Josie Long
Encyclopedia
Josie Long is an English
comedian
.
, South East London
, where she attended Newstead Wood School for Girls
in Swift House. She also attended GIFT Ltd. summer schools. She began performing stand-up comedy at 14, 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 Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
, though she ran experimental comedy clubs while at university. In 2007 she lived in Peckham Rye
and currently lives in Hackney
. She has a wheat allergy
and suffers from polycystic ovarian syndrome, both of which featured in her 2007 Edinburgh show 'Trying Is Good'.
, she 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
.
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
. In 2006 she won the If.comeddies
Best Newcomer award at the Fringe for her show "Kindness and Exuberance". In her 2007/2008 tour Trying is Good her act often involved drawing a sea scene on her arms and stomach. Long has a love of applique
and the V&A Museum, and live Boggle
contests sometimes form a part of her performances.
She has performed three solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and performed three subsequent UK tours in spring 2007, 2008 and 2009. She has appeared at the Melbourne
International Comedy Festival (2007–09), the Adelaide
Fringe Festival (2008), the New Zealand
Comedy Festival (2008) 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 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders was broadcast on BBC Radio 4
in early 2009.
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
(later at the Black Sheep pub) and the OK Club at the Boogaloo pub in Highgate
, North London
.
Long has written for the Channel Four teen comedy-drama series Skins
. She has also appeared in an online webisode
and episodes five and ten of the second series of the show, in which she plays a college careers advisor, and appears again in episode 5 of the third series, reprising that role, this time, however, in another career.
She has also been involved in BBC Switch
, 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 Annie Mac
.
She also appeared regularly in Robin Ince
's podcast
Show & Tell, now called "Robin and Josie's Utter Shambles", co-hosted the Resonance FM
show I, DJ with Danielle Ward and Isy Suttie
, and guested on Answer Me This!
podcast. She appeared on the Jon Richardson Show
on 27 July 2008 and again on 15 February 2009. On 9 October 2008 she appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks
in the second programme of the 22nd series. On 19 January 2009 she appeared on the radio panel game Just a Minute
. She appeared in hit Australia
n improvised-comedy show Thank God You're Here
twice, the first of which aired on 6 May 2009. On 5 July 2009 she appeared on Sunday Night Show
on Absolute Radio with Iain Lee
. On 14 July and 28 July 2009 she appeared on Charlie Brooker
's Channel 4
show You Have Been Watching
.
On 21 August and 23 August 2009 Long performed at the Green Man Festival
. On 15 November 2009, Long was the guest on the Dave Gorman
radio show on Absolute Radio and the subsequent podcast of the show, before making her second appearance with Iain Lee
, this time on Iain Lee's 2 Hour Long Late Night Radio Show, on the same station 8 days later. She occasionally writes for Alan Moore
's underground magazine Dodgem Logic
.
On 15 January 2010 she was a contestant on Channel 4
's "irreverent, and often irrelevant, panel show" 8 Out of 10 Cats
. On 18 March 2010 she appeared on the BBC Two
comedy quiz TV programme show The Bubble
, during which she notably wore a garment displaying Nye Bevan
related witticisms. She wrote and performed three short plays as part of BBC Radio 4
's Afternoon Play
series, including one about apostrophe
s.
Josie Long currently presents a Saturday morning radio show with Andrew Collins
on BBC 6 Music
.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
comedian
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
.
Background
Long spent her early life in OrpingtonOrpington
Orpington is a suburban town and electoral ward in the London Borough of Bromley. It forms the southeastern edge of London's urban sprawl and is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.-History:...
, South East London
South East (London sub region)
The South East is a sub-region of the London Plan corresponding to the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lewisham and Southwark. The sub region was established in 2008. The south east has a population of 1,300,000 and is the location of 500,000 jobs...
, where she attended Newstead Wood School for Girls
Newstead Wood School for Girls
Newstead Wood School for Girls is a selective girls' secondary school in Avebury Road, Orpington, London, England.-Admissions:It is an engineering and languages specialist school. The school has strong links with nearby St Olave's Grammar School. The current head teacher is Elizabeth Allen. The...
in Swift House. She also attended GIFT Ltd. summer schools. She began performing stand-up comedy at 14, winning the BBC New Comedy Awards
BBC New Comedy Awards
The BBC New Comedy Awards first appeared in 1995 and were considered to be one of the top UK comedy newcomer awards until they were axed in 2006. It was announced in the summer of 2006 that they were being replaced by a nationwide talent hunt that places its emphasis on sketch writing and filmed...
at the age of 17. At 18 she gave up stand-up whilst she read English Language and Literature (BA (Hons)
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
) at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
, though she ran experimental comedy clubs while at university. In 2007 she lived in Peckham Rye
Peckham Rye
For the rail station of the same name see Peckham Rye Railway StationPeckham Rye is an open space and road in the London Borough of Southwark in London, England....
and currently lives in Hackney
London Borough of Hackney
The London Borough of Hackney is a London borough of North/North East London, and forms part of inner London. The local authority is Hackney London Borough Council....
