Alfie Joey

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.

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

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 Cal Halbert.[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. 29 July 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
  2. "The UK Comedy Guide". Chortle. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
  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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