| Alfie Joey | |
|---|---|
 Joey in 2011 | |
| Born | Peterlee, County Durham [1] |
| Alma mater | Middlesex University |
Alfie Joey is a writer, comic, actor, impressionist, singer, presenter, and artist/cartoonist. He hosted the flagship breakfast show on BBC Radio Newcastle from 2009, until his last show on 28 October 2022. [2]
Joey is best known for hosting the flagship breakfast show on BBC Radio Newcastle from 2009, until his last show on 28 October 2022. [2]
On television, Alfie played Vic Reeves’ doctor in the popular sitcom 'Hebburn'.
Joey appeared in all seven series of 'Ideal', a BBC sitcom which also starred Johnny Vegas.
Alfie is also one half of the comedy impressionist double act The Mimic Men with Cal Halbert. Their Britain's Got Talent appearance has had over 2.5 million views on YouTube.
Joey returned to Edinburgh in 2011 with his new one man comedy musical, 'Monopolise' which did a short tour of North East theatres and the Liverpool comedy festival. [3] In 2015, at the North east comedy festival, Jesterval, he began performing in a double act, The Mimic Men, alongside Britain's Got Talent impressionist Cal Halbert. [4]
Alfie hosted the flagship breakfast show on BBC Radio Newcastle from 2009, until his last show on 28 October 2022. His co-hosts included Charlie Charlton and Anna Foster. [2]
He appeared in the first two series on Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music on BBC Radio 4 with Robin Ince, first broadcast in 2004 and 2005.
He is a lifelong Sunderland A.F.C. fan. [5] In 2018, Joey appeared in episode 6 of Sunderland 'Til I Die, a Netflix web-series about Sunderland AFC.
He was nominated Best Compère at the 2006 Chortle Awards. [6]
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