Josh Howie

Joshua Howie (born 22 February 1976)^[1] is an English right-wing political commentator. He currently features as a broadcaster for GB News. Earlier in his career, Howie was a stand-up comedian and screenwriter.

Although ethnically Jewish, Howie grew up in London in the Buddhist household of his mother Lynne Franks and his father Paul Howie. He was a weekly boarder at Mill Hill School.^{[citation needed]}

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. He presented his first Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Chosen, in 2008; it received considerable critical acclaim.^[2][3] He appeared in series three of the BBC Radio 4 stand up show 4 Stands Up in April 2009.

He was the presenter for the Sky Movies show, "The Movie Geek".

He has been a regular guest and occasional host on the GB News paper review show, "Headliners".^[4]

Howie began contributing to online men's lifestyle magazine Blokely in 2011. He also writes for The Jewish Chronicle.^[5][6]

On 22 January 2025, during a GB News segment, Howie made a remark conflating LGBT equality with paedophilia — alluding to the LGBTQ grooming conspiracy theory widely regarded as homophobia.^[7] Following this incident, Good Law Project, a non-profit company committed to enforcing government accountability, condemned Howie’s language and began a campaign insisting broadcasting regulatory body OFCOM take action against GB News.^[8]

• Josh Howie on Twitter
• Josh Howie at IMDb
• CV at management Archived 26 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine
• Chortle biography