Mark Steel
- 64 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
Press clippings Page 7
Latitude: reflections on a weekend of comedy
Latitude has often used the tag-line 'more than just a music festival' and with an extensive arts line-up that's certainly true. The Suffolk festival has also grown into one of the largest comedy programmes on the circuit. The tents may now have been dismantled, but Fergus Morgan reflects back on a weekend's mirth in the festival's purple comedy arena.
Fergus Morgan, The Reviews Hub, 20th July 2016Latitude 2016: Mark Steel review
His set, a brilliantly funny mix of anecdotes, observational comedy, and socio-political satire, largely focusses on the various eccentricities and irrationalities of British society.
Fergus Morgan, The Reviews Hub, 17th July 2016Mark Steel review
The main strength of Who Do I Think I Am? is, however, Steel's warm and unaffected personality.
Dave Cunningham, The Reviews Hub, 27th May 2016Review - Mark Steel: Who Do I Think I Am?
The beautiful thing is that underneath the laughs, of which there are many, there is a very touching story here.
Raja Sharma, TV Bomb, 27th March 2016Young people don't own comedy - and nor should they
How dull would our lives be if we, in effect, introduce a mandatory retirement age for wisecracks?
The Independent, 19th March 2016Five things you might not know about . . . Mark Steel
The Kent-born comic, political rabble-rouser and former TV repair man takes a show about the story behind his heritage across the country.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 16th March 2016Review: #JC4PM, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Finding mainstream musicians prepared to stick their head above the parapet these days is no mean feat and so the textily-titled #JC4PM is headlined by Charlotte Church, who brought mighty, soaring vocals and left-of-centre electronica rather than rhetoric, with a support bill of speakers, poets and comedians, including veteran campaigners Jeremy Hardy, acting as MC for the evening, and Mark Steel, both of whom were happy to confront the prevailing political mood across the spectrum with some well aimed barbs.
Fiona Shepherd, The Scotsman, 10th March 2016Mark Steel: is comedy nature or nurture (Link expired)
He may not believe in a "joke-telling gene", but revelations about comedian Mark Steel's birth parents - and conversations with other adopted stand-ups - have got him thinking about what makes us who we are. He spoke to Jay Richardson about his acclaimed new show.
Jay Richardson, WOW247, 22nd February 2016Ivor Dembina interview
Martin Walker was so blown away by Ivor Dembina's 2014 Edinburgh Fringe offering, 'Old Jewish Jokes' that he handed it a five star review. The show garnered critical across the board and audiences, by and large, loved it. This year he's reprising Old Jewish Jokes as well as offering a follow-up, New Jewish Jokes and organising a very special event with Daniel Kitson, Mark Steel and Mark Thomas - Free Gaza!
Martin Walker, Broadway Baby, 23rd July 2015Who do you think you are, Mark Steel?
Veteran comic Mark Steel returns to Auld Reekie with a funny story about being adopted. Lewis Porteous quizzes the pro on the whys and wherefores.
Lewis Porteous, Fest Mag, 4th July 2015