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CodeDS/UK/13179
NameFrost; Stephen "Steve" (1955-); English comedian
Dates1955-
GenderMale
RelationshipsSon of Sir Terry Frost, artist and brother of Anthony Frost, artist.
BiographyStephen Frost (born 28 December 1955), also known as Steve Frost, is an English comedian.

Frost is known for his work in the 1980s with Mark Arden as part of the double act The Oblivion Boys on Saturday Live. Veterans of the alternative comedy scene, he and Arden appeared in The Young Ones, and later had their own TV series Lazarus and Dingwall on BBC2. Frost has appeared on Radio 4's Just a Minute, and the improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He has appeared on three episodes of Have I Got News for You (there was a 13-year gap between his second and third appearance) and on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He also appeared as Dirk in Tony Bagley's series Married. He played two small roles in Blackadder. The first in "The Witch-Smeller Pursuivant" in the first series (The Black Adder), as a prison guard. The second in an episode of Blackadder Goes Forth: Corporal Punishment) as the overly-cheerful head of a firing squad sent by a court martial to shoot the lead character, played by Rowan Atkinson. He has worked consistently as a jobbing actor in British television.

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