I’m gonna do everything I can to not let this week’s newsletter turn into a rant, because it could definitely go that way. I’d like it to just explore some ideas rather than moan about them, but let’s see how I get on. Apologies in advance if I don’t quite stick the landing. Over the […]

So I tried to film a video where I spoke sincerely to the camera about the creative process and offered a tip which I hoped might be useful to people currently making shows for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. I fuuuuuuucking hated it. It felt soooooo bad. No shade to people who genuinely share earnest and […]

Like Punxsutawney Phil sticking his meddling snout out into the cold air to tell us all it’s still cold, as of this week the programme for the Edinburgh Fringe brochure is now online and on sale (does this make sense as an analogy? Like, a fun annual tradition that heralds mixed feelings from people who […]

You may remember that I have an Odeon MyLimitless+ membership, which entitles the bearer to watch any film at the Odeon for free. You may also remember my previously writing about the fact that this has fostered a healthy attitude of taking risks on films I might otherwise have missed, and of not minding so much when […]

I can’t believe it’s gone so quickly, but remarkably, the tour of You Wait. Time Passes. – a tour which my pride forbids me from referring to as “a UK tour” because there was a date in Amsterdam, but which my humility forbids me from referring to as “a UK and European tour” because surely you need to […]

In an outrageous turn of events, Joz Norris Is Hugh Jackman Is The Phantom Of The Opera just won Best Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival, despite it being a show I have only ever performed twice which remains, in my opinion, in an extremely embryonic state. I half-suspect that the reason it won is because its […]

Forgive the inconsistencies of my communication here lately. I have been, as they say, “on tour.” Having never toured a show beyond its Edinburgh Fringe and subsequent Soho Theatre run before, I had no idea what being on tour entailed, really. So far I would say that its primary function is to make you feel […]

Hi! Just a quick newsletter this week, because I’m ill and tired and run-down. (Long story, but in a nutshell – night coaches are a false economy, the £40 you save is not worth the three to four days of feeling like absolute shit. Also I fell off a skateboard during my show in Leicester […]

Some of you may know that I’m currently working on a new show about The Phantom Of The Opera (playing at the Pleasance in London this Saturday, and in Leicester next Friday!) As the show began to take shape, it became pretty clear that if I was serious about making this, I needed to go and see Phantom again for the […]

A few years ago I made a comedy show about magic. Perhaps you remember it? The one that ended with me and Ben Target dancing to AC/DC and telling the audience to go fuck themselves, shortly after I’d removed all my clothes, smeared myself in pickle juice and shouted “Fresh fish!” at the audience to […]

I’m not quite sure how this happened. If I hadn’t made a habit of sticking a number in the title of every one of these, I doubt I’d even realise that it had. This newsletter stopped being something I actively plan and became an unconscious part of how I organise my time about three years […]

Happy New Year! How’s it treating you? I seem to have kicked off 2026 having made a subconscious decision to scratch myself to shreds in my sleep – I keep waking up with new scars on my face, shoulders, arms, back. The Wolverine claws I recently purchased for my upcoming work-in-progresses of Joz Norris Is Hugh […]

Well, it’s that time of year again. As the New Year rolls around, here at Joz Norris Towers we like to look back at this year’s crop of “My Cultural Highlights of 2025” newsletters written by comedians on Substack and choose a winner. Or at least, that was the plan. But last night, after eating […]

Rob Scratchit took a deep breath. You can do this, Rob Scratchit, he said to himself. With a trembling webbed hand (he was a frog, by the way) he knocked on Karl’s door. “What?” yelled a voice. “Mr Snooge, sir…” Rob began. “Open the fucking door if you want to talk to me, I can’t […]

It’s Black Friday Week, a week that I used to not give one solitary shit about until I started going out with someone with a great nose for a deal. Since then, Black Friday Week has come to be about one thing and one thing only – big discounts on the ODEON MyLimitless Plus subscription, which […]