  • Pick of the week: South: Comedy

    Simon Day: What A Fool Believes | Mark Steel | Andrew Lawrence

October 2008

  • Comedy preview: Mark Steel, on tour

    Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury, Sat 1; Nottingham Playhouse, Sun 2; Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells, Thu 6; Corn Hall, Diss, Fri 7

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