Tony Cowards

Tony Cowards (born 27 May 1973) is a British stand-up comedian and writer, currently living in the Cotswolds.

Born in Ipswich in 1973, Cowards lived in Suffolk, until he moved to Ilford, Essex in 1985. After attending Ilford County High School, Tony went on to read Chemistry at the University of Salford, Greater Manchester 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 and Tim Vine, he finally decided to try his hand at stand up and did his first comedy performance at the Manchester Dancehouse Theatre at the age of 30. He has since has gone on to perform in comedy clubs, theatres and music festivals throughout the UK and internationally.

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 has written for a variety of radio shows on BBC Radio 2, Radio 4 and Radio 4Extra including Ian D. Montfort Is: Unbelievable, The News Quiz, The Now Show, Newsjack, the BBC Comedy Unit Watson's Wind Up and for commercial stations, Jack FM and TalkSPORT.

He was part of the Silver Sony Award winning writing team for Jack FM (South Coast) in 2013.