. She has a wheat allergy
Wheat allergy
Wheat allergy is a food allergy, but can also be a contact allergy resulting from occupational exposure. Like all allergies wheat allergy involves IgE and mast cell response. Typically the allergy is limited to the seed storage proteins of wheat, some reactions are restricted to wheat proteins,...
and suffers from polycystic ovarian syndrome, both of which featured in her 2007 Edinburgh show 'Trying Is Good'.
Career
After graduating from OxfordUniversity of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
, she returned to live stand-up, supporting Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera...
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
Andrew O'Neill
Andrew O'Neill is a stand-up comedian, musician and writer. He lives in London.-Background:Born in Portsmouth in 1979, O'Neill grew up in the suburban town of Wallington. He did his first comedy performance at the age of ten . He started doing stand-up on 16 January 2002, at the Laughing Horse,...
. 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
Marco Polo
Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant traveler from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and apparently...
.
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
Robin Ince
Robin Ince is an English stand-up comedian, actor and writer. He is best known for presenting the BBC radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage .-Stand-up comedy:...
, Kevin Eldon and Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera...
, as well as Danielle Ward
Danielle Ward
Danielle Ward is a British stand-up comedian and writer.-Career:In 2006 Ward won the Time Outs Critic's Choice award for Best Newcomer and wrote Take A Break Tales - exaggerated adaptations of women's magazine stories - in which she appeared with Neil Edmond, Emma Fryer and Isy Suttie at the...
and Isy Suttie
Isy Suttie
Isobel "Isy" Suttie is an English stand up comedian, actress, writer, and musician. She is best known for playing the role of Dobby in the British sitcom Peep Show.-Career:...
.
She appeared in the show An Audience With Dan Nightingale & Josie Long with Mancunian
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
comic Dan Nightingale, at the Café Royal, at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh Fringe
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world’s largest arts festival. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August...
. In 2006 she won the If.comeddies
If.comeddies
The Edinburgh Comedy Awards, formerly the Perrier Comedy Awards, are presented to the best shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. Established in 1981, they are the most prestigious comedy prize in the United Kingdom. The awards have been directed and produced by Nica Burns since 1984...
Best Newcomer award at the Fringe for her show "Kindness and Exuberance". In her 2007/2008 tour Trying is Good her act often involved drawing a sea scene on her arms and stomach. Long has a love of applique
Applique
In its broadest sense, an appliqué is a smaller ornament or device applied to another surface. In the context of ceramics, for example, an appliqué is a separate piece of clay added to the primary work, generally for the purpose of decoration...
and the V&A Museum, and live Boggle
Boggle
Boggle is a word game designed by Allan Turoff and trademarked by Parker Brothers, a division of Hasbro. The game is played using a plastic grid of lettered dice, in which players attempt to find words in sequences of adjacent letters.-Rules:...
contests sometimes form a part of her performances.
She has performed three solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and performed three subsequent UK tours in spring 2007, 2008 and 2009. She has appeared at the Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
International Comedy Festival (2007–09), the Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
Fringe Festival (2008), the New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
Comedy Festival (2008) and the Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
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 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders was broadcast on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
in early 2009.
Along with fellow comics Hils Barker
Hils Barker
Hils Barker is a British comedian and writer. She was a finalist in newcomer competitions So You Think You're Funny and The Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award, and went on to write and perform in two series of comedy show Radio9 for BBC Radio 4....
, Steve Hall and James Sherwood
James Sherwood (comedian)
James Sherwood is a stand-up comedian, comedy writer, singer, pianist, and composer. He lives in Peckham, south London....
, 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
Soho
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation for sex shops as well as night life and film industry. Since the early 1980s, the area has undergone considerable...
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
Crystal Palace, London
Crystal Palace is a residential area in south London, England named from the former local landmark, The Crystal Palace, which occupied the area from 1854 to 1936. The area is located approximately 8 miles south east of Charing Cross, and offers impressive views over the capital...
(later at the Black Sheep pub) and the OK Club at the Boogaloo pub in Highgate
Highgate
Highgate is an area of North London on the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath.Highgate is one of the most expensive London suburbs in which to live. It has an active conservation body, the Highgate Society, to protect its character....
, North London
North London
North London is the northern part of London, England. It is an imprecise description and the area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes. Common to these definitions is that it includes districts located north of the River Thames and is used in comparison with South...
.
Long has written for the Channel Four teen comedy-drama series Skins
Skins (TV series)
Skins is a BAFTA award-winning British teen drama that follows a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of college. The controversial plot line explores issues such as dysfunctional families, mental illness , adolescent sexuality, substance abuse and death...
