Stephanie Tolev

Steph Tolev, born Stephanie Tolev on March 7, 1985, in Toronto, is a Canadian comedian and actress. Along with comedian Allison Hogg, she 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 2020 Juno Awards.

Born to ethnically Bulgarian immigrant parents, Tolev grew up in Toronto's East York district and attended East York Collegiate Institute. She participated in competitive highland dance from ages three to eighteen and was inspired to perform comedy after playing Nick Bottom in a high school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. She enrolled in the Comedy Writing and Performance program at Humber College, where she met future collaborator Allison Hogg, and performed stand-up for the first time at a Scarborough bar at age 18.

In 2016, Tolev moved to Los Angeles and released her first stand-up album Hot N' Hungry, and she became a paid regular at The Comedy Store in 2021. In 2022, she opened for Bill Burr during his comedy tour and was featured in his Netflix special Bill Burr Presents: Friends Who Kill. She launched her podcast "Steph Infection" in 2023, in which she interviews fellow comedians about bodily ailments. In 2025, she filmed Filth Queen at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston for Netflix and was a guest star in Season 2 of the Netflix series Tires. Her comedic style has been described by the media as "raunchy".