Alfie Joey is a writer, comic, actor, impressionist, singer, presenter, and artist/cartoonist. He hosted the flagship breakfast show on

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from 2009, until his last show on 28 October 2022. He was nominated Best Compère at the 2006

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. 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. In 2015, at the North east comedy festival, Jesterval, he began performing in a double act, The Mimic Men, alongside

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impressionist Cal Halbert. He appeared in the first two series on Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music on

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with

Robin Ince Robin Ince (born 20 February 1969) is an English comedian, actor and writer, known for presenting the BBC radio show ''The Infinite Monkey Cage'' with physicist Brian Cox (physicist), Brian Cox, and his stand-up comedy career. Education After ...

, first broadcast in 2004 and 2005. He is a lifelong

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fan. In 2018, Joey appeared in episode 6 of

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, a

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web-series about Sunderland AFC.

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