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8That’s how I feel… Like the fact that I always use sensible shoes; I feel like: Well, you might be wearing shoes you think are beautiful, but when the apocalypse comes, I will run and jump over a wall.
Josie Long (via teeaah)
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Josie on Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
Josie Long was first tricked by someone in the audience into giving a false answer and then she lost the whole game.
She took it really well.
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A GIGANTIC HAPPY 30TH TO THE BIG J-LONG.
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When I do my tours really creative people come. They’ve shown up and they’re like, “Oh, I made this comic, I don’t know if you’ll like it.” so that’s really great. I’ve got to meet people around the world who’ve been fascinating. I love that I’ve got to go to other countries to do my job.
I like the camaraderie. People in general are so supportive of one another, they really are. It’s not bitchy, it’s not anything like that. You go to Edinburgh and see your peers and they’re so wonderful and you feel really inspired.
I don’t like how under scrutiny you feel sometimes. I don’t like hard it is sometimes to feel like you’re really on form for a long time. Some bitter nerds are a bit hard to deal with. I don’t like how sexist it can be in the media mainly. But in general I love it, and it is what I wanted to do.
I like the freedom that I’ve got to get up when I want most of the time; I don’t hate myself for getting up late, I quite enjoy it. I like the free food backstage, I like clapping and I like making people laugh.
I like it when you really do wonderfully well; it’s magic.
Josie Long, on being a comedian.
Full interview here.
| Barry Donavan: | You took part in Robin Ince’s Carols for Godless People last December. Is atheism very important to you? |
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| Josie Long: | It is and it isn’t. It is because I am an atheist and I‘m proud of it and I feel it’s very important to protect and respect secular culture and I think it’s very much a part of all the different things I believe and feel strongly about but also it isn’t because I respect religious people who are kind and I like some of the things that religion makes people do; community dinners and charity work and things like that. |
| I don’t have massive disrespect for religion in that way that some atheists do, and I feel there’s a lot of ways that it can not matter quite a lot in daily life. It doesn’t matter if someone believes in a religion as long as they’re kind to everyone and don’t ever talk about it. And don’t let it affect the way they dress or behave. As long as that happens, it’s fine; believe in whatever fruity business you like. | |
| I’m not really in the business of converting people, but maybe that’s because most of my friends are atheists, or agnostic or, at the very least, rational and sceptical. I’m much more of an evangelical feminist. I like making my atheism prominent; I don’t mind anyone knowing about it and will quite happily talk about it. When Christian Voice were harassing Stewart Lee, then I will be quite militant about atheism but it’s more I’m anti the bad aspects of religion than anti people having a god if they want to have one. |
“I thought that if you were a big laugher, or you had a nice face… then I would throw a satsuma at your head.”
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Activism is like my new favourite hobby. Action makes you feel better. Taking any kind of positive action is the only way to deal with feeling distraught and frustrated at the government. The current British government’s malice and incompetence serves as constant fuel to my activism.
Josie Long in New Internationalist.
