Josh2funny Biography: Real Name, Education, Career, Award & Net worth

Chibuike Josh Alfred, professionally and popularly known as Josh2Funny, is a Nigerian comedian, actor and musician.

Josh2funny Biography

Josh2Funny was born in Anambra State on the 18^th of December, 1990. He moved to Lagos with his parents when he was eight years old. He shot into the limelight when his skit #DontLeaveMe went viral and quite popular for his comic style of putting on female wears and singing songs upside down.

Full name: Josh Alfred
Stage name: Josh2funny
Date of birth: 18th December 1990
Place of birth: Anambra State, Nigeria
Age: 32 years
Nationality: Nigeria
Education: Computer Science at Federal Science and Technical College, Yaba
Occupation: Comedian, social media influencer
Net worth: $100,000

Josh2funny Education

He started his early nursery education at Anambra State and continued until the age of 7 when he came down to Lagos.
Growing up at Mushin area of Lagos State, he met with other like minds and at a point, started considering going into comedies. In fact, he started developing comedy sketches long before Instagram launched.

After completing his secondary education, Alfred gained admission to study Computer Science at the Federal Science and Technical College, Yaba. He also attended a school of performing arts, Qban Centre Ikoyi, Lagos.

Josh2funny Entertainment Career

Josh2funny started his career by doing comedy in churches, telling jokes at private functions, and other places. He, however, decided to go professional after winning the Project Raw Talent Hunt Competition in 2011.

He was under the tutelage of popular Nigerian stand-up, Koffi for a 5-year period, where he sharpened his comedy skills. It was in 2015, that he started uploading comedy skits on Instagram.

He continued doing stand-up comedy until 2015 when he decided to turn his jokes into dramas by acting and putting them online. A year later, he had his breakthrough after one of his videos when viral. In the video, he slapped someone and the person rotated from the 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
After recording huge success from some of his comedies, he decided to start making covers for songs. One of his popular works was an Igbo cover of Rihanna’s single, ‘Work’.

In 2018, he once again started another trend, ‘#TheAudition’. This time around, he was shown playing different characters in an audition settingwith judges.
He further dropped another skit, #allMyGuysAreBallerz, which started trending in 2019. It was his first worldwide trend and went viral like the #DontLeaveMeChallenge.

He was a guest star on the sitcom My Flatmates which starred fellow comedians like Basketmouth and Buchi.

Josh2funny’s Albums And Songs

Apart from doing comedies, Josh2funny is also a talented singer. In 2020, he unofficially released an album, ‘A Break From Jokes‘ during the lockdown. He also has another album, ‘Upside Down‘ which has funny covers of people’s songs.

Some of his songs include:

One Kind
Love by Force
Your Heart
Get to You (ft. Frankie Walter)
Fine Wine (ft. Shayzar)
Happiness
Where
I’ve een Blessed

Josh2funny Personal Life

In October 2019, Josh2funny announced his engagement to his girlfriend in an Instagram photo captioned “Dem don collect me ooo”

Josh2funny Awards and Recognitions

Josh2funny’s talent has earned him a number of awards and recognitions. Some of them include:
• Project Raw Talent Hunt Competition (2011)
• Comedian of the Year at the 2018 Starzz Awards (nominated)
• Online Comedy Awards at the 2020 Gage Awards (nominated)

Josh2funny Net Worth

Josh2funny is one of the most popular comedians in Nigeria, with more than 2.7 million followers on Instagram and 2.4 million on Tiktok. He earns from anchoring shows and events. He also posts sponsored adverts on his Instagram handles.

He is the originator of #DontLeaveMe #allmyguysareballers #amconceptng

Josh2funny’s has an estimated net worth of $100,000.