Dannie's Funny Bone: November
4-11-15
Every month Dannie will choose for us what's hot in Hong Kong's comedy scene. You can always see what's happening in Hong Kong at HKELD's comedy partner, Comedy.HK. This month Dannie's chosen performer is Josie Long.
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“Skim milk is too weird!” Josie Long shouts, echoing the sentiments of everyone with taste buds as she talks about Special K cereal’s – the ‘cornflakes light cereal for girls’ “Get slimmer this summer by eating Special K” ad campaign. “Why is it so dry? It’s not lunch, it’s breakfast! What time is it, is it morning? It tastes like its morning!”
Long, who calls herself a “12-year-old bully trapped in an adult’s body,” will make a stop in Hong Kong on Nov. 6 for a one-night-only performance. A long-time veteran of the British comedy scene, Long started performing stand up comedy at 14, winning the BBC New Comedy Awards at the age of 17.
She’s published her own free fanzine, called “Drawing Moustaches In Magazines Monthly Magazine (Bi-Monthly),” and performed in comedy festivals worldwide, including the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the New Zealand Comedy Festival and the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival. However, she is perhaps best known for her remarkable seven appearances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, most recently performing her show “Cara Josephine,” which centers on family and doomed relationships.
Though her show starts with heartbreak, Long is a “cult optimist,” who doesn’t do “nasty comedy,” said Hong Kong-based, British-born comedian Nick Milnes, who will host Long’s show.
Her enthusiasm and optimism shine through even with the name of her show: “Cara Josephine” is named after her niece. “She was born when I was writing it [the show] and I felt so overwhelmed with love that I wanted to do it as a present to her”, Long told The Guardian in January 2015. “I’m not wealthy, I haven’t got my own house or my own family, I can’t even drive, and in a lot of ways I’m not a great adult role-model, but I thought this was a way of showing her that I love her.”
Long will be performing on Nov. 6 at Sunset Lounge, L4, Le Meridien Cyberport, 100 Cyberport Rd, Hong Kong Island. Tickets can be purchased at www.comedy.hk/josielong for $300 per person. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the show starts at 9 p.m. This performance is sponsored by Comedy.HK
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