Tony Cowards is a British stand-up comedian

Stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy is a comedic art form. Usually, a comedian performs in front of a live audience, speaking directly to them. Their performances are sometimes filmed for later release via DVD, the internet, and television...

 and writer, currently living in the Cotswolds.

Background

Born in Ipswich

Ipswich

Ipswich is a large town and a non-metropolitan district. It is the county town of Suffolk, England. Ipswich is located on the estuary of the River Orwell...

 in 1973, Cowards lived in Suffolk, until he moved to Ilford

Ilford

Ilford is a large cosmopolitan town in East London, England and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Redbridge. It is located northeast of Charing Cross and is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan. It forms a significant commercial and retail...

, Essex in 1985. After attending Ilford County High School

Ilford County High School

Ilford County High School is a selective boys' secondary grammar school and a specialist science college in the Barkingside area of the London Borough of Redbridge.ICHS is a four-form entry school, each form comprising up to 30 pupils...

, Tony went on to read Chemistry at the University of Salford

University of Salford

The University of Salford is a campus university based in Salford, Greater Manchester, England with approximately 20,000 registered students. The main campus is about west of Manchester city centre, on the A6, opposite the former home of the physicist, James Prescott Joule and the Working Class...

, Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

 and graduated in 1994. After a career in sound and lighting he became involved in the Comedians Graveyard, a local London gig hosting the likes of Jimmy Carr

Jimmy Carr

James Anthony Patrick "Jimmy" Carr is an English-Irish comedian and humourist. He is known for his deadpan delivery and dark humour. He is also a writer, actor and presenter of radio and television....

 and Tim Vine

Tim Vine

Timothy "Tim" Mark Vine is an English actor, writer and comedian. He has released a number of DVDs of his stand-up comedy, as well as starring in the successful series Not Going Out with Lee Mack on the BBC...

, he finally decided to try his hand at stand up and did his first comedy performance at the Manchester Dancehouse

Dancehouse

The building which now houses the Dancehouse Theatre in Manchester was originally designed by Pendleton and Dickson for property developer Emannuel Nove, as two large meeting halls over a parade of shops. Before the halls were completed inside, they were converted into two cinemas with fashionable...

 Theatre at the age of 30. He has since has gone on to perform in comedy clubs, theatres and music festivals throughout the UK.

Career

Cowards is a regular on the comedy stages across the UK and regularly performs to a variety of service personnel, at sports clubs and awards dinners. Cowards has performed 3 Edinburgh Festival Shows, Festival of Football (2007), Festival of Football 2 (2008) and Everyman (2009).

Cowards is known for his one liner and puns and is a prolific Twitter user. He writes for a variety of radio including Newsjack

Newsjack

Newsjack is a satirical sketch show hosted by Justin Edwards. Until September 2011, it was presented by Miles Jupp, and first broadcast on BBC Radio 7 on 4 June 2009. The series is notable for having an "Open door" policy on writing, meaning that unsolicited writers without contract to the BBC can...

, the BBC Comedy Unit Watson's Wind Up and Jack FM

Jack FM

JACK FM is the alternative name and on-air brand of 60 radio stations in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia. Jack stations play a mix of 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s hits with some current hot adult contemporary singles. Jack's slogan "playing what we want" can also be...

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External links

• http://www.tonycowards.co.uk Official Website
• Comedy CV