Filth Queen
Netflix · 2025 · 56 min
Gravelly growls, heavy physical comedy, and vulgar dating stories from Boston.
Steph Tolev does not ease her way onto a stage. Wearing a custom jumpsuit with her self-appointed title emblazoned across her back, she immediately brings her trademark high-decibel growls and relentless physical movement to the crowd. This is an hour built on the sheer comedy of being gross, where Tolev revels in the bodily indignities of dating, sex, and simply existing in a human body.
Filmed at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston, the June 2025 Netflix debut marks Tolev’s first solo hour for the streamer, produced by her longtime supporter Bill Burr. It arrived during a major career surge for the Canadian comedian, who had spent the year guest-starring in Shane Gillis’s sitcom Tires and hosting the AVN Awards. On stage, her performance acts as a loud rejection of polite female behavior, with stories ranging from an interactive fishery date with a shorter man to a tryst with a 99-year-old who can neither see nor hear her.
Tolev uses her voice as an instrument of comic friction, matching her gravelly tone with a frantic, prancing physicality that carries the entire set. Rather than looking for sympathy, she turns physical insecurities into punchlines, celebrating the freedom of hooking up with a partner who has completely failed senses.
The set list
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Wearing a romper while dealing with irritable bowel syndrome.
Details emergency bathroom difficulties before pivoting to an unfiltered description of her hairy nipples and having 'big areola energy'.
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Visiting Ripley's Aquarium on a first date with a smaller-than-average man.
Mocks him for weighing out to $600 on the exhibit's tuna-worth scale, only to step on it herself and be priced at $2,000.
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Hooking up with a 65-year-old man from Hinge.
Celebrates the total body freedom of being naked with the lights on and not sucking in her gut because he can barely see or hear.
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Visiting a farmer's house to find his sex swing still unassembled in a box.
Compares assembling it to doing an episode of Home Improvement as Al Borland, and notes that hanging in the swing made her look like a glazed honey ham in a deli window.
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Crowdwork asking women about farting in front of their partners.
Incredulously reacts to audience members who hide bodily functions from long-term spouses, advocating that women shouldn't live in shame of normal bodily functions.
How it plays
- Tone
- Raunchy, candid, unapologetically vulgar, self-deprecating, and joyful.
- On stage
- Fearlessly filthy, raw, uninhibited, conspiratorial, and wildly physical, sporting a dark mullet and jumpsuit with '80s punk-rock star energy.
- Pace
- High-energy, relentless, 'all gas and no brakes', featuring agile stage physicality, prancing, squats, and a shape-shifting delivery voice.
- About
- unfiltered sex and dating stories, IBS and bathroom humor, bodily functions and farting, body image and self-deprecation, dating app mishaps
What the critics said
Widely praised by critics for her uninhibited, full-throttle physicality, fearless raunchiness, and ability to make shocking self-debasement delightfully funny and empowering.
In the room: Rapt, raucous rock-club atmosphere with intense crowd participation and packed balconies.
Backstory
Produced by Bill Burr of All Things Comedy; reflects Tolev's transition from years of single dating app disasters to her relationship with boyfriend Jefferson McDonald, while pushing back against gendered double standards regarding vulgar and filthy bodily humor.
Details
- Released
- Taped
- Paradise Rock Club, Boston
- Runtime
- 56 min
- Where
- Netflix
- Director
- Jen Zaborowski
- Honors
- Vulture's Best Comedy Specials of 2025
- Topics
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