. She has also appeared in an online webisode
Webisode
A webisode is a short episode which airs initially as Internet television, either download or stream as opposed to first airing on broadcast or cable television. The format can be used as a preview, a promotion, as part of a collection of shorts, or a commercial.A webisode can be an episode...
and episodes five and ten of the second series of the show, in which she plays a college careers advisor, and appears again in episode 5 of the third series, reprising that role, this time, however, in another career.
She has also been involved in BBC Switch
BBC Switch
BBC Switch was the brand for BBC content aimed at UK teenagers. The brand launched on Saturday 20 October 2007 on BBC Two And ceased broadcasting on Saturday 17 December 2010...
, 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 Annie Mac
Annie Mac
Annie Mac is an Irish DJ and television presenter who hosts an eponymous electronic dance music show on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom which airs at 7:00 pm on Friday evenings as well as a Sunday evening show alongside co-presenter Nick Grimshaw.-Personal life:Annie Mac was born in Dublin,...
.
She also appeared regularly in Robin Ince
Robin Ince
Robin Ince is an English stand-up comedian, actor and writer. He is best known for presenting the BBC radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage .-Stand-up comedy:...
's podcast
Podcast
A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...
Show & Tell, now called "Robin and Josie's Utter Shambles", co-hosted the Resonance FM
Resonance FM
Resonance 104.4 FM is a London based non-profit community radio station run by the London Musicians' Collective .The station is staffed by four permanent staff members, including programme controller Ed Baxter and over 300 volunteer technical and production staff.Until September 2007, ResonanceFM...
show I, DJ with Danielle Ward and Isy Suttie
Isy Suttie
Isobel "Isy" Suttie is an English stand up comedian, actress, writer, and musician. She is best known for playing the role of Dobby in the British sitcom Peep Show.-Career:...
, and guested on Answer Me This!
Answer Me This!
Answer Me This! is a weekly comedy podcast by Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann in which they answer questions submitted by the general public. Recorded in Zaltzman's living-room in Crystal Palace, it began in January 2007 and has since become one of the UK's most successful independently-produced...
podcast. She appeared on the Jon Richardson Show
Jon Richardson (entertainer)
Jon Joel Richardson is a British comedian.Jon co-hosted a Sunday morning radio show on BBC 6 Music with fellow comedian and friend Russell Howard, and continued to present the show himself after Howard left, until 7 March 2010...
on 27 July 2008 and again on 15 February 2009. On 9 October 2008 she appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game television show with a pop music theme, currently without a permanent presenter. It stars Phill Jupitus and Noel Fielding as team captains. The show is produced by Talkback Thames for the BBC, and is usually aired on BBC Two...
in the second programme of the 22nd series. On 19 January 2009 she appeared on the radio panel game Just a Minute
Just a Minute
Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Its first transmission on Radio 4 was on 22 December 1967, three months after the station's launch. The Radio 4 programme won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award in 2003....
. She appeared in hit Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n improvised-comedy show Thank God You're Here
Thank God You're Here
Thank God You're Here is an Australian television improvised comedy program created by Working Dog Productions, which premiered on Network Ten on 5 April 2006, and aired for the first three seasons with Seven for the fourth season...
twice, the first of which aired on 6 May 2009. On 5 July 2009 she appeared on Sunday Night Show
Sunday Night Show
The Sunday Night Show with Iain Lee was a Sony Award Silver winning weekly radio show broadcast on Absolute Radio, between 10pm on Sunday to 1am on Monday, hosted by Iain Lee and produced by Eloise Carr, formerly by Dave "Davis" Lambert...
on Absolute Radio with Iain Lee
Iain Lee
Iain Lee is a British comedian, and a television and radio presenter. His career began when he performed stand-up comedy gigs across venues in London. He subsequently became co-presenter of the comedy current affairs show The 11 O'Clock Show on Channel 4 and RI:SE...
. On 14 July and 28 July 2009 she appeared on Charlie Brooker
Charlie Brooker
Charlton "Charlie" Brooker is a British journalist, comic writer and broadcaster. His style of humour is savage and profane, with surreal elements and a consistent satirical pessimism...
's Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
show You Have Been Watching
You Have Been Watching
You Have Been Watching is a British comedy panel game presented by Charlie Brooker, produced by Zeppotron for Channel 4 and filmed at BBC Television Centre and Riverside Studios in London. It first aired on Tuesday 7 July 2009, for a weekly eight-episode run...
.
On 21 August and 23 August 2009 Long performed at the Green Man Festival
Green Man Festival
The Green Man Festival is an independent music festival held annually in the Brecon Beacons, Wales. It has evolved from a one-day, 300 capacity event in 2003, to a three-day festival with live music including psych, folk, indie, dance and Americana across five stages, as well as DJs playing...
