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Mark Steel
Mark Steel has performed as a stand-up comedian on the British comedy circuit and on national tours since 1983.
In 1992 he presented a satirical radio show
'The Mark Steel Solution' on BBC Radio 5, consisting of half hourly monologues which offered solutions to social problems. It ran to four series.
'It's Not a Runner Bean', a comic autobiography, was published in 1996, and this led to a column in 'The Guardian', where his writing career really took off.
Mark then wrote a column for 'The Guardian' between 1996 and 1999. He was sacked by that newspaper, according to him because 'The Guardian' wanted to
"realign towards Tony Blair" - though 'The Guardian' denies this. In 2000 he started writing a weekly column for 'The Independent', which appears in the
Wednesday Opinion Column.
In 2000 Mark took part in the London Assembly elections on behalf of the London Socialist Alliance (a pre-cursor to the Socialist Alliance) in the
Croydon & Sutton constituency; he received 1,823 votes (1.5 per cent of the vote).
He has written and performed several radio and television series for the 'BBC', and authored several books.
Website(s): www.marksteelinfo.com, Mark's writing for The Independent
Next appearance at The Funny Side:
To Be Announced
