Toby Foster
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Toby Foster (born 1969) is a comedian, actor and radio presenter, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.
He went to the Barnburgh Junior School.
Foster is an acclaimed stand up comedian, who promotes and comperes Sheffield's Last Laugh comedy club, and is a member of the M.E.N. @ Work team at Manchester's Comedy Store. He is also the host of BBC Radio Sheffield's popular weekday mid-morning show from 8.30-11am, for which he was nominated for the Entertainment Sony Radio Academy Award in 2004. He started on the afternoon show from 2-5pm, taking over from Tony Capstick on April 2 2002. He then worked with Antonia Brickell on a joint breakfast show in September 2004. He has been off the comedy circuit for nearly eighteen months to concentrate on the opening of his latest Last Laugh Comedy Club, at The Roundhouse in Sheffield. He also runs The Last Laugh at The Lescar, Yorkshire's longest running comedy club. His company also runs comedy clubs at both Sheffield Universities. He is perhaps better known to a wider audience as Les in Peter Kay's sitcom Phoenix Nights, which he starred in from 2000-2002. He has also appeared in That Peter Kay Thing and Max and Paddy's Road To Nowhere.
