Steve Hall

Fringe 2015 - Steve Hall: Zebra

The best-educated third of beloved Fringe losers, We Are Klang, and one of the main writers on Russell Howard's Good News, Steve Hall's latest solo Fringe show is not about zebras.

Interview: rarely asked questions - Steve Hall

I'm going to keep this short because Steve Hall, the zany arse, has provided Beyond The Joke with its longest-ever answer (on the thorny subject of laughter on TV).

Five fast Fringe questions with... Steve Hall

A quick interview with Steve Hall.

Steve Hall interview

Comedian Steve Hall talks to Martin Walker about writing for Russell Howard's Good News and Mock the Week, performing for We Are Klang and his new Edinburgh Festival Fringe show entitled Zebra.

Review: Comedy and curry night

The first Comedy and Curry night of the year didn't disappoint with host Tom Goodlife expertly introducing Ignacio Lopez, Matt Winning and Steve Hall.

Steve Hall interview

Self-Googling, trawling through tawdry pornography and watching fat people falling over are just some of the things UK stand-up comedian Steve Hall deems to be important tools of his trade.

After the japery of last year's hit-and-miss sitcom We Are Klang, silly comedy trio We Are Klang (Greg Davies, Steve Hall and Marek Larwood) get another pop at a BBC3 show. This time the Klangers are hosting a fictional revue show featuring the trio acting out various interviews, sketches and songs as different characters - often dressed in little but their pants. Its success will depend on whether audiences embrace or loathe Klang's slapstick, which veers towards the rambunctious rather than the surreal.

If slapstick be the food of love, play on. Though winning with its relentless stupidity, the Klang team's last series We Are Klang was not a complete success. It looked like too much of the fun was had in the studio without transmitting home. So the trio of stupid comedians (Steve Hall (Mike), Greg Davies (Rick), Marek Larwood (Vivian)) went away and refined their act. Well, refined is putting too fine a point on it.

They made a fake variety show featuring a lot of fake stupid acts. tvBite was totally won over by the arrival of Donkey Dunkirk, who dresses a donkey in a Nazi uniform and then punching it out cold. But we can understand if you think it sounds rubbish so here's a quick test to see if you will like it. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. How long would you have to repeat that for it to become funny? If fairly on you found a lot of 'stupid' very funny, tune in. If you can repeat it to yourself like Paxman asking Michael Howard a question, then avoid.