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‘Luckily, I wasn’t decapitated’: 17 comedians’ stories from 40 years of Melbourne international comedy festival

Wil Anderson, Lano and Woodley, Aaron Chen, Urzila Carlson and more share memories from 40 years at MICF, including fires, camels and weddings

The Guardian - AU · Apr 3

Doomscrolling, people pleasing and low-fat foods? Life’s too short! Nine writers on what they won’t bother with this year

Rutger Bregman, Josie Long, Michael Rosen, Meera Sodha and others on what they are no longer wasting their time on

The Guardian - UK · Jan 4

Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg and Caliban’s take on The Tempest: the best theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2025

Andrea Riseborough and Sarandon deliver a decade-hopping drama, superstar standups hit the road and Shobana Jeyasingh rewrites Shakespeare

The Guardian - UK · Aug 28, 2025

In brief: Because I Don’t Know What You Mean…; One Midsummer’s Day; Imagine a City – reviews

Josie Long’s first story collection brims with wry wit, Mark Cocker pays philosophical tribute to the swift, and Mark Vanhoenacker offers a pilot’s-eye view of urban life

The Guardian - UK · May 28, 2023

‘I did standup with my baby strapped to me’ – the comics motherhood can’t stop

Some lied. Some hid it. And a few even mined it for jokes. Becoming a mum used to be near-fatal to a comedian’s career. But now, in a Mother’s Day special, we meet the new wave taking on taboos

The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2023

Josie Long review – wild-firing misadventures in the personal and political

ADHD, Tory supremacy and the limited appeal of ‘Sir Keir’ combine in another unrestrained report from the standup’s struggles to hang on to optimism

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2023

The best theatre, dance and comedy tickets to book for 2023

Danny Boyle’s Matrix-inspired spectacular opens in Manchester, Succession star Brian Cox returns to the stage and standups Maisie Adam, Guz Khan and Catherine Cohen are on tour

The Guardian - UK · Dec 26, 2022

The big name acts coming to Edinburgh Fringe this year

Ian McKellen, Josie Long, and Nish Kumar are just a few of the famous faces performing this year.

Edinburgh Live · Aug 5, 2022

'Scottish independence the dream scenario', English comic says after move north

SCOTTISH independence is the “dream scenario” for UK politics, an English comedian has said after moving north of the Border.

The National (Scotland) · Jul 25, 2022

Josie Long: ‘I’d love to see someone defend free speech for leftwing activists’

On her return to the Edinburgh fringe, the comedian talks about moving to Glasgow, being diagnosed with ADHD, and convincing people not to vote Tory

The Guardian - UK · Jul 24, 2022