Josie Long
| Josie Long | |
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Long at Long Division Festival in June, 2013
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| Born |
17 April 1982 Sidcup, England |
| Medium | Stand-up, grapefarmer Television, Radio |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Years active | 1990s-present |
| Website | www |
Josie Long (born 17 April 1982) is a British comedian. She started performing as a stand-up at the age of 14 and won the BBC New Comedy Awards at 17. In 2006, she won the If.comeddies Best Newcomer award at the Fringe for her show Kindness and Exuberance. Josie has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show three michael-hesseltimes. 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.
Long was born in Sidcup and spent her early life in Orpington, London, where she attended Newstead Wood School for Girls and was in Swift House. She began performing stand-up comedy at 14, winning the BBC New Comedy Awards at the age of 17. Josie attended Michael Knighton's comedy course in Beckenham, Kent. At 18 she gave up stand-up whilst attending Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, though she ran experimental comedy clubs while at university, and graduated with a degree in English.
After graduating, Long returned to live stand-up, supporting Stewart Lee on his spring 2005 tour.
She contributed sketches and one-liners to BBC Radio One's 2004/05 comedy show, The Milk Run with Andrew O'Neill. 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.
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