1. Josie Isabel Long was born on 17 April 1982 and is an English comedian.
26 Facts About Josie Long
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Josie Long started performing as a stand-up at the age of 14 and won the BBC New Comedy Awards at 17.
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Josie Long has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show three times.
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Josie Long was born in Sidcup and spent her early life in Orpington, London, where she attended Newstead Wood School for Girls.
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Josie Long began performing stand-up comedy at 14, winning the BBC New Comedy Awards at the age of 17.
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In March that year, Josie Long was named Best Newcomer at the 2005 Chortle Awards.
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Josie Long has appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the New Zealand Comedy Festival and the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival.
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Josie Long's show, Trying is Good was nominated for the Barry Award in Melbourne 2008.
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Josie Long has written for the Channel 4 teen comedy-drama series Skins.
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Josie Long has appeared in an online webisode and episodes five and 10 of the second series of the show.
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Since 2013 Josie Long has been the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 short documentary series and podcast Short Cuts, which was won multiple awards including the Gold for Best Radio Podcast at the British Podcast Awards in both 2017 and 2018.
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Josie Long has been involved in BBC Switch, on a weekly mini-feature called Josie Long's Confuse the Teacher Feature, where a word is read out by Long for young people listening to the show to include in their homework, which was formed after her suggestion of the idea during an interview on the show with Annie Mac.
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Josie Long has DJ-ed at the London indiepop club night Scared To Dance.
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Josie Long appeared on the Jon Richardson Show on 27 July 2008 and again on 15 February 2009.
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Josie Long appeared in Australian improvised-comedy show Thank God You're Here twice, the first of which aired on 6 May 2009.
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On 21 and 23 August 2009 Josie Long performed at the Green Man Festival.
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On 15 November 2009, Josie Long was the guest on the Dave Gorman radio show on Absolute Radio and the subsequent podcast of the show, before making her second appearance with Iain Lee, this time on Iain Lee's 2 Hour Josie Long Late Night Radio Show, on the same station eight days later.
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Josie Long occasionally wrote for Alan Moore's underground magazine Dodgem Logic.
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Josie Long wrote and performed three short plays as part of BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play series, including one about apostrophes.
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Since 2010, Josie Long has been involved with the anti-tax-avoidance activist group UK Uncut, and in 2011 co-founded The Arts Emergency Service, a charity helping young people in education.
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Josie Long has on occasion promoted these groups through her stand-up and has performed stand-up at protests and occupations, including the 2011 Hetherington House Occupation.
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Josie Long presented a Saturday morning radio show with Andrew Collins on BBC 6 Music and runs a monthly comedy club at The Black Heart in Camden Town, recordings of which are used for her new podcast The Lost Treasures of the Black Heart.
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In 2012, Josie Long toured the UK with Grace Petrie, Tom Parry and the activism group UK Uncut to protest against public-sector government funding cuts.
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Josie Long has been a Doctor Who fan since she was a child and she is interviewed for the special features of several classic series DVD releases, including Nightmare of Eden and Dragonfire.
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In 2020, Josie Long took her show Tender on tour around the UK.
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On 28 May 2018, Josie Long had a daughter with her partner, comedian Jonny Donahoe.