Alfie Joey

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Alfie Joey
BornPeterlee, County Durham[1]
Alma materMiddlesex University

Alfie Joey is a writer, comic, actor, impressionist, singer, presenter, and artist/cartoonist. He currently hosts the flagship breakfast show on BBC Radio Newcastle, having done so since 2009.

He was nominated Best Compère at the 2006 Chortle Awards.[2]

Joey returned to Edinburgh in 2011 with his new one man comedy musical, 'Monopolise' which did a short tour of North East theatres and the Liverpool comedy festival.[3] In 2015, at the North east comedy festival, Jesterval, he began performing in a double act, The Mimic Men, alongside Britain's Got Talent impressionist .[4]

He appeared in the first two series on Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music on BBC Radio 4 with Robin Ince, first broadcast in 2004 and 2005.

He is a lifelong Sunderland A.F.C. fan.[5] In 2018, Joey appeared in episode 6 of Sunderland 'Til I Die, a Netflix web-series about Sunderland AFC.

References[]

  1. ^ "BBC - Tyne - Profile: Alfie Joey". BBC News. 2009-07-29. Retrieved 2011-11-15.
  2. ^ "The UK Comedy Guide". Chortle. Retrieved 2011-11-15.
  3. ^ "Monopolise!". monopolise.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  4. ^ "Cal Halbert (Mimic Men)". Cal Halbert. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  5. ^ "Art: BBC Radio Newcastle presenter Alfie Joey draws on life's experience".

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