Stand up Howie started performing on the London comedy circuit in 2002. He presented a
Edinburgh Festival Fringe show,
Chosen, in
2008. It received critical acclaim.
Broadcasting Howie was the presenter in 2008 for the
Sky Movies show,
The Movie Geek. He appeared in series three of the
BBC Radio 4 stand up show
4 Stands Up in April 2009. He wrote and starred in two series of the
BBC Radio 4 sitcom ''Josh Howie's Losing It'', broadcast in 2016 and 2018.
GB News Howie was the weekday host on the
GB News comedy paper review show, ending in June 2025, which was called
Headliners. He has also been the host of the show
Free Speech Nation for GB News since December 2024. 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. 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. In an
X post on 9th August 2025, Howie announced he had been dropped by his acting agent as a result of the incident.
Writing 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. ==References==