New London comics
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By Malcolm Hay. Photography Rob Greig
Posted: Tue Sep 19 2006 
Even by MI5 standards, this was a shoddily disguised bugging devise Andrew Lawrence
Sell your act in a line... 'I leave all the necessities of promotion in the hands of my management'Age 26.
Manor Croydon.
Who is he? In a rasping, croaky voice he tells tales of his miserable upbringing in a dysfunctional family and his own shocking patterns of behaviour. Abandoned by his parents, he was brought up by squirrels and became a feral child. He once put his mother in a particularly tasty lasagne. It’s just one among many stories of extreme violence. Audiences detest or adore him. Feature continues
AdvertisementLawrence went to university in Scotland, worked in a library for a year and moved to London after he came second in the So You Think You’re Funny? competition in 2003. He used to get nervous when he went on stage: ‘I don’t now. It wasn’t helpful.’ At the Edinburgh Festival he was shortlisted for the if.comeddie Best Newcomer Award. He views the prospect of fame with mixed feelings. ‘The more successful I become, the earlier I might have to get up. If I achieve a level of success where I have to get up before 9.30am, the only solution will be to rest on my laurels.’
Worst gig A ‘Spank!’ show at the Edinburgh Fringe last year. ‘Heckled by a drunk man. Invited him on stage for a fight. Had a fight on stage. Lost. Rescued by bouncers. Tried to finish my act. Booed by the audience. Went home, had a cry.’
Favourite comedians No comment.
Favourite London clubs The Red Rose Comedy Club: ‘It has a dilapidated charm. On a night when it’s not full, the indifference of the audience is deafening, but when it’s packed the audience can be sweetly reverential and it can be magic.’
Look out for Comedy Store gigs (October 19-21) on his return from a festival in South Africa.
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11 comments
Is Josie Long a comedian? Really? Why isn't she funny then?
She is about as funny as a burning orphanage
I've tried very hard to like this lass, but she's not funny AT ALL. Sorry.
SHE NOT FUNNY AT ALL. wtf is wrong with people?
hi there,you made me laugh,im intrested in holding a comedy night an would like you to be apart of it. if you can contact me on,07940 975897,or my email above. thans.kim
This is the voice of The Electric Head - I am telepathically beaming these words directly into your brain, I'm sorry about that, but I have no choice. Go to www.myspace.com/theelectrichead and follow the links to itunes for more information...a new age of comedy is dawning...
She's well funny. She made me actually want to go out and buy a load of chickpeas and eat them. I don't even like chick peas. She didn't even talk about them in her act. I didn't even see her act.
Bloody terrifying, actually, when I come to think about it. But she is well funny. If a bit freakily higher power psychic with the chick pea thing.
All this is well and good...but...Josie Long is simply not REMOTELY funny.
I have since seen Sarah and she is now a member. You to can be one by typing The Stuffed Owl Consortium into a search engine of your choice. Its great fun.
i saw josie long last night at and she is a sweet sweet slice of sunshine. i think i'm a bit in love with her
Bloody Hells Bells. I used to work with Sarah Millican. And now she's getting in Time out. Thats great that. If you see her tell her she can join my new club what I've started up. Its called The Stuffed Owl Consortium.