Stephen Catling

a high energy surrealist clown , a rising star of the comedy circuit. Stephen has many awards , finals and semifinals to his name and is praised for his originality and left field thinking. I have done 1500+ gigs. accolades: Keep It Fringe award winner 2023 Spitfire most unique act of the year award 2024 Shortlisted for BBC new comedy award 2023 Shortlisted for The Malcom hardee award for originality 2023 & 2025 Shortlisted for The Neurodiverse review awards 2023 Shortlisted for Luke Rollason memorial bursary 2023 So you have never heard of me runnerup 2025 and dirtest mouth award winner 2025 Get up standup finalist 2025 Halifax Comedy Festival comedian of the year 2025 Dirty dozen finalist 2025 Leicester Square new comedian finalist 2023 Stand-up for cider finalist 2023 Monty's Stand-up Nights Competition Finalist 2019 Chortle student comedian of the year semi-finalist 2022 Southcoast comedian of the year semifinalist 2022 Max Turner semi-finalist 2020 quotes and reviews from the industry: 5 stars The Crumb 4 stars Fringe fry up 4 stars london theatre 1 4 stars Neurodiverse review "For if there’s one thing guaranteed in Catling’s work, it’s that you’ll see things that you definitely won’t experience anywhere else in comedy." Chortle "Very unique act in a strange but absolutely hilarious way had audience howling. " The Stand Edinburgh "Delivering what is possibly one of my favourite pieces of crowd work- just pure delight" LMAOnaise comedy "Magnificently irreverent...charming and utterly bonkers " The Review Hub "I was judging and like him" Beyond the joke "His best moments lean into this uniqueness, as he considers things in a highly literal way, producing some very funny comparisons and perceptions, and his delivery is brilliantly playful" Everything theatre "I found myself at different times laughing out loud, staring wide-eye’d, gushing with joy & wondering what the damninnit was going on!" Mumble notable gigs i have done and doing include: jokes on us anthony j brown gigs West End Comedy Club funhouse comedy xs malarkey, just the tonic influential comedy Glee ACMS monkey barrel