
Acting
Apr 16, 1982
Orpington
Josie Long
Acting
Biography
English experimental comedian.
Feature Films (18)

Josie Long demonstrates her love of experimental humour in this award-winning live show that confirms her potential as one of the upcoming stars of UK comedy. "... wonderful... a perfect antidote to cynicism" (Observer) "Excellent timing, delivery and an obvious ability as a performer... you'd have to have a heart of stone not to leave with a broad smile on your face" (The Stage)
Josie Long: Trying Is Good

Behind every great time lord there's a great woman. Whether they're busting Daleks or the Doctor's ego, the women of Doctor Who prove that you don't need testosterone to save the universe.
The Women of Doctor Who

Following a bad break-up and no longer enthused by London life, Josie has arrived in the 'indie theme-park' of Glasgow, itching for a fresh start in a city which she has always admired. Whilst there she attempts to launch herself into her new resolutions - making new friends, hanging out with cool musicians and going swimming however she soon realises that her ambitions are not quite so easy to achieve and Glasgow might not hold the answers she is looking for.
Let’s Go Swimming

Rain on Film tells the story of a cinema-obsessed young woman (Josie Long) who attempts to 'direct' her own real-life romance with Dan (Rupert Hill) - a boy she meets at her local cinema café - as if it were film. What follows is the funny, touching, and somewhat cinematic consequences of her vision. Rain on Film is a bittersweet love story which explores the ways in which cinema can construct and skew our perspective of what love and romance really are.
Rain on Film

Stand up set concerning what it is to be single, 30 and left wing in the middle of the Coalition government's tenure.
Josie Long: Romance & Adventure

The illustrator and author paints scenes from a 70-year-long career, including his work with Roald Dahl. With David Walliams, Joanna Lumley, Peter Capaldi, Ore Oduba and Michael Rosen.
Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life

In Romance and Adventure, Darren is Josie’s best friend. Josie is Darren’s flatmate. Approaching 30, Josie is desperate to travel, to escape, to do something big. Darren is happy having his meals cooked by someone other than his mum. Together they drink Buckfast and wander the streets, wondering why their friends are becoming old and boring, with houses and marriages and kitchens to retile. Together they make fun of squares and make up games, it’s them against the world, or so Josie hopes. How much can you rely on a friend who doesn’t want to grow up?
Romance & Adventure

Eve is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James, and together they form a band.
God Help the Girl

The three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and cult optimist is back with her most personal show to date – about love and being outdoorsy as a bear. Recorded live at the Soho Theatre, 2015.
Josie Long: Cara Josephine

Almost two decades after comedian Robin Ince’s original idea to mash up science with comedy, music and culture in a new variety show, Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless/Curious People and Robin and Brian's Christmas Compendium of Reason are still here brightening the dark days of winter with a joyous celebration of all things curious and creative. This feature length documentary charts the evolution of those pioneering and legendary science variety nights that have attracted legions of fans both on and off the stage and raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity. With loads of exclusive interviews and never before seen behind the scenes footage we look at how one person's 'stupid idea' ended up changing the shape of science communication and entertainment forever, moving science from the classroom to arenas.
Curious People: An Incomplete History of Nine Lessons & Compendium

Kindness & Exuberance is the first solo show performed by Josie Long. It was originally performed during the Edinburgh Fringe 2006, where Long won the best newcomer award for it. It a show about small things Long likes & her love of DIY culture and DIY standup clubs. You can find it as an extra on the "Trying Is Good" DVD.
Kindness & Exuberance

An overly romantic librarian believes she's found the one after just three dates, but her friends are more concerned with political turmoil, which leads to a right wing coup.
Super November
Television & Series (26)

Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
Skins

What the Dickens is a television panel game hosted by Sandi Toksvig. Team captains were Dave Gorman and Tim Brooke-Taylor for the first series and Sue Perkins and Chris Addison for the second and third. It is recorded at Sky Studios in West London.
What the Dickens?

Notoriously foul-mouthed television critic Charlie Brooker invites three of his friends round to sit in oversized chairs, watch television, and they all take the mick out of it. Each discussion ends with one or more questions to the panel, for which points are awarded. In the final quick-fire round, there are buzzers and a suitable (ie disconcertingly jaunty) game show noise. At the end, a winner is determined, and we reckon that's enough to make it a game show.
You Have Been Watching

Ten celebrities must survive entirely on their own on an uninhabited island in the Pacific.
Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls

Each episode involves performers walking through a door into an unknown situation, greeted by the line "Thank God you're here!". They then had to improvise their way through the scene. At the end of each episode a winner was announced.







