Josie Long
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| Born | April 17, 1982 |
| Occupation | Stand-up comedian |
Josie Long (born April 17, 1982) is a British comedian. In 2006 she won the If.comeddies Best Newcomer award at the Edinburgh Fringe
Background
Long spent her early life in Orpington, Kent, where she attended Newstead Wood School for Girls in Swift House. She began performing stand-up comedy at an early age, winning the BBC New Comedy Awards at the age of 17. At 18 she gave up stand-up whilst she read English Language and Literature (BA (Hons)) at the University of Oxford.
Career
At 21, after graduating from Oxford, she returned to live stand-up, supporting Stewart Lee on his Spring 2005 tour.
She has contributed sketches and one-liners to BBC Radio One's 2004/05 comedy show, The Milk Run. One edition of the show was entirely given over to a script she co-wrote with her friend Dan Harkin, entitled The Adventures Of Marco Polo.
In 2005 she began publishing a fanzine, Drawing Moustaches In Magazines Monthly Magazine (Bi-Monthly), which is distributed for free, and has featured contributions from Robin Ince, Kevin Eldon and Stewart Lee, as well as Danielle Ward and Isy Suttie.
She appeared in the show An Audience With Dan Nightingale & Josie Long with Mancunian comic Dan Nightingale, at the Café Royal, at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Along with fellow comics Hils Barker, Steve Hall and James Sherwood, she founded the All-Singing, All-Dancing Competitive News Bonanza, a live topical panel show that ran at the Red Lion pub in Soho, London in 2004/05, and at The Arts Theatre Club in Soho in 2006. In 2006 she also launched her own monthly comedy clubs, The Sunday Night Adventure Club, at the ABC Café in Crystal Palace, London and The OK Club at the Boogaloo pub in Highgate, North London.
She also appeared regularly in Robin Ince's podcast Show & Tell, and co-hosted the Resonance FM show I, DJ with Danielle Ward and Isy Suttie.
Long has written for the Channel Four teen comedy/drama series Skins. She has also appeared in an online webisode of the show in which she plays a "careers leader".
Long has a love of applique and the V&A. Live Boggle contests sometimes form a part of her gigs.
After a string of uneasy outbursts, venue management at her recent shows have ordered the public not to heckle. Paying customers are told "It's not that kind of show" on some occasions[citation needed], although comperes advising comedy-club audiences not to heckle is common practice in the UK.
Awards
- Won the BBC New Comedy Awards in 1999 (aged 17).
- Won the If.comeddie Best Newcomer award in 2006.