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Josie Long: 'I'd love to see someone defend free speech for left-wing activists'
The comedian talks about moving to Glasgow, being diagnosed with ADHD, and convincing people not to vote Tory.
Michael Horgan, The Guardian, 24th July 2022Edinburgh festival 2022: 50 shows to see
Phil Wang makes a heroic return, Ian McKellen stars in a balletic Hamlet and Sophie Duker is gleefully carefree. Here are our picks of the festival's comedy, theatre and dance.
Brian Logan, Mark Fisher and Lyndsey Winship, The Guardian, 6th July 2022What does 'alternative comedy' mean in 2022?
A scene that started as a counter to straight stand-up at the end of the 1970s is still hard to peg - but it's much more than just weird stuff that doesn't work on telly.
Rachael Healy, The Guardian, 29th June 2022BBC New Comedy Award wants to find new faces to make us laugh now
Satire is everywhere and a fresh generation of comics are ripping up the rules.
Stephen Armstrong, The Sunday Times, 22nd May 2022Radio 4 orders Jen Brister, Josie Long and Kiri Pritchard-McLean shows
Radio 4 has commissioned stand-up specials from Jen Brister and Josie Long, a medicine-based panel show fronted by Kiri Pritchard-McLean and a train-based interview series from Alexei Sayle.
British Comedy Guide, 3rd May 2022Brighton Comedy Garden announces 2022 line-up
Brighton's Comedy Garden is to return this summer with headliners Simon Amstell, Stewart Lee, Adam Buxton, Dylan Moran, Sara Pascoe and Phil Wang.
Chortle, 13th April 2022Monkey Barrel announces its 2022 Edinburgh Fringe programme
This year will be the venue's biggest festival yet, with more than 70 acts across eight rooms, including former free venues The Hive and Carnivore coming into the fold.
Chortle, 18th March 2022Best of 2021: Comedy
Everybody in the comedy industry started out with so much hope that, finally, things could get back to normal in 2021 - and for a while they did, and there were some gems as live comedy returned to clubs and theatres.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 29th December 2021Corbynist comedy: the curious idyll of Jupiter Rising
In the course of her set at Jupiter Rising, a festival of "cutting-edge music and performance" held outside Edinburgh, the comedian Josie Long ran through some things she hates. For instance: Keir Starmer ("not a fan"), Boris Johnson ("blood on his hands"), landlords ("parasitic... I hope you die"), lockdown novelists ("scabs"), and anyone who kvetches about the "woke brigade", who "don't exist" beyond the heads of people in Kent. ("Why not picket the Boys' Brigade? At least they're an actual brigade.")...
Cal Revely-Calder, The Telegraph, 30th August 2021Edinburgh Fringe 2021: a crazy comedy experiment
Thanks to Covid, stand-ups at this year's slimmed-down festival have been unable to refine their routines. The results are wild.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 10th August 2021