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Josie Long
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Josie Long was the winner of the BBC New Comedy Award in 1999 at the tender age of 17. In that year she was ... a runner up in the So You Think You're Funny? competition. She won best newcomer in the Chortle Awards 2001-2003 after which she took time off performing to complete her English degree at Oxford university. Since her return to stand up she has toured in support of Stewart Lee and this year won Best Newcomer in the if.comeddie awards (the replacement of the Perrier award) for her hour long show 'Kindness and Exuberance'. She also runs her own monthly comedy clubs, The Sunday Night Adventure Club, at the ABC Café in Crystal Palace and The OK Club at the Boogaloo pub in Highgate.
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Josie Long, on the other hand, is right here in the present moment. She is erudite and achingly real, vulnerable and bolshy all at the same time. Tonight she had "Marvellous" written on her stomach in marker above an ocean scene. "I love drawing on myself," she said. She ... loves astronomy and philosophy and language and… olives. Hers is a subtle, non-obvious sort of comedy, especially coming after the more traditional approaches of Dan Hoy's rapid-fire gags and Rob Alderson's audience humiliation.
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Josie Long started performing stand-up when she was just 17 and founded the ‘All Singing, All Dancing Competitive News Bonanza’ at the Red Lion pub in London’s Soho. She has contributed sketches to BBC Radio One’s comedy show ‘The Milk Run’ and written for the Channel Four series ‘Skins’. She will ... appear in the Comedy Arena.
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On the table between Josie Long and your humble scribe lies a mountain of crumpled A4 paper littered with scribbles, arrows and doodles. It looks like ones of those flowcharts you'd make the night before a big exam, just to kid yourself that you had everything under control. This lump of rainforest, though, is no revision guide. It's Josie's 2007 Edinburgh show.
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The first night features Josie Long, Ben Moor, Martin White, Darren Hayman, Dan Atkinson, Simon Munnery, Helen Zaltzman, Robin Ince and more. It's at The Albany (W1W 5QU) on 28 November, 7.45pm (show 8.15pm). Tickets are £7 and £5.
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After graduating from university, Josie returned to live stand-up, supporting Stewart Lee on his Spring 2005 tour. That year she ... began publishing a free bi-monthly fanzine, Drawing Moustaches In Magazines Monthly Magazine, with contributions from Robin Ince, Kevin Eldon and Stewart Lee.
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