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Joz Norris

Writer. Actor. Comedian. Maker of Stuff.

Welcome!

Welcome to the website of writer, performer and fool Joz Norris. Make yourself at home! (No need to remove your shoes, you do you). Here you can watch my films and videos, listen to my radio programmes and podcasts, read my news and essays, and delve into my archive of past projects.

For those who just want a quick update on what I’m currently up to,  I am presently:

  • Developing a brand new live show, You Wait. Time Passes, which is playing the Edinburgh Fringe in August at Pleasance, and playing several arts and comedy festivals in the lead-up, including the Buxton and Berlin Fringes.
  • Launching a crowdfunded sitcom pilot, Just Be Happy, which explores the pursuit of happiness and was nominated or longlisted for several writing awards in 2023-4.
  • Working on a scripted comedy audio project with Desiree Burch and Miranda Holms about cross-cultural differences and entrepreneurship
  • Curating, programming and hosting the smash hit short film and new writing night Eggbox at the Pleasance Theatre in London
  • Directing five live shows at EdFringe 2025, by Edy Hurst, the Mayor & His Daughter, Lulu Popplewell, Andy Barr and Tara Boland
  • Writing on the brand new CBBC show Horrible Science
  • Co-writing a smash hit webseries about Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings and various other cult fandoms
  • Co-writing an audio podcast project about a spooky island

Listen to Joz

Radio, Podcast & other audio things...

Nobody Panic - August 2nd, 2022

Nobody Panic

Making Creativity Pay - December 12th, 2022

Making Creativity Pay

In The Room - June 2nd, 2025

In The Room

The Weekly Shop - January 30th, 2022

The Weekly Shop


Past Projects

Welcome to the Archive! Here you can find out a bit more about every major project I’ve authored over the last 10 years, from live shows to short films to radio shows and so on. If you’re a long-time fan then maybe you’ll remember some of these! And if you’ve found my work more recently, then perhaps it’ll be interesting to go back and see what you’ve missed. Where possible, I’ve included links to be able to see the project itself. Enjoy!


The Fruit Salad Therapy Tapes

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Tape 192: Features Creatures

Tape 192: Features Creatures

Joz Norris • Thursday, October 2nd, 2025

I missed a week! I can’t believe it. I’ve opened Substack only to find my dashboard now inhabited by a little blue owl avatar, wings broken, one eye swollen shut, lying sprawled in its own piss. “You broke your Substack streak!” it croaks. “Kill me! Kill me!” “I don’t even remember Substack having a streak […]

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Tape 191: A Cool Party

Tape 191: A Cool Party

Joz Norris • Thursday, September 18th, 2025

This week I went to a Cool Party for the first time in many years. Now I don’t want to do a disservice to my street cred in my very own newsletter, so let me clarify – I haven’t stopped going to parties entirely. I still party. Sometimes I even party hard. “Wow, Joz,” some […]

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Tape 190: Six Questions I Didn’t Know I Wanted To Answer

Tape 190: Six Questions I Didn’t Know I Wanted To Answer

Joz Norris • Friday, September 12th, 2025

This week I chatted with Dan Cushnie for his Substack, in which he interviews comedians about their work, and you can read the interview here (by the by, I notice that Dan mentions having “the odd moment of ineloquence” while interviewing me, and I’d like to state for the record that I didn’t notice any ineloquence whatsoever […]

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What People Say?

A skilful and thoughtful writer who fastidiously avoids boring or obvious choices and excels at being unselfconsciously daft.

TV Bomb.
★★★★★

The Morning Star.
★★★★

Beyond The Joke.
★★★★★

Young Perspective.

A beautifully fully-fleshed depiction of the human experience.

Shortcom.

A comedy legend.

To Do List.
★★★★

Totally brilliant.

Chortle.

Really does capture the spirit of creative Fringe comedy.

The Guardian.

Utterly unique, very weird and a wee bit wonderful.

Fest.

A sort of absurdist Simon Amstell…seldom can half an hour have been so densely packed with meta comedy and existential…

The Guardian.

Joyously silly.

The Evening Standard.
★★★★

A brilliant show that is not short of ambition…it packs a terrific punch.

The Evening Standard.