Josie Isabel Long (born 17 April 1982) is an English comedian. She started performing as a stand-up at the age of 14 and won the BBC New Comedy Awards at 17. In 2006, Long won the

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Best Newcomer award at the

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for her show ''Kindness and Exuberance''. She has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show three times. In 2012, Long and director Doug King produced two short comedy films in Glasgow called ''Let's Go Swimming'' and ''Romance and Adventure'', which were nominated for a BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award.

Early life and education

Long was born in

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and spent her early life in

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, where she attended Newstead Wood School for Girls. She began performing stand-up comedy at 14, winning the

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at the age of 17. Long attended Michael Knighton's comedy course in Beckenham, London. At 18 she gave up stand-up whilst attending

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, ran experimental comedy clubs, and graduated with a degree in English.

Career

After graduating Long returned to live stand-up, supporting

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on his spring 2005 tour. In March that year, Long was named Best Newcomer at the 2005 Chortle Awards. She contributed sketches and one-liners to

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's 2004/5 comedy show, ''The Milk Run'' with

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. One edition of the show was entirely given over to a script she co-wrote with her friend Dan Harkin, entitled ''The Adventures Of

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''. 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

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and

, as well as

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and

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. She appeared in the show ''An Audience With Dan Nightingale & Josie Long'' with Mancunian comic Dan Nightingale, at the Café Royal, at the 2005

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. In 2006 she won the If.comedies Best Newcomer award at the Fringe for her show ''Kindness and Exuberance''. As of 2014 she has performed seven solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and performed five subsequent UK tours in the spring of 2007, 2008 and 2009, autumn 2010 and spring 2012. She has appeared at the

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(2007–10), the

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(2008), the

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(2008, 2010) and the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival (2008). Her show, ''Trying is Good'' was nominated for the Barry Award in Melbourne 2008. In 2009 she toured her show ''All of the Planet's Wonders'', playing 14 dates during February and March. Her radio series based on the show, ''Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders'' was broadcast on

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in early 2009. Long has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show three times, with her 2010 show, ''Be Honourable!'', 2011's ''The Future Is Another Place'' and 2012's ''Romance & Adventure''. Recordings of the former two were released on a cassette album entitled ''Lost Cats.'' Along with fellow comics Hils Barker, Steve Hall and

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, she founded the ''All-Singing, All-Dancing Competitive News Bonanza'', a live topical panel show that ran at the Red Lion pub in

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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

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, London (later at the Black Sheep pub), and ''The OK Club'' at the Boogaloo pub in

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. Between 2011 and 2017 she ran and hosted "The Lost Treasures of the Black Heart" comedy club at the Black Heart pub in

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, which was recorded and made available as a podcast. Josie Long and craftivists

Long has written for the

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teen comedy-drama series '' Skins''. She has also appeared in an online

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and episodes five and 10 of the second series of the show. Since 2013 Long has been the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 short documentary series and podcast ''Short Cuts'', which was won multiple awards including the Gold for Best Radio Podcast at the British Podcast Awards in both 2017 and 2018. She has also been involved in

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, on a weekly mini-feature called ''Josie Long's Confuse the Teacher Feature'', where a word is read out by Long for young people listening to the show to include in their homework, which was formed after her suggestion of the idea during an interview on the show with

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. She also appeared regularly in

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''Show & Tell'', now called ''Robin and Josie's Utter Shambles'', co-hosted the

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show ''I, DJ'' with Danielle Ward and

, and guested on ''

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'' podcast. She has also DJ-ed at the London

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club night Scared To Dance. She appeared on the '' Jon Richardson Show'' on 27 July 2008 and again on 15 February 2009. On 28 September 2008, she performed at the HungaMunga Festival at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club. On 9 October 2008 she appeared on ''

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'' in the second programme of the 22nd series. On 19 January 2009 she appeared on the radio panel game ''

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''. She appeared in Australian improvised-comedy show ''

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'' twice, the first of which aired on 6 May 2009. On 5 July 2009 she appeared on Sunday Night Show on

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with

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. On 14 and 28 July 2009 she appeared on

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show ''

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''. On 21 and 23 August 2009 Long performed at the

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. On 15 November 2009, Long was the guest on the

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radio show on

and the subsequent podcast of the show, before making her second appearance with

, this time on Iain Lee's ''2 Hour Long Late Night Radio Show'', on the same station eight days later. She occasionally wrote for

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's underground magazine '' Dodgem Logic''. On 15 January 2010 she was a contestant on

's panel show ''

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''. On 18 March 2010 she appeared on the

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comedy quiz TV programme show '' The Bubble''. She wrote and performed three short plays as part of

's ''

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'' series, including one about

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s. Since 2010, Long has been involved with the anti-tax-avoidance activist group

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, and in 2011 co-founded The Arts Emergency Service, a charity helping young people in education. She has on occasion promoted these groups through her stand-up and has also performed stand-up at protests and occupations, including the

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. Long presented a Saturday morning radio show with Andrew Collins on

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and runs a monthly comedy club at The Black Heart in Camden Town, recordings of which are used for her new podcast ''The Lost Treasures of the Black Heart''. Josie Long performing at Lost Treasures of the Black Heart in London on the 11th of September 2013 2

