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Joe Ford @docoho44.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Comedian, author, and all round genius, Steffan Alun joins me to dissect one of the most magnificent of New Series Adventures... @steffanalun.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I'm bringing my new show to Edinburgh for the full run! After last year's (award-winning!) debut, I've spent the last 11 months crafting a brand-new hour of comedy - and I think it's the best thing I've ever written. Book your tickets here: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

A poster for STEFFAN ALUN: WINDOWS

I'm wearing a lovely suit, and sitting in a window that looks like it could belong to your grandparents. Lace curtains and floral wallpaper.

The show is at 6.15pm from 7 to 31 August. The venue is Hoots at Apex.

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm performing my new show in London on Wednesday! Come and see! I'll discuss pub quizzes, Stranger Things, behaviour on public transport, and why my mother's pretending my childhood home contained an extra bedroom. www.museumofcomedy.com/steffan-alun...

A poster for my new show in London, and I look absolutely lovely in it. Like I'm on the front cover of Smash Hits. I can't express how much you'd fancy me based on this picture.

Oh, and it's the Museum of Comedy on 8 July at 7pm.

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Oh, this is wonderful! What a lovely podcast.

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Very excited about this! I love Grace's writing.

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Aha, and I'm delighted to find you here!! So pleased to see where your art has taken you!

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Last few tickets here: www.wmc.org.uk/en/whats-on/...

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Steffan Alun: Stand-Up

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

STEFFAN ALUN: STAND UP comes to WMC Cardiff tonight! Small number of tickets still available - linked in the replies. Help me sell it out! Someone asked me what I bring to my shows, so here you go. Details in the alt text!

1. Laptop (for making notes to help remember the show)

2. Notebook and pens (for making notes when I remember I don't like using the laptop)

3. Toiletries and hairbrush (people paid good money, they deserve me at my hottest)

4. Novel (which I won't get around to reading)

5. Puzzle book (only difficult puzzles remaining, boo)

6. Rubik's cube (trying to master it because my 6-year-old niece keeps asking me to solve hers)

7. Outfit for first half (with bi pride pin!)

8. Outfit for second half (needs ironing)

9. Kitchen timer (if you know you know)

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Secret Invasion killed my interest in MCU, and since then I've not watched any new TV that wasn't explicitly recommended by someone I trust.

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Thank you, Whitney - I *also* hope to have an absolute blast at this gig which happened 6 months ago!

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James Ross @jamesrosscomedy.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Undecided on coming to LAST QUANTUM LEOPARD OF THE YEAR in December ( www.ticketsource.co.uk/quantum-leop... for tickets!)? THREE of our lovely feature acts (Bethany Black, @steffanalun.bsky.social, Katie Mitchell) have all done episodes of the QL podcast (links in thread):

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I'm going in the other direction, but you were right to identify the Welshness of this anecdote!

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I've missed late night trains! Drunk women are belting out I Dreamed A Dream. I am shocked by every single line as I learn what they think the lyrics are. Only one of them was brave enough to belt the final high note. "Oh my God you can SING 🥹🥹🥹" said one of the others. (She can't, really.)

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Ooh, that would be wonderful. (Comedians Play Videogames will also be continuing in a new form!)

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Thank you!! And thanks for recommending my show to your friends!

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

So kind!! Thanks so much for coming along. 💚💚

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

So my plans scale up! A tour. And work on a follow-up show - which has to be better than the first, of course. I have a mailing list now! Join me: gmail.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

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Steffan Alun: Standup Comedian

Steffan Alun: Standup Comedian Email Forms

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

For the final performance, the room was full to the brim (one comedian sat in the tech seat), and my show received a standing ovation. I've NEVER experienced that EVER - it was the most surreal thing. The reviews and award are lovely. But the audience response is the most important thing.

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I wrote up a list of my reviews and achivements, and filled out the rest of the page with wonderful audience reviews from the EdFringe website. I printed them myself, and stapled them individually to my flyers.

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

On the final weekend, I won the Pegasus Award for Best Newcomer! I love the Pegasus Awards. Richard Wright's hilarious night, celebrating underdog shows, with a deliberately low-cost aesthetic. Expensive banners celebrate the winners' prize money: 1p!

