Josie Long

Don’t know your improv from your stand up?

Edinburgh bound comedy shows being road tested in London

Our pick of this week’s comedy gigs, including Tim Key, Josie Long, Harry Hill and Nick Sun.

Simon Munnery takes on the ladies, and a perfectly pitched night of sweet lament to libraries from Emmy the Great and Jack Underwood.

Josie Long / image © Idil Sukan If you’re aware of Josie Long’s reputation as the kooky DIY zine maker, playing Boggle with her audience, you might be taken aback by the opening to her Edinburgh-nominated show Be Honourable. Belligerent and shouty, it takes a …

Get a pre-Festival comedy taster (we mean Camden Fringe, of course! Although apparently something’s happening up north sometime in the near future too…) at The Miller pub near London Bridge tonight, with the multi-award winning and frankly too-damn-talented-for-her-age Josie Long, who’s stopped trying to get …

Robin Ince‘s Book Club used to be a staple of the comedy circuit – Ince would read from whatever awful volume he’d picked up that month, and other comedians had the freedom to do things they might not get away with in a full set. …

We love Josie Long and her tireless inventiveness. Lost Treasures of the Black Heart is a comedy club she runs where comedians spin gags about forgotten heroes and dug-up facts (the ‘lost treasures’ bit) at the Black Heart in Camden (the… you get the idea). …

Hard on the heels of the comedy fundraiser for Reprieve comes another one, this time for homeless charity Cardboard Citizens. Stewart Lee and Robin Ince are on both bills but this time they’re joined by the always original Josie Long and Bridget Christie (yes, we …

We’ve already declared our love for London’s thriving small press scene, this Saturday, 29 May is the day for the more unruly world of fanzines to shake, rattle and roll at the London Zine Symposium this at the Rag Factory on Henage Street, off Brick …