Josh Howie
producer and host, GB News show Free Speech Nation

Josh Howie is the producer and host of GB News show, Free Speech Nation. He’s also the writer and star of two series of the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 sitcom Josh Howie’s Losing It, nominated for a BBC Radio Award, and is a lead on the sitcom Hapless, presently streaming with Amazon Prime in the UK, and Peacock in the US.

For more than two decades, Josh has also been a much in-demand stand-up comic performing regularly at all the major comedy clubs across the UK. He’s taken his hyper-aware humour to India, Ireland, Israel, UAE, France, Holland, China, Austria, Hungary, Thailand, Switzerland, Finland, Estonia, America and Canada, when invited to perform at the prestigious Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, filming the internationally distributed Just For Laughs All Access TV show.

In addition, Josh has written and performed four solo shows for the Edinburgh Festival, with consequent sell-out runs at London’s Soho Theatre, and a UK solo tour, Josh Howie’s Messed Up. Josh appeared on As Yet Untitled with Eddie Izzard, recorded for two series of the Comedy Central show Comedy Store, and featured on The World Stands Up and Comedy Blue for the same channel. For five years, he was the writer/presenter of The Movie Geek on Sky Movies and is often praised for his writing talent having contributed features to The Times, The Guardian, Daily Mail, and a column about parenting five children for The Jewish Chronicle. Josh recently completed his first feature-film script, presently in pre-production with the director of The Greatest Showman.

Follow Josh on Twitter @joshxhowie

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GB News Free Speech Nation with Josh Howie