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Josh Howie: I am a Dick
16 Aug 2011
Patchy quest with dodgy material
Somewhere along the way, the idea that a sniggering comedian telling a badly-timed rape gag is the vanguard of free speech has become entrenched. It’s not: it’s just lazy. There’s nothing ‘edgy’ about Josh Howie’s material in I am a Dick; he’s not…
I am a Dick - Josh Howie interview
26 Jul 2011
The comedian tells us, in his own words, why he's a dick
I am a dick. This was something I had to finally embrace. When I talked to comic friends of mine, where I’m just being me and letting my guard down, I got sick of them saying, ‘stop with the jokey-jokes, the thing that is funny about you is that you’re…
Comedy picks for the Edinburgh Fringe 2011
20 Jul 2011
David O’Doherty Two shows this year from the beloved man of lo-fi musical comedy with the high-laugh quotient. His usual brilliant sit-down/stand-up fare, David O’Doherty is Looking Up, is augmented by his debut on the one-man comic play scene. Rory…
Josh Howie
24 Aug 2010
A gag-happy clown tests his crowd
Two years ago, Josh Howie made a name for himself at the Fringe with a show about the mad old upbringing he had at the hands of his mum, the PR guru, Lynne Franks. The show, Chosen, featured some highly personal detail that must have made subsequent…
Josh Howie - Festival virgin
21 Aug 2008
Josh Howie remembers the first time and asks the probing questions
At various points over the last few weeks I have been referred to as an 'Edinburgh Virgin'. The more I think about it the more connections I see between my time here and my first sexual experience. Nervousness, sweat, the bad weather, the applause, the…
Josh Howie
7 Aug 2008
Don't expect to see PR guru Lynne Franks at this show, for Howie is the son who had to go along with his mum's wacky Jewish then Buddhist then Native American then Jewish-again ways throughout his childhood, which is extremely funny - now that he can…
