Toby Foster

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Toby Foster (born 1969) is a comedian, actor and radio presenter, claims to be from Barnsley South Yorkshire, England though he was actually born in Rotherham.

He went to the Barnburgh Junior School, followed by Lacewood Primary, Dearneside Comprehensive and Wath Comprehensive in Rotherham.

Foster is an acclaimed stand up comedian, who promotes and comperes Sheffield's Last Laugh comedy club, and was a founder member of the M.E.N. @ Work team at Manchester's Comedy Store. He is also the host of BBC Radio Sheffield's breakfast programme, from 7-9am each weekday. He was host of popular weekday mid-morning show from 8.30-11am until March 2007, 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 two years to concentrate on the opening of his latest Last Laugh Comedy Club, formerly at The Roundhouse in Sheffield, now held at the Memorial Hall. He also runs The Last Laugh at The Lescar, Yorkshire's longest running comedy club. His company also runs comedy clubs at both the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University. He recently ended a 6 year relationship with The Lamproom Theatre in Barnsley, and now hosts a show called "Toby Foster and Friends" at The Penistone Paramount.

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.

He is affectionately referred to as "One-Take" Foster by friend and co-star Peter Kay, because of his belief that he never gets his lines wrong ^[1].

Recently, Foster played a character in the Christmas Special of Extras, credited as "Northern Comic", and featured in the mock Celebrity Big Brother show.

He is currently working on the British comedy film "Snappers" which is being shot on location in Torbay. The film is scheduled for an October release and also stars Joss Stone, Matt Milburn, Tim Healy, Suranne Jones, Matt Slack and John Bowe, amongst others.