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Josh Berry
ABOUT
Josh Berry is a British comedian, writer and content creator who first gained prominence for his impressions of tennis players. Since then, Josh has worked with Wimbledon and the LTA for a series of comedic sketches and impressions of the world’s athletes. He has been invited onto BBC Five Live Radio and ESPN television coverage of Wimbledon and has recorded a variety of impressions clips with Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Nick Kyrgios.
After Boris Johnson became prime minister in 2019, he developed the character of Rafe Hubris, an arrogant, Eton-educated Special Adviser (SpAd) at 10 Downing Street. Writing in the Evening Standard, political commentator Anne McElvoy called his send-up of ‘spad’ culture “pitch-perfect”. Josh’s spoof 2020 diary Staggering Hubris, written in Rafe Hubris’ voice, purports to tell the real story of the chaos behind the scenes as the British government attempted to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The book, with its account of parties and rule-breaking at Downing Street, began to look uncannily prescient as the Johnson government was engulfed by the Westminster lockdown parties controversy. As critic Peter Magee wrote in The Bookbag: ‘What begins as a light-hearted spoof on life in Downing Street turns into something resembling a fly-on-thewall documentary. There came a point when it almost ceased to be funny because it seems that it was all true...’.
In 2018 Josh took his show Voice Thief to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and in 2019, he returned to the Fringe to perform Josh Berry: Who Does He Think He Is?, a show based on impressions of celebrities including James Acaster and Louis Theroux. Josh is currently touring his latest show, Sexual Politics, with UK dates running through to April 2024.
ExpandAfter Boris Johnson became prime minister in 2019, he developed the character of Rafe Hubris, an arrogant, Eton-educated Special Adviser (SpAd) at 10 Downing Street. Writing in the Evening Standard, political commentator Anne McElvoy called his send-up of ‘spad’ culture “pitch-perfect”. Josh’s spoof 2020 diary Staggering Hubris, written in Rafe Hubris’ voice, purports to tell the real story of the chaos behind the scenes as the British government attempted to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The book, with its account of parties and rule-breaking at Downing Street, began to look uncannily prescient as the Johnson government was engulfed by the Westminster lockdown parties controversy. As critic Peter Magee wrote in The Bookbag: ‘What begins as a light-hearted spoof on life in Downing Street turns into something resembling a fly-on-thewall documentary. There came a point when it almost ceased to be funny because it seems that it was all true...’.
In 2018 Josh took his show Voice Thief to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and in 2019, he returned to the Fringe to perform Josh Berry: Who Does He Think He Is?, a show based on impressions of celebrities including James Acaster and Louis Theroux. Josh is currently touring his latest show, Sexual Politics, with UK dates running through to April 2024.