Josie Long: Romance and Adventure

For her first time back in Melbourne since 2010, UK comic Josie Long of Orphington, Kent delivers an exuberant show that is perhaps just a little bit inspiring. Long's off-the-cuff introduction to the show has the audience laughing early and loudly. It's hard to know how she will keep up her madcap energy. But once she mentions her “loooooove” for social justice the show takes a turn. With a serious message to pass on Long does well to preach her disdain for inequality without letting the comedy fade away -- hitting the crowd relentlessly with hilarious asides. Well aware of the hypocrisy of her life as a comedian, Long riffs on her own natural talents in aristocratic pursuits, Richard Branson and of course the Tories. The final section has Long contemplating her life at 30, and when the show closes many are appreciating the lighting-quick mind of Josie Long.