Josie Long performing at Lost Treasures of the Black Heart in London on the 11th of September 2013 2

In 2012, Long toured the UK with

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, Tom Parry and the activism group

to protest against public-sector government funding cuts. Long and director Doug King also produced two short comedy films in Glasgow called ''Let's Go Swimming'' and ''Romance and Adventure'', which were nominated for a BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award. The pair toured independent cinemas across the UK during Autumn 2013. Long has been a ''

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'' fan since she was a child and she is interviewed for the special features of several classic series DVD releases, including ''

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'' and '' Dragonfire''. In 2018, Long and

Jonny Donahoe Jonny Donahoe (born 15 June 1983) is a British comedian, writer and performer. He is one half of the comedy band Jonny and the Baptists, with Paddy Gervers. Education Donahoe was educated at Abingdon School from 1996 to 2001. Career Donaho ...

performed a comedy show together based around parenting and expecting the birth of their daughter. They subsequently turned the show into a podcast, ''Josie & Jonny Are Having a Baby (With You!)''. Drawing on this, Long's show at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe, ''Tender'', discussed the subject of childbirth and optimism about the future. A review in Chortle noted that " hewhole act is well refined with funny voice breaks, emotional act-outs, exaggerations and unexpected callbacks. .... So much is covered in this hour, without it becoming wordy, overlong or a chore. And certainly without losing the funny, which it has in abundance." Also in 2019 Long and Liam Williams wrote and starred in ''Perimeter'', a dystopian play about a city divided into rich and poor areas by a giant fence. The play was broadcast as part of Radio 4's Dangerous Visions series. The same year, Long also presented a new podcast for

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, ''Speaking with Shadows''; the podcast won in the 'Contribution to Heritage' category at the UK Heritage Awards. In 2020, Long took her show ''Tender'' on tour around the UK. During the week beginning 14 December 2020, Long appeared as one of the week's contestants on ''

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''. In 2022 she appeared in Champions Week House of Games.

Personal life

On 28 May 2018, Long had a daughter with her partner, comedian

Live credits

* 2019 ''Tender'' (stand-up show at the Edinburgh Fringe, National Tour) * 2014 ''Cara Josephine'' (stand-up show at the Edinburgh Fringe, National Tour) * 2012 ''Romance and Adventure'' (stand-up show at the Edinburgh Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2013, New Zealand International Comedy Festival 2013 & UK tour) * 2011 ''The Future is Another Place'' (stand-up show at the Edinburgh fringe, UK tour) * 2011 ''MaxFunCon'' (stand-up show at a conference in Lake Arrowhead, California, USA) * 2010 ''Be Honourable!'' (stand-up show at the Edinburgh Fringe, New Zealand and Melbourne Comedy Festivals, UK tour) * 2009 ''Darwin's Birthday Spectacular'' with Robin Ince * 2009 ''All of the Planet's Wonders (shown in detail)'' (Edinburgh Fringe, UK and Australian Tour) * 2008 ''Trying is Good'' (Edinburgh Fringe, UK, NZ, Montreal and Australian Tour. UCB Los Angeles) * 2006 ''Kindness and Exuberance'' (Edinburgh Fringe, UK and Australian Tour. UCB New York)

Radio credits

* 2023 ''The Ultimate Choice : Episode 3'' on BBC Radio 4 * 2022 ''Josie Long: What Next?'' on BBC Radio 4 * 2020 How do you cope? with Elis and John, BBC Sounds * 2020 ''Josie Long’s Gambit'' on BBC Radio 4 * 2013 ''Come the Revolution'' on BBC Radio Wales * 2013 - ongoing ''Short Cuts'' on BBC Radio 4 * 2011 Andrew Collins and Josie Long on BBC 6 Music * 2010 '' So Wrong It's Right'' hosted by Charlie Brooker on BBC Radio 4 * 2010 ''The Adult Hour'' on TalkSport hosted by Ian Collins * 2009 ''All the Planet's Wonders'' on BBC Radio 4

Television credits

*2022 ''Richard Osman's House of Games'', series five, week 20, House of Champions *2020 ''Richard Osman's House of Games'', series four, week 10 *2016 ''Dara O'Briain's Go 8-Bit'' , season one, episode five, Dave *2015 ''Celebrity Fifteen to One'', Winner, Channel 4 * 2014 ''8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown'', Channel 4 * 2014 ''Fifteen to One'', Channel 4 * 2013 ''8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown'', Channel 4 * 2013 ''Was It Something I Said?'', Channel 4 * 2013 ''The Matt Lucas Awards'', BBC1 * 2010 ''The Bubble'', BBC2 * 2009 ''Skins'', Channel 4, as Josie, the group's careers adviser in series two and then English teacher in series three * 2009 ''Maeve Higgins' Fancy Vittles'', RTÉ2 (Ireland), as

Maeve Higgins Maeve Anna Higgins (born 24 March 1981) is a comedian from Cobh, County Cork, Ireland and is based in New York City. She was a principal actor and writer of the RTÉ television production ''Naked Camera'', as well as for her own show ''Maeve H ...

's English friend * 2009 ''Thank God You’re Here'', various characters, season four, Seven Network

Collections

The

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holds material by Long as part of the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive. The collection includes set lists, promotional material, stage props for performances and zines.

References

External links

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