Stephen Frost

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Stephen Frost (born December 28, 1955) is an English comedian perhaps most famous 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 regularly in The Young Ones, and later had their own TV series Lazarus and Dingwall on BBC2.

The duo were perhaps most famous for appearing in a long-running series of commercials for Carling Black Label lager through the 1980s and 90s, with the catchphrase "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label". The most famous of these adverts spoofed the now-legendary "launderette" commercial for Levi's in which Nick Kamen stripped down to his underwear; in their pastiche, Arden and Frost played fellow launderette customers who were stripped down entirely, with just strategically-placed books maintaining their modesty.

Without Arden, Frost has guested many times 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 has also guested on Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

He enjoyed a famous Blackadder cameo (in an episode of Blackadder Goes Forth) as the overly-cheerful head of a firing squad sent by a court martial to shoot dead the lead character, played by Rowan Atkinson. He has worked consistently as a jobbing actor in all realms of British television.

He also had once had a cameo on the British comedy series Mr. Bean, also starring Rowan Atkinson, in the episode titled "Mr. Bean Rides Again" in one of the skits where Mr. Bean is riding a train.

Frost is now resident compere at the East Dulwich Comedy Club and a regular on the London comedy circuit. He is also a veteran of the Edinburgh Fringe.

In 2003 he appeared in Guy Masterson's sell-out production of 12 Angry Men alongside Bill Bailey.

Frost was born in Cornwall and is the son of the late abstract artist Sir Terry Frost and brother of painter Anthony Frost.