Stephen Grant is an award winning British comedian and radio presenter best-known for hosting the Krater Comedy Club at Komedia in Brighton, England, which won the Chortle Award for Best Comedy Club in the South from 2002 to 2009. Grant himself won Best Compère in 2008.

As a stand-up comedy performer, Stephen Grant reached the finals of the Daily Telegraph Open Mic Awards, and he went on to co-star in Foot, Grant, and Mackenzie, a three-person show alongside the comedians Paul Foot and Veronica Mackenzie. Grant first came to TV prominence in 1999 when he was followed alongside comedians Jason Byrne and Adam Bloom as a main character in the Channel 4 documentary Edinburgh or Bust. The programme showed Grant, still working as a software consultant at the time, taking part in the Daily Telegraph Open Mic Awards, and in his first show at the Edinburgh Festival.

Grant entered comedy professionally as the main comedy writer for a variety of shows on BBC Radio 1 between 1999 and 2003, writing for Zoe Ball on her breakfast show before becoming the full-time writer for Scott Mills. In that time he also wrote for Sara Cox, Simon Mayo, The Dreem Teem, Clive Warren, Emma B, and John Peel, who narrated the Radio 1 Christmas Pantomime in 2002, which Grant also wrote.