Merseyside Mirth Makers - Stevie Faye

Steve Faye was born in 1927, coming from Huyton and a lifelong Liverpool supporter he was a friend of Liverpool FC legend Billy Liddell. In fact when he was young having a football kick-about  on a local field someone kicked the ball towards the road and the man who kicked it back was Billy Liddell no less. Steve became an actor, best known for 'Boys From The Blackstuff' in 1982, 'Play For Today' in 1970 and a comedian who, like many others from Liverpool, found fame on Johnny Hamp's Granada TV show 'The Comedians'.

Showbiz was in his blood and his career took this former amateur boxer through all kinds of jobs, from club kitchen porter to candle worker stints in Llandudno. But he became a household name thanks to that one show in particular. He stated "I have producer Johnny Hamp to thank when he started 'The Comedians. His skill was in putting together a real mix of established comics from the circuit and some unknowns making their telly debuts."
There were plenty of Liverpudlians in each series; many of them have passed away, but others are as popular now as they were then.
He said that 'The Comedians' was a mould-breaking TV show, the likes of which we will never see again. "It was taped, allowing for swear words to be edited out. But I didn't swear and never would on stage. I am clean through and through, like Doddy."

The show was an instant hit from the first episode, running in various formats from 1972 to 1993. Stevie was seen alongside the late great Jackie Hamilton and George Roper. Tom O'Connor and Stan Boardman were other stars in the making. Between 1979 and 1980, Vince Earl (later Brookside's Ron Dixon) and Mick Miller showed off their distinctive routines and from 1984-85 the show saw the emergence of the first and only woman comedienne in the history of the show- Pauline Daniels - who had made her debut in the 1982-83 series with Eddie Collinton, Les Dennis and Tom Pepper.

If there was one 'blip' in his career it was possibly an LP he made for Stag Music which didn't sell very well to say the least.
Stevie went on to live in Whiston but still made regular appearances in a former boxers' club in Nottingham. "I owe a lot of my material to the boxing clubs when I trained at the Golden Gloves and during my the RAF war years,
Stevie said that being a clean performer is a badge of honour. "I have never told a dirty joke in my life, whether going to entertain in prisons across the UK or when I was entertaining the troops."

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