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Josie Long (born April 17, 1982) is a British comedian. In 2006 she won the If.comeddies Best Newcomer award at the Edinburgh Fringe Image File history File links Josie_Long. ...
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A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ...
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A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ...
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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. Orpington is a place in the London Borough of Bromley. ...
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Newstead Wood School for Girls and Daniel Moore Newstead Wood School for Girls is a selective girls secondary school in Avebury Road, Orpington, England. ...
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. ...
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Career At 21, after graduating from Oxford, she returned to live stand-up, supporting Stewart Lee on his Spring 2005 tour. The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ...
Stewart Lee (born April 5, 1968 in Solihull) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director probably best 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. ...
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. BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station, specialising in popular music aimed at a young audience (children, teenagers and young adults). ...
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. Robin Ince (born 1969) is an English stand-up comedian, actor and writer. ...
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Stewart Lee (born April 5, 1968 in Solihull) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director probably best 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. ...
Danielle Ward is a British stand-up comedian and writer. ...
Isobel Isy Suttie is a comic and actor. ...
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. This page is about the City of Manchester in England. ...
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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. Soho is an area of central Londons West End, in the borough of the City of Westminster. ...
Crystal Palace is an area in south London, England within the postcode London SE19, named after the Crystal Palace, relocated to Upper Norwood in 1854. ...
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She also appeared regularly in Robin Ince's podcast Show & Tell, and co-hosts the Tuesday Afternoon Resonance FM show I, DJ with Danielle Ward and Isy Suttie. Robin Ince (born 1969) is an English stand-up comedian, actor and writer. ...
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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". Skins is a British teen drama from Company Pictures which premiered on E4 on 25 January 2007. ...
Long has a love of applique and the V&A. Live Boggle contests sometimes form a part of her gigs. Appliqué is a technique in which pieces of fabric are sewn onto a foundation piece of fabric to create designs. ...
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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].
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. ...
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External links - Long's MySpace page
- The MySpace page for Long's club and magazine
- Homepage for the Show & Tell podcast
- Reviews of Kindness and Exuberance in Edinburgh
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