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

But then the month kept progressing. I got more great reviews from more publications. The audience size kept growing. I glued stars and quotes to my own posters. I kept waking up to messages from Ignacio or Flick announcing good news. They also organised a press event for the Welsh acts.

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The month started incredibly well. In the first few days, I got a 4.5* review from A Young(ish) Perspective, and jokes from the show were chosen for the Best Jokes of the Fringe lists in the Telegraph and Times. The first few shows had audience numbers between 10 and 20 - and I was more than happy.

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We went with Hoots' Apex Hotel on Grassmarket as our venue. I love Hoots - they strike an incredible deal by Edinburgh standards, and the hotel is air conditioned and accessible. I love the guys who run it, and I love the shows they pick for their venues. New kids on the block, but already great.

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Shoutout to my fellow debutante Josh Elton - brilliant Welsh-Jewish comedian (we all have a thing; I'm bisexual). Josh and I worked on our shows in tandem, putting on previews across the country. Josh was also produced by Ignacio's company Comedy Sheep, and the brilliant Flick Morris was our PR.

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Since this would be my first hour-long show, it would technically count as my debut. I'd be eligible for Best Newcomer awards! Hahaha! Funny to think, but really, I just wanted to announce to the industry that I exist, and that my work's worthy of critical attention. Nice reviews is all I need.

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The next 7 months were spent preparing the show, and raising the necessary money. I wanted to pay the thousands and thousands of pounds needed for the run from money I made from gigging - no debts, no dipping into savings. I just about managed it. I gigged like crazy, including private bookings.

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Over Christmas I met for drinks with the brilliant Welsh/Spanish comedian Ignacio Lopez - and he revealed his plan to start producing solo shows. I told him my ideas, he mocked the parts that deserved it (I'd expect nothing less), but crucially, he was on board. He wanted to produce my show.

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

But also - the world is changing, and my career with it. It feels like a scary time for the queer community, and my instinct is to become louder. Prepare myself for what's coming. This might seem self-aggrandising, but I can explain. I'm a standup comedian. I'm inherently self-aggrandising.

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

So the time had come to scale up. I wanted to make the move to a paid venue for a couple of reasons. Firstly, accessibility. I've started talking more about disability in my work (dyspraxia and ADHD), so it felt wrong to be in inaccessible venues. The ability to actually book a ticket helps too.

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I've been doing the Fringe for years - keeping my shows to 45 minutes, and doing them in Free Fringe rooms, to keep my costs low and my chances of being noticed by the industry to a minimum. Nonetheless, people come to my shows year after year. Last year was a roaring success.

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I'm back from the Edinburgh Fringe! And I've neglected BluSky, so let me tell you about my adventures. THREAD!

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

We all do things at a different pace. It must have taken me 6 years between my first piano lesson and passing Grade 1. Anyway, after 14 and a half years of performing standup comedy, I have been given the Pegasus Award for Best Newcomer.

A photo of an award, with the plaque reading: "Pegasus Comedy, Best Newcomer 2025"

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Doctor Who! The 90s! Two of my favourite things! I'd be so excited for this book even if I wasn't one of the writers for it. And Philip Purser-Hallard's book will be great too.

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A Young(ish) Perspective @youngishpers.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

REVIEW: 4.5 stars to Steffan Alun: Stand Up @Hoots @Apex Edinburgh Festival Fringe Steffan Alun Spirited and heartfelt wp.me/pdXz8Y-6ns #review #edfringe #whatson #comedy

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REVIEW: Steffan Alun: Stand Up

Spirited and heartfelt

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Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

2025 Comedy Shows 31/52 - Steffan Alun: Stand Up Steffan's debut hour! It is nice to see a nice man do nice jokes and also accuse the asexual community of being permanently high.

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Steffan Alun @steffanalun.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I'm told the Edinburgh Comedy Awards are sending a scout to my show tonight. If you're at the Fringe, come along and laugh! And cheer! And say things like "if only we lived in a world where this show earned the award it so clearly deserves"!

Poster for Steffan Alun: Stand Up
9:30pm at Hoots on Grassmarket
Tickets from steffanalun.com

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Josie @josieishbel.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I also went to see @steffanalun.bsky.social’s debut hour!! one of my favourite stand ups with so many laugh out loud moments, highly recommend. What a great day

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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

reminder to any scottish Overinvested listeners that you can see Steffan at the Edinburgh Fringe all this month!!!!

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