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]
Howie was the presenter in 2008 for the Sky Movies show, The Movie Geek.[6]
He appeared in series three of the BBC Radio 4 stand up show 4 Stands Up in April 2009.[7]
He wrote and starred in two series of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Josh Howie's Losing It, broadcast in 2016 and 2018.[8]
Howie was the weekday host on the GB News comedy paper review show, ending in June 2025, which was called Headliners.[9]
He has also been the host of the show Free Speech Nation for GB News since December 2024.[10]
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.[11] 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.[12] In an X post on 9th August 2025, Howie 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.[13][14]
