Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't

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Cambridge Footlights ( Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, Emma Thompson, Penny Dwyer and Paul Shearer) Josie Long presents four entertaining and educational comedic essays, aided by Maeve Higgins and special guests Long's writing is characterized by her trademark humour, wit, and vulnerability. She is unafraid to share her own struggles and insecurities, and her writing is infused with a deep sense of empathy and compassion for others. I didn’t plan it, but it’s so much in the air at the moment. I think I absorbed it and did it subconsciously. I don’t think I’d have written that 10 years ago, so it must be influenced by #MeToo. I’m glad it’s in there.

It worked in my favour a bit to have people think I was unusual and not just neurodivergent,” she says, “and it was nice for me to feel that, too.” Ha. Well, as you probably know, Sharon Osbourne has written three. My friend Anne gave me the first one as a gift; I thought it was quite cool in a kitsch way. I wanted Jane to be reading a celebrity memoir and tried loads of options – Lulu and Gary Barlow came close – but kept returning to Sharon’s. Then I read her latest memoir and found out she quite liked Trump when she was on The Celebrity Apprentice, but it was too late. I wonder out loud whether her diagnosis has taken away some of her old pride in her own uniqueness, but she disagrees. “Now, I finally understand what kind of car I’m driving,” she says. “Before, a lot of my sadness came from the fact that I thought I was driving a different kind of car that was broken. I don’t feel like the diagnosis takes away from the beauty of the good parts, and the fast, unusual connections my brain makes”. Josie Isabel Long (born 17 April 1982) is an English comedian. [1] She started performing as a stand-up at the age of 14 and won the BBC New Comedy Awards at 17. Featuring the comedic voices of Mark Watson, Josie Long and Daliso Chaponda, and created by award-winning producers Steven Rajam (Tim Key and Gogol’s Overcoat) and Benjamin Partridge (Beef and Dairy Network), this is an arts documentary series like no other.

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Radio 4 regular Long was the first woman to be nominated three times for Edinburgh Comedy Award (in 2010, 2011 and 2012) and has previously performed nine UK tour. I’ve written pilots in the past. Unfortunately, when I was trying to pitch them, I was told: “Sorry, the channel’s already got a female-led sitcom.” It was an era when people thought women don’t sell DVDs or sell out venues. But I’d still love to make one, and I have a really good idea. I loved London, but I also felt like London wanted me dead,” Josie Long tells me, with a seasoned comedian’s ear for a pithy line. I feel instantly defensive. I’ve grown up in London and am endlessly protective of my wonderful, remorseless home city. Still, Long is persuasive. From her new home in Glasgow, the much-loved standup insists there’s much more to life than sweating on the Central line and doing hand-to-hand combat with the city’s cost-of-living crisis. Bromwich, Kathryn (13 October 2019). "On my radar: Josie Long's cultural highlights". The Guardian . Retrieved 4 September 2020.

Skins, Channel 4, as Josie, the group's careers adviser in series two and then English teacher in series three

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The rampant pest infestation that overwhelms their home challenges her smug delight in her Glaswegian socialist, artisanal indie wonderland. And it forces her into some regrettable bug genocide, the true nature of her desperate cull kept from encroaching upon her daughters’ innocence. It also forced her into an upfront confrontation with an exterminator demanding to know her views on Brexit.

She appeared in the show An Audience With Dan Nightingale & Josie Long with Mancunian comic Dan Nightingale, at the Café Royal, at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe. In 2006 she won the If.comedies Best Newcomer award at the Fringe for her show Kindness and Exuberance. In her 2007/2008 tour Trying is Good her act often involved drawing a sea scene on her arms and stomach. Long has a love of appliqué and the V&A Museum, and live Boggle contests sometimes form a part of her performances.

Still, although Long’s glimpsed the darker side of humanity, that positivity shines through. I can practically feel her beaming down the phone as she tells me that “writing these short stories has been so gratifying and beautiful”. Already, her ADHD brain is craving the dopamine high she’ll get when her book hits the shelves. One of the threads running throughout Re-Enchantment is why she fled London, tired of being on the losing side politically, and how she’s energised by Glasgow’s radical tradition, inspiring her to speak out on the creeping erosion of civil liberties. Be Honourable! (stand-up show at the Edinburgh Fringe, New Zealand and Melbourne Comedy Festivals, UK tour)

With the giddy enthusiasm of one who can’t wait to share all her news, Long has experienced some significant changes in the last couple of years, turning 40, having her second child, moving to Glasgow and getting diagnosed with ADHD. And in return for the advice, what will their show (and the podcast that may follow) offer audiences? Having read “lots of bad books on the subject”, in Donahoe’s words, the pair aim to puncture some of what Long calls the “unhelpful, unscientific or deep-rooted in sexist bullshit” myths surrounding pregnancy. “To do a show,” she continues, “about becoming parents from – what I now realise is – our unconventional perspective. We want to coparent and we’re aware of how unusual that is.” Their job helps with this aspiration. “As comedians, we’re quite time-rich,” Donahoe says. “We can both take time off. Standup is a very flexible job.” a b "Andrew Collins and Josie Long". BBC Radio 6 Music. 17 December 2011 . Retrieved 25 October 2012. Logan, Brian (15 April 2018). "Comic delivery: Josie Long and Jonny Donahoe on having a baby". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 9 July 2019. Everyone could analyse the way we’ve aged too. Maybe in another 10 years, so it’s the same gap as Friends. Wait until we’ve spent all our money on Botox and really need the fee.As our hosts shine the spotlight on strange, funny and sometimes disturbing novels by Flann O’Brien, Jean Rhys and Kurt Vonnegut, listeners are invited to inhabit their eccentric worlds - gaining a deeper understanding of their workings and the unique literary minds that created them.