Photo by Troy Conrad: Comedy Store Hallway Series
“SAG is a maven of comedy. He makes stream of consciousness look easy. He makes belligerence fun. He makes taking comedy seriously lighthearted. He makes me laugh.” -- Beth Lapides; creator and producer of Uncabaret (and Sex Goddess, IMHO)
STEVEN ALAN GREEN
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Steven is now the producer of The Frazer Smith Show on 95.5 KLOS. He books guests, provides content, and is “Dax Weasleton,” Frazer’s terrible Hollywood agent. Tune in Sundays at 10 PM. Recent guests: Margaret Cho, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, and Alice Cooper.
"I didn’t really have any free time, but once I started listening to your podcast I was hooked. You have an exceptional talent, shared by some of the best schmoozers in the hey-day of New York radio, such that even when there’s not really much to talk about, your personality, voice and engaging style just suck people in."
-- Oscar, Emmy Award, BAFTA award winning Hollywood producer Julian Krainin
WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGe
Important background info: My set opens with a seemingly nasty comment about the host. What happened was the host/producer introduced me while I was still in the green room. And, being a stand-up for decades, I knew the audience would think that I was unprofessional for not showing up. So…I told my friend I was going to say something shocking and told him what it was and do I have his and his wife’s permission. They said go for it.
Riffing with the crowd at The Frog and Bucket Comedy Club, Manchester, England
bio
Multi-award winning comedian and filmmaker Steven Alan Green is part of the original Comedy Store stable of comedians and writers. In 1981, at the ripe young age of 24, and with little standup experience in his bag, Steven was magically made a “Paid Regular” comic at the legendary comedy club. New York born and Hollywood raised, Steven has done, tried, and often accomplished, dozens of disparate and related entertainment disciplines, including: Stage, film, and television acting, standup comedy, writing sketch comedy, jokes (for Leno, Arsenio, Jimmy Walker, and Roseanne), screenplays, novels, voice-overs, wrote and directed a multi-award winning short film in the UK, and producing one of the most talked about televised live events in British television history.
Steven plucks his G-string.
His trademark “farewell performances only” stand-up act garnered him great attention across the States, Canada, and on the London comedy scene throughout the Nineties. Steven has appeared on Conan as an actor, famously doing a scene with Conan, which was finally broadcast in 2014. His varied and versatile voice-over and on-camera commercial and film work in the UK includes voicing international media companies such as Warner Bros., Comedy Central UK, and the BBC itself as a sidekick on Radio Scotland. Steven was the voice of American television, voicing promos for American sitcoms such as Everybody Loves Raymond and Trailer Park Boys, which led to on-camera work with Steven hosting South Park Weekend for Comedy Central UK (then known as The Paramount Comedy Channel) in the character of a crazed American televangelist.
In 2000 Steven created and produced the the very first “High On Laughter” UK comedy galas which included guest star George Wendt (“Norm” from Cheers), benefitting a drug and alcohol charity launched by Princess Diana. HOL II took place at the 3,300 seat Edinburgh Playhouse. The 3rd one took place at The London Palladium, featuring the best of American and British stand-up comedy, including Zach Galifianakis, Bobcat Goldthwait, and Jim Gaffigan, and honoring the late comedy icon Jerry Lewis. High On Laughter III was broadcast on Bravo UK. The unexpected international news making events of that evening led to his much lauded one-man show “I Eat People Like YOU for Breakfast!” followed by interest from Hollywood to develop his life-story into a movie.
In 2007 Steven wrote and directed the multi-award winning short “Little Things”, which he’s currently developing for a feature film. In 2009, Steven founded The Laughter Foundation, a 501 non-profit to help comedians with financial grants and offer therapy as an alternative to comedian suicide.
More information on The Laughter Foundation here.
NOTE The Laughter Foundation is no more. Not at this point, anyway.
Ironically, Steven actually started on the music circuit as a singer/songwriter. He’s played and sung at venues such as F. Scotts in Venice Beach, The Natural Fudge in Hollywood, The Troubadour, and The Blah Blah Cafe. He transitioned to standup comedy clubs when his legendary extemporanea took over his musical act. On a lark, he auditioned at The Comedy Store and voilà!, he was crowned “Paid Regular Comedian” by the late Mitzi Shore, founder and queen of The Comedy Store.
