Steph Tolev

Stephanie Tolev (; born March 7, 1985) is a Canadian comedian and actress.

Along with comedian Allison Hogg, Tolev was a member of the sketch comedy duo Ladystache, which won awards for Most Innovative Comedy Troupe and the Just for Laughs Award at Montreal Sketchfest in 2010 and 2014, respectively.

She won the award for Best Female Stand Up at the 2015 Canadian Comedy Awards, and her 2019 comedy album I'm Not Well, was nominated for the Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2020, and in 2016, she was featured as "The nine funniest stand-up acts in Toronto right now" by Toronto Life magazine.

Early life Born in Toronto to ethnically Bulgarian immigrant parents, Tolev grew up in the city's East York district and attended East York Collegiate Institute. She was inspired to perform comedy after playing the role of Nick Bottom in a high school production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Career In 2009, Tolev and Hogg formed the sketch comedy duo Ladystache. The troupe's name makes reference to a female moustache. They won the Just for Laughs Award at Montreal Sketchfest in 2014 and released their comedy album "So Many Wolves" that same year. The duo also performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, North by Northeast, the Toronto and Vancouver Sketchfests, as well as the Just for Laughs festival in Toronto.

While performing with Ladystache, Tolev continued to perform stand-up and won the award for Best Female Stand Up at the 2014 Canadian Comedy Awards.

In 2016, Tolev moved to Los Angeles and released her first stand-up album Hot N' Hungry. For her podcast, Tolev interviews fellow comedians about bodily ailments.

Tolev's comedic style, both in sketch comedy and stand-up, has been described by the media as "raunchy" During an interview in 2022, Tolev described her comedy as "brash, vulgar, self-deprecating, physical, silly and painfully real." In 2025, she filmed Filth Queen at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston, Massachusetts for Netflix. The same year, she was also a guest star in Season 2 of the Netflix series Tires.