COMEDIANS

Steve has photographed over 1000 comedians for two photography books - Comedy Snapshots, published by Articul8 Publishing, April 2014 and Joker Face published by Unbound, September 2017. Steve has taken head shots and live action shots for many comedians and authors for their PR, brochure, live shows and books including David Baddiel, Tim Key, Alan Davies and Mark Billingham. Steve toured his fine art exhibition Clicking Comedians following a month at the prestigious Stills Gallery, Edinburgh during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It then toured much of the UK and went back to the Edinburgh Festival to the Pleasance. His new exhibition, Comedians: Back to Front is now in London at the Observatory Photography Gallery. Three of his photographs were chosen for the Saatchi Gallery on screen. One of his photographs was shortlisted for the RA Summer exhibition 2020. Steve Best has built a reputation as a great visual comic, harnessing a mind-boggling array of gadgets and gags to keep his audience in stitches. Funny, frenetic and mad, his unique form of slapstick comedy is backed up with astounding talent; he plays the guitar like a genius, is wonderful at magic, and fluent in Serbo-Croatian. Steve is a regular on the nationwide comedy circuit; As a headline act, Steve has gone on to perform all over the world including Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bali, Shanghai, South Africa, The Falkland Islands, Bosnia, Kosovo, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Southend-on-Sea. He plans to go further afield. His UK profile has been hugely boosted by supporting some major tours, including Frank Skinner, Omid Djalili and Craig Charles. With Frank Skinner, Steve was part of the biggest live comedy show at Battersea Power Station playing in front of 6000 people. He has headlined an extensive university tour and took his own show to the Edinburgh to massive critical acclaim. Steve co-wrote and performed two sketch shows, Death By Sketches and Skitzaphrantic for the Edinburgh Festival. Steve starred in C5's The Big Stage, BBC1's The Stand Up Show, and ITV’s Weapons of Mass Distraction. He starred in a Film Four/Channel Four short film Life as we know it. He was the audience warm up performer for the Skinner and Baddiel, Unplanned live TV show as well as for Frank Skinner’s chat show. Joe Bor has just made a feature length documentary, Clowntographer about Steve’s search for what makes a great comedy photograph.