. On 15 November 2009, Long was the guest on the Dave Gorman
Dave Gorman
David James Gorman is an English author, stand-up comedian and presenter. He has performed comedy shows on stage in which he tells stories of extreme adventures and presents the evidence to the audience in order to prove to them that they are true stories...
radio show on Absolute Radio and the subsequent podcast of the show, before making her second appearance with Iain Lee
Iain Lee
Iain Lee is a British comedian, and a television and radio presenter. His career began when he performed stand-up comedy gigs across venues in London. He subsequently became co-presenter of the comedy current affairs show The 11 O'Clock Show on Channel 4 and RI:SE...
, this time on Iain Lee's 2 Hour Long Late Night Radio Show, on the same station 8 days later. She occasionally writes for Alan Moore
Alan Moore
Alan Oswald Moore is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell...
's underground magazine Dodgem Logic
Dodgem Logic
Dodgem Logic is a bimonthly underground magazine edited and published by Alan Moore. The first issue appeared in December 2009, and there have been eight issues published as of Spring 2011. Each issue features comics, stories, and articles by Moore, including the regular feature "Great Hipsters...
.
On 15 January 2010 she was a contestant on Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
's "irreverent, and often irrelevant, panel show" 8 Out of 10 Cats
8 Out of 10 Cats
8 out of 10 Cats is a television comedy panel game made by Zeppotron for Channel 4. It was first broadcast on 3 June 2005. The show is based on statistics and opinion polls, and draws on polls produced by a variety of organizations and new polls commissioned for the programme, carried out by...
. On 18 March 2010 she appeared on the BBC Two
BBC Two
BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
comedy quiz TV programme show The Bubble
The Bubble (UK TV series)
-Further reading:*...
, during which she notably wore a garment displaying Nye Bevan
Aneurin Bevan
Aneurin "Nye" Bevan was a British Labour Party politician who was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1959 until his death in 1960. The son of a coal miner, Bevan was a lifelong champion of social justice and the rights of working people...
related witticisms. She wrote and performed three short plays as part of BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
's Afternoon Play
Afternoon Play
The Afternoon Play is a long-running drama programming strand, broadcast every weekday at 2.15pm on BBC Radio 4. Each play lasts for 45 minutes, and roughly 190 new Afternoon Plays are broadcast each year....
series, including one about apostrophe
Apostrophe
The apostrophe is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritic mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet or certain other alphabets...
s.
Josie Long currently presents a Saturday morning radio show with Andrew Collins
Andrew Collins (broadcaster)
Andrew Collins is the creator and writer of Radio 4 sitcom Mr Blue Sky. His TV writing work includes EastEnders and the sitcoms Grass and Not Going Out .-Personal life:Collins was a member of the Labour Party between the late 1980s and early 1990s, leaving after Labour's...
on BBC 6 Music
BBC 6 Music
BBC 6 Music is one of the BBC's digital radio stations, was launched on 11 March 2002 and originally codenamed Network Y. It was the first national music radio station to be launched by the BBC in 32 years....
.
Live credits
- 2011 MaxFunCon (Stand up show at conference in Lake Arrowhead, California, USA)
- 2010 Be Honourable (Stand Up Show at the Edinburgh Fringe and Melbourne Comedy Festival)
- 2009 Darwin's Birthday Spectacular with Robin Ince
- 2009 All of the Planet's Wonders (Shown in Detail) (UK and Australian Tour)
- 2008 Trying is Good (UK, NZ, Montreal and Australian Tour. UCB Los Angeles)
- 2006 Kindness and Exuberance (UK and Australian Tour. UCB New York)
Radio credits
- 2009 All the Planet's Wonders on BBC Radio 4
- 2010 So Wrong, It's Right hosted by Charlie Brooker on BBC Radio 4
- 2010 The Adult Hour on TalkSport hosted by Ian Collins
- 2011 Andrew Collins and Josie Long on BBC 6 Music
Television credits
- 2009 Skins, Channel 4, as Josie, the group's careers advisor in series 2 and then English teacher in series 3.
- 2009 Maeve Higgins' Fancy VittlesMaeve Higgins' Fancy VittlesMaeve Higgins' Fancy Vittles is a television series written and performed by the comedian Maeve Higgins and her sister, Lilly.The series is set and filmed in Lilly's homely, country kitchen and each episode involves the sisters preparing food dishes or "vittles" for a themed party.Throughout each...
, RTÉ2 (Ireland), as Maeve Higgins'sMaeve HigginsMaeve Higgins is an Irish comedian. She was a principal actor/writer of the RTÉ production Naked Camera, as well for her own show Maeve Higgins' Fancy Vittles....
English friend.