- Steve began his career in comedy as a stand up before finding notoriety as lounge cabaret performer Lenny Beige. After a Channel 4 show and 2 BBC TV series of Lenny Beige's Variety Pack Lenny Beige's Variety Pack (2000) Steve began to branch out into other character roles devising a few solo Edinburgh shows. In 2000 he began to appear in the award winning Orange Wednesday cinema commercials, largely directed by Bryan Buckley Bryan Buckley There were around 30 commercials featuring names as diverse as Snoop Dogg Snoop Dogg , Carrie Fisher Carrie Fisher, Patrick Swayze [name=nm0000664], Angelica Huston [name=nm0001378] , Spike Lee Spike Lee. He also appeared as a regular supporting actor in all three series of Little Britain Little Britain (2003) with Matt Lucas Matt Lucas and David Walliams David Walliams. He has appeared in many TV shows including (as a semi-regular Mr James) Holby City Holby City (1999), Doc Martin Doc Martin (2004), Toast of London Toast of London (2012), Friday Night Dinner Friday Night Dinner (2011), and most recently as the villain in CITV's new kids show Spy School.- IMDb mini biography by: Steve Furst
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- He performed as Mr Wormwood in the hit West End musical Matilda over 600 times.
- He is a big fan of Public Enemy and went to see them at the Roundhouse in London in June 2015. He is also a big fan of Anthony Newley and legendary rock star David Bowie.
- Steve was crap wizard Manitol in the BBCs children's series The Legend of Dick and Dom.
- Steve has provided the voice of one of the meerkats (Vassily) in the Compare The Market campaign.
- In 1993, he was a runner up at the So You Think You're Funny Contest at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
- The stupidity and rudeness of people in this country is just getting worse and it makes my blood boil. And the abuse on websites and so forth is disgusting.
- I hated Bernard Manning. I hated what he stood for. Jim Davidson makes me feel ill.
- [on Bernie Ecclestone] Like a pin-up from Middle Earth.
- [on Freddie Mercury] This is a man that lived life to the full.
- The further you go up the ladder the more money you make. You might not be as good looking but you're going to be earning more. Look at Alan Sugar, he looks like a lion's testicle but he's a very rich man. So he's not been burdened by beauty and good looks and he's kind of furthered his career, making rubbish computers that lost my dissertation in 1987. Yeah, night before I had to hand it in, thanks.
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