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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

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

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

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Josie Long: Now Is the Time of Monsters review – beauty in the beasts

Candid family snapshots meet leftist politics and wondrous prehistoric megafauna in Long’s singular take on the state of the world

The Guardian - UK

Best of the fest: 10 of the best shows to catch at this year’s Edinburgh fringe

An undead club manager, sperm donor shenanigans and the pitfalls of trying to work with AI – just a few of the themes of this year’s hottest tickets

The Guardian - UK

'Our brightest star': Scottish comics pay tribute to 'titan of comedy' Janey Godley

SCOTTISH comedians have paid tribute to Janey Godley following the Glasgow comic's death on Saturday...

The National (Scotland)

Famous stand-ups line up to support refugees with comedy fundraiser

THE Scottish Refugee Council has announced the starry line-up for its No Borders Comedy Night fundraiser.

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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

‘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

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

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

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

'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)

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

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TV to the rescue! The small screen’s battle to save the planet

From Blue Planet II to House of Games, programme-makers are putting the climate crisis on screen – and rethinking how the whole industry operates. The aim? Net zero by 2030

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh festival 2022: 50 shows to see

Phil Wang makes a heroic return, Ian McKellen stars in a balletic Hamlet and Sophie Duker is gleefully carefree. Here are our picks of the festival’s comedy, theatre and dance

The Guardian - UK

Forgiveness review – new dad Jonny Donahoe returns to childhood trauma

Donahoe tells the story of his partner, Josie Long’s pregnancy, and how approaching parenthood revived memories of abuse

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