Here’s my stand-up and acting from England. London Palladium performance included. Enjoy!
Commercial I did recently for Fox Sports. I’m the guy with the beard @ 10 seconds asking if baseball is like cricket. I appear again later in video with the dart player. Enjoy!
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Lakers owner Johnny Buss has recently come on board to try and help us help comedians and build The Comedy Museum. Disclosure: Just 3 meetings so far and we’re taking things a step at a time. After all, he’s got a new comedy club to run!
By the way, I told Johnny, “Don’t trade LeBron for Carrot Top! (he laughed)
“The consummate American entertainer!” - Davey from The List, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Photo by the great Troy Conrad’s “Hallway Series”, The Comedy Store.
High On Laughter III was produced and broadcast from The London Palladium. Featuring 15 British and American comedians, including Zach Galifiniakis, Jim Gaffigan, and Emo Philips, and benefiting Turning Point Scotland. More info
“Steven Alan Green brought down the house and was simply AMAZING!” – Peter Baird, executive producer East Bay Stand Down: The Benefit for Homeless Vets, Sept. 2014
“Steven Alan Green possesses the kind of writing that reminds you of when better writers were in the fore. He has a twist to the twist of phrase, that is his own. I am a big fan of his words.” -- Rick Overton, comedian & actor, HBO and Soderbergh’s, “The Informant”, and regular on Showtime's I'm Dying Up Here.
Read greatly written preview of The Rising Fool by Burt Kearns!
STEVEN’S SHOWBIZ CAREER IN BULLET POINTS:
Former child actor, born in Long Island, raised in Beverly Hills & Phoenix.
Stand-up comedian with a legendary act where every show was his last. SEE A RECENT STAND-UP PERFORMANCE
Joke writer for Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall, Jimmy JJ Walker, & Roseanne.
A product of The Comedy Store (Hollywood), Steven hit his stride in London, England in the 90's British Comedy Boom, where he headlined major comedy clubs, did 4 one-man shows at The Edinburgh Fringe, and hosted (in character) Comedy Central UK's South Park Weekend.
Steven created and produced an international comedy charity television show, which featured several American comedy acts, plus a one Jerry Lewis.
Steven’s one-man show “I Eat People Like YOU for Breakfast!” became the talk of the 2003 Edinburgh Fringe Festival which led to collaboration with an Oscar winning producer, with a view to develop the story into a feature film.
Steven has performed well over 5,000 farewell performances, starting at The Comedy Store, then spreading across Canada, the US and the UK and Europe. Every show his last. His farewell performance act came out of his frustrations with the business and his insight into being addicted to comedy.
Steven is a very busy writer for working and developing stand-ups. A busy screenwriter and active stand-up, Steven also teaches writing and stand-up online.
Steven appeared on Conan in 2014 playing “Joey Clams” the hotshot salesman fencing with Conan.
Steven played the title role of Archie Black: The world’s Worst in Dave Sirus’s mockumentary about the comedy business.
Steven has done a lot of voice overs for prestigious corporate entities such as British Airways, Comedy Central UK, Gallo Wine, Garmin Navigation, State Farm, Warner Brothers, and the BBC.
Steven founded Pandelic Films, Ltd. and Inc. in 2007. A London based independent film development company focused on British style and quality films for the American market.
Steven’s short film “Little Things” won “Best Dark Comedy Short” 4 times at international film festivals.
Steven is currently developing a film based on “Little Things” called “Dark Corners”.
Steven Alan Green’s name up on the legendary Comedy Store wall.
“He exists on the very edge of “unlikable showbiz American”, like a cross between Danny De Vito and Sgt. Bilko, which makes him all the more entertaining to watch!” - Kate Copstick, The Scotsman, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival
“SAG is a maven of comedy. He makes stream of consciousness look easy. He makes belligerence fun. He makes taking comedy seriously lighthearted. He makes me laugh.” -- Beth Lapides; creator and producer of Uncabaret (and Sex Goddess, IMHO)
Steven is currently writing a handbook on how to do standup comedy. Projected publishing date is October.
This site dedicated to my late mother, the great and inspirational Gloria Green! Who was this amazing woman and I’ll definitely write about her one day . Miss you, Mother….
