Ep. 535 - Joz Norris - Award winning comedy writer and performer

My Time Capsule

Cast Off Productions

Comedy, Lee Mack, Interview, Comedy Interviews, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Rob Brydon, Caroline Quentin, Mike Fenton Stevens, David Mitchell, Michael Fenton Stevens, Arabella Weir, Stephen Fry, Ross Noble

4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Joz Norris is an acclaimed comedy writer and performer. He makes unusual shows for the Edinburgh Fringe including the smash hit Joz Norris Is Dead. Long Live Mr Fruit Salad. (winner of the Comedians’ Choice Award for Best Show, nominee for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality, the Chortle Award for Best Music & Variety Act, and longlisted for the Edinburgh Comedy Award) and Blink (one of the Evening Standard’s Top 20 comedy shows of 2022, and sponsored by Arts Council England), both of which transferred to multiple runs at Soho Theatre. In 2020 he adapted You Build The Thing You Think You Are, which would have been a new live show, into a feature film streamed online which was acclaimed as one of the comedy highlights of the year by both the Guardian and the Telegraph. His original sitcom for BBC Radio 4, The Dream Factory, co-written with Miranda Holms, was a radio pick of the week in the Observer, the Times, the Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, and was featured on Radio 4’s Comedy of the Week podcast, and his Radio 4 comedy special A Small Talk On Small Talk was a Guardian Audio Pick of the Week. He was also the co-host and co-creator of BBC Radio 4’s Useless Millennials with Roxy Dunn, and has guest starred in Radio 4’s The Many Wrongs Of Lord Christian Brighty; The Now Show and The Train At Platform 4.

Joz Norris is our guest in episode 535 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .

Tickets for Joz’s tour are available here - https://www.joznorris.co.uk/you-wait-time-passes-uk-tour .

Follow Joz Norris on Instagram & Twitter/X: @JozNorris .

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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .

Music by Pass The Peas Music .

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1:17.7	Hello and welcome to episode 535 of my time capsule.
1:24.7	Yep, 530 times I've asked people to tell me the five things from their life they'd like to put in a time capsule.
1:29.9	My name's Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my guest in this episode is Joss Norris.
1:34.4	Joss is an acclaimed writer, performer, and indeed, writer-performer.
1:38.4	He makes unusual shows for the Edinburgh Fringe, including the smash hit,
1:41.8	Joss Norris is dead, long-lived Mr. Fruit Salad.
1:44.7	Winner of the Comedian's Choice Award for Best Show,
1:48.0	a nominee for the Malcolm Hardy Award for Comic Originality,
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