External links
- Josh Howie on Twitter
- Josh Howie at IMDb
- CV at management Archived 26 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- Chortle biography
Josh Howie | |
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| Born | Joshua Howie February 22, 1976 London, England |
| Occupation(s) | Broadcaster, comedian, columnist, screenwriter |
Joshua Howie (born 22 February 1976) [1] is an English political commentator. He is a broadcaster for GB News. Howie is also a stand-up comedian, screenwriter, and actor.
Although Jewish, Howie grew up in London in the Buddhist household of his mother Lynne Franks and his father Paul Howie. [2] [3] He was a weekly boarder at Mill Hill School. [4]
Howie started performing on the London comedy circuit in 2002. He presented a Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Chosen, in 2008. It received critical acclaim. [5] [6]
Howie was the presenter in 2008 for the Sky Movies show, The Movie Geek. [7]
He appeared in series three of the BBC Radio 4 stand up show 4 Stands Up in April 2009. [8]
He wrote and starred in two series of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Josh Howie's Losing It, broadcast in 2016 and 2018. [9]
Howie was the weekday host on the GB News comedy paper review show, ending in June 2025, which was called Headliners. [10]
He has also been the host of the show Free Speech Nation for GB News since December 2024. [11]
On 22 January 2025, during a GB News comedy show, Howie made a joke that a US church's call for the full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons included paedophiles. [12] Following this incident, OFCOM received over 1,200 complaints while Good Law Project said they had gathered over 60,000 signatures to a petition against "dangerous disinformation about LGBTQ+ people" and undertook to submit further complaints it had collated. [13] In an X post on 9th August 2025, Josh announced he had been dropped by his acting agent as a result of the incident.
Howie began contributing to online men's lifestyle magazine Blokely in 2011, and has written multiple articles for The Guardian . He has written for The Jewish Chronicle . [14] [15]
