Elliot Steel
- English
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
Press clippings
Post Office Scandal musical axed due to Paula Vennells "sensitivities"
Post Office Scandal The Musical, the latest show from The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, has been cancelled at the Bedfringe comedy festival because of the event's ties to disgraced former Post Office boss Paula Vennells.
British Comedy Guide, 31st May 2024Elliot Steel issues a content warning after two people pass out in his Edinburgh Fringe show
Elliot Steel has had to put a trigger warning in his Edinburgh Fringe show after two people fainted while hearing a graphic description of a nasty jiu-jitsu injury.
Chortle, 10th August 202315 comedy shows you need to see at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023
As the world's biggest arts festival returns, here's our must-see shows from the brightest talents in British comedy.
Nooruddean Choudry, Rolling Stone, 21st July 2023Review: Fast Fringe at Leicester Square Theatre
This bumper London edition of Edinburgh treat Fast Fringe is a wham-bam parade of quick-as-lightning stand up, sketches and musical comedy. The night is the perfect fringe megamix of three-minute wonders, perfect for those with goldfish-like attention spans.
Rupert Dannreuther, To Do List, 17th July 2023Edinburgh 2023: Elliot Steel Q&A
Love and Hate Speech comes to Underbelly this August.
Natalie O'Donoghue, Broadway World, 8th June 2023Underbelly puts more Edinburgh shows on sale
Underbelly has announced a host of new shows for their Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 programme.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th March 2023Mark and Elliot Steel's sitcom Unite returning to Radio 4
Mark and Elliot Steel's sitcom Unite is returning to Radio 4. Claire Skinner and Ivo Graham also reprise their roles in the comedy.
British Comedy Guide, 8th September 2022Radio 4 comedies nominated in BBC Audio Awards 2020
Various Radio 4 comedies have been nominated in the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2020.
British Comedy Guide, 8th January 2021Edinburgh Fringe comedy goes gender-fluid
Did you hear the one about the stand-up comedian's mother-in-law? She's a hard-working lawyer who was really supportive when the kids were born and he's extremely grateful actually.
Stephen Armstrong, The Sunday Times, 11th August 2019Live review: English Comedian of the Year Final 2017
This year's final of the English Comedian of the Year proved one thing. You don't actually have to be English to be eligible, but maybe it helps. It also helps, of course, if you are funny, and the standard of this year's final confirmed that regardless of nationality, stand-up comedy is in pretty good health.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 6th September 2017