Joshua Howie is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 stand-up comedian, raised in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

 by his mother Lynne Franks

Lynne Franks

Lynne Franks founded one of the UK’s best-known public relations consultancies in the early 1970s and is currently an advocate, communications strategist, writer and spokeswoman on women’s issues, sustainability and consumer lifestyles....

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Career

Howie started performing comedy on the London comedy circuit in 2002. For years he performed on the London comedy circuit, gradually working his way through the ranks.

Howie presented his first Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Chosen, in 2008; it received considerable critical acclaim http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre/reviews/josh-howie-chosen-pleasance-courtyard-885080.html http://www.chortle.co.uk/shows/edinburgh_fringe_2008/j/16254/josh_howie:_chosen/review/.

Howie appeared in series three of the BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...

 stand up show 4 Stands Up

4 Stands Up

4 Stands Up is a BBC radio comedy show which has run since December 2007. The programme, which is broadcast on Thursdays at 6:30 pm on BBC Radio 4, contains stand up material from three comedy acts each show, with additional material from the show's host...

 in April 2009.

Howie is the presenter for Sky Movies' show 'The Movie Geek'.

Journalism

Barkley began contributing to online men's lifestyle magazine Blokely

Blokely

Blokely is a men’s lifestyle pure play website based in the UK. An independent platform, it evolved from a blogging site, which focused mainly on grooming and style stories, to a web portal site with a constant run of in-depth features on entertainment, music, grooming, lifestyle and sport...

in 2011.

External links

• http://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/j/674/josh_howie/biography/