Comedy
Josie Long Tickets
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Shows in United Kingdom
- 19/09/2025Friday 19:00BelfastThe Limelight 2Josie Long: Now Is the Time of Monsters
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- 08/11/2025Saturday 19:30LondonSoho Theatre WalthamstowJosie Long - Now is the Time of Monsters
- 21/11/2025Friday 19:30CoventryThe Tin At The Coal VaultsJosie Long: Now Is the Time of MonstersOn partner site
- 26/11/2025Wednesday 20:00SheffieldLeadmillJosie LongOn partner site
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- 05/12/2025Friday 19:00GlasgowOran MorJosie Long: Now Is the Time of MonstersOn partner site
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- 12/12/2025Friday 20:00CumbriaKendal Brewery Arts CentreJosie Long: Now Is the Time of MonstersOn partner site
- 13/12/2025Saturday 19:30EdinburghQueens Hall EdinburghLive At Christmas: Sam Campbell, Tim Key, Amy Gledhill
International Shows
- 18/09/2025Thursday 20:30Dublin, D2, IEThe Sugar ClubJosie Long
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About
2007: Best breakthrough act in the Chortle Awards
2006: Best newcomer in the if.comeddie awards
2005: Best newcomer in the Chortle Awards
2001-2003: Took time off performing to complete her English degree at Oxford university
1999: Winner of the BBC New Comedy Award - but as she was only 17 she was too young for the champagne that came as part of the prize - and runner-up in So You Think You're Funny
Listening to Josie Long is like sitting next to the nutter on the bus, but safe in the knowledge she's not a dangerous one.
She babbles away passionately and breathlessly about all the exciting things she's found out, carrying you along on a wave of enthusiasm and charm as you struggle to keep up with her meandering, but relentless train of thought.
But unlike many other stream-of-consciousness comics, Long doesn't take flight on some intangible surrealism - but bases it on genuine observations. Not that these are your everyday shared experiences, mind; she's not afraid to address, at length, a venue in one of East London's yet-to-be-gentrified districts about the merits of 18th Century romantic equestrian portraitist George Stubbs, for instance
Dumbing down isn't in her repertoire, and if the audience is patient enough to give her odd obsessions an airing, they are rewarded with some of the most distinctive comedy emerging today.
The downside of such an original approach is that not everything's guaranteed to work, and sometimes it's more her oddball energy that carries her than the gushing lines she actually says - but Long's aware of this and makes playful, knowing mention of her unorthodox style to soften the impact.
She might be an acquired taste for some - but it's worth the effort; Long's an act we're all bound to hear a lot more about.
2006: Best newcomer in the if.comeddie awards
2005: Best newcomer in the Chortle Awards
2001-2003: Took time off performing to complete her English degree at Oxford university
1999: Winner of the BBC New Comedy Award - but as she was only 17 she was too young for the champagne that came as part of the prize - and runner-up in So You Think You're Funny
Listening to Josie Long is like sitting next to the nutter on the bus, but safe in the knowledge she's not a dangerous one.
She babbles away passionately and breathlessly about all the exciting things she's found out, carrying you along on a wave of enthusiasm and charm as you struggle to keep up with her meandering, but relentless train of thought.
But unlike many other stream-of-consciousness comics, Long doesn't take flight on some intangible surrealism - but bases it on genuine observations. Not that these are your everyday shared experiences, mind; she's not afraid to address, at length, a venue in one of East London's yet-to-be-gentrified districts about the merits of 18th Century romantic equestrian portraitist George Stubbs, for instance
Dumbing down isn't in her repertoire, and if the audience is patient enough to give her odd obsessions an airing, they are rewarded with some of the most distinctive comedy emerging today.
The downside of such an original approach is that not everything's guaranteed to work, and sometimes it's more her oddball energy that carries her than the gushing lines she actually says - but Long's aware of this and makes playful, knowing mention of her unorthodox style to soften the impact.
She might be an acquired taste for some - but it's worth the effort; Long's an act we're all bound to hear a lot more about.