• If.com Eddy's Newcomer Award - Winner 2006
• chortle.co.uk Newcomer Award - Winner 2005

my face hurt from laughing Ross Noble
the funniest 22 year old woman in the country Stewart Lee

Josie?s youthful enthusiasm and distinct world view, mixed with intelligent insight, have gained her respect and made her a favourite amongst established comics. Selected to appear in the reputable Edinburgh Festival ?Big Value Show? in 2004 she created a buzz with her obsessive and ridiculous stories leaving audiences smitten with her innocent wonder and loveable madness. From this she went on to support Stewart Lee. She is currently performing 20 minute sets around the country. In 2006 and her debut Edinburgh Show ?Kindness and Exuberance? was met with critical acclaim, was sold out from the first week, won her the If.com Eddy?s (formerly Perrier) Newcomer Award), and sold out a run at the Soho Theatre. In 2006 Josie will be doing a national tour with her show.

Brief History

2006 Josie Longs debut solo show Edinburgh 2006 ?Kindness and Exuberance? Book Club Tour Out to Lunch (Radio 2)

2005 Support Act, Stewart Lee?s National Tour ?Stand-Up Comedian? Chortle Award Best Newcomer An Audience with Josie Long and Dan Nightingale Edinburgh 2005 Funny Women Tour

2004 ?Big Value Comedy? , Cafe Royal The Milk Run, BBC Radio

2003 The Last Chancers, C4, Angel Eye

2002 Brain Candy, BBC 3. Baby Cow Productions

1999 Winner BBC New Comedy Awards
Runner up ?So You Think You?re Funny??
Semi Finalist Daily Telegraph Open Mic Competition

One of Britain's bright new hopes of the comedy scene Sunday Times

A terrible cartoonist but enchanting stand-up The Herald

young and bubbly......there was an immediate sense this was a comedian of a higher order Fest 2005

like sitting next to the nutter on the bus, but safe in the knowledge she?s not a dangerous one. Chortle

?Josie Longs show is unpolished, rambling and lovely ? just the way she hoped it would be? Observer

?it is rare to emerge from a comedy show feeling as though you have seen something genuinely life affirming rather than slightly sordid. Kindness and Exhuberance is not just the exception to the rule ? it is breezy and attractively presented plea for optimism and an entreaty to enjoy the more unusual but simple pleasures in life?quirky?it would be hard to leave this show without a smile Scotland on Sunday

?a box of badges and sunshine soundtrack greet the audience, before the last dregs of cynicism are brushed away by the lady herself. The cheerful Long has endearing energy The List

?she's undeniably special?? Skinny Fest *****

...Long can find the joy in the tiniest and most pointless of things. It's a rare comedy talent and one worth cherishing. Her kindness and exhuberance are not to be missed. Metro (Scotland) *****

...there's a lovable romantic sensibility here, reminiscent of Daniel Kitson's, but without the accompanying acidity? heartfelt and eccentric? Guardian