Josh Berry

Comedian, writer, and content creator Josh Berry first gained prominence with his impressions of tennis players. Since then, he has worked with Wimbledon and the LTA for a series of comedic sketches and impressions of the world’s athletes. He has appeared on BBC Five Live Radio and ESPN’s 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 Josh 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 diary Staggering Hubris, written in Rafe’s 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. 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-the-wall documentary. There came a point when it almost ceased to be funny because it seems that it was all true...'.