Joe Thomas

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Joseph Owen Thomas (born on 28 October 1983) is an English actor, writer and comedian.

After entering the performing arts via the Cambridge Footlights, he performed with fellow students at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a production of All’s Well That Ends Well, directed by author Duncan Barrett.

He is in a comedy double act along with fellow Footlights alumnus Jonny Sweet, and they have performed their show, The Jonny and Joe Show, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

His big break in television was his role as Simon Cooper in The Inbetweeners (2008–2010) which was so popular that it spawned two feature films, The Inbetweeners Movie (2011), and The Inbetweeners 2 (2014).

After The Inbetweeners concluded, he joined the cast of the Channel 4 comedy-drama series Fresh Meat in 2011, portraying the role of Kingsley Owen until 2016.

In 2011, along with Simon Bird and Jonny Sweet, he wrote Chickens, a satirical sketch about three conscientious objectors during World War I. Broadcast as part of Channel 4’s Comedy Showcase in 2011, it was then commissioned for a six-episode series by Sky One, which was broadcast in 2013.

In 2012 he played a Maths teacher in the second series of Threesome.

In 2017 he was reunited with his The Inbetweeners colleague James Buckley, when they both joined the cast of BBC Two sitcom White Gold.

In 2018 he starred in the comedy film The Festival, and began work on Proposal, a comedy radio series on BBC Radio 2 in which he plays Jamie, a man preparing to propose to his girlfriend Lucy.

[Source: Wikipedia, 06/03/2021.]