How long until the sexy clowns get their own section in the Fringe programme?

Going to be doing some comedy at the Yellow Book in Brighton tonight. Pop down if you can, it’d he lovely to see you.

I hope JD Vance comes to the UK to campaign for Reform.

A pile of books and zines.

My books and zines can be obtained here:
michaelbrunstrom.co.uk/books

#books #zines

Typewritten note: I may not be young any more, but I am in far better physical health than my spam folder wants me to believe.

My first four zines: TRUMPETS LUNGS HAMMERS CLOWNS Now available

The first four issues of my zine are now available.
#zines

Hugh Laurie as George in the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth. “I’m scared, sir.”

a michael brunstrom zine CLOWNS [crude drawing of clown] no. 4 (apr. ‘26)

Just finished my fourth zine: CLOWNS.
I found this a tricky topic, but I love making these and I’m very pleased with the result. Next month: SALADS.
#zine #clowns

No, but I am somewhat beholden to a creative industry that expects me to behave as though I do.

Typewritten note: For some years now, it’s been on my mind to develop a piece of solo comedy about 10-15 minutes long (a “set”, if you will) specifically for me to perform at mixed-bill nights. This is what“proper comedians” do.

Kubrick turned his hand to every genre: war, sci fi, costume drama, horror, to name but a few.

If only he had lived to direct a Hallmark Christmas movie.

Note: if, in the twenty-first century, your government is erecting buildings in a monumental classical style, in white and gold, it’s fascist.

Babes in arms policy: Babies are not allowed in the venue, please refer to the age suitability for the show

www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

The poster shows me looking baffled/inspired in an Alpine hat with a arrow through my head. Behind, an Alp. Above, a pixellated apple with

EDINBURGH FRINGE 2026 ANNOUNCEMENT
I’m thrilled to be bringing this stirring and surreal caper to the yurt for two weeks this August.
See you there – tickets now on sale (link below).
Down with the algorithm!
Death to tyrants!
Freedom for Switzerland!
🇨🇭🏹🍎
#edfringe #MixItUp #WilliamTell

Typewritten note: This morning I will be making an important announcement.

Typewritten note: I still do not know what I want to be when I grow up

Trump makes Ubu look nuanced.

U.S. OPEN JOKE It's called the U.S. Open because it's open to both tennis players and golfers.

Typewritten note: When the moon hits your eye, like amore, that’s a big pizza pie.

Got more London previews lined up. I will be posting relentlessly about them, but I also need you to pay attention and cross-check all dates against your availability in order for us to make this work. Just a heads up. Don’t mean to sound harsh.

Me holding up a copy of theatre@risk by Michael Kustow.

It’s #worldtheatreday so I got this in the Oxfam Bookshop on Bloomsbury Street.

A photo of a man with a camel. Someone has written I’M A SILLY SAUSAGE over the camel’s face.

Best graffiti of the day. #graffiti

Dear “gender realists”,
The bible literalists agree with you.

Don't Put Your Daughter On The Stage Mrs Worthington YouTube video by bondfan007a

I just remembered this 1998 charity tribute album, curated by Neil Tennant, of the songs of Noël Coward. Some interpretations are straightforward; others baffling, like this intense and moody version of “Don’t Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs Worthington” by Vic Reeves.

youtu.be/vay1pZjWMCk?...

A small bit of a decorated plate held in a washing-up-gloved hand.

The same hand holds a fragment of pottery imprinted with some sort of trifoil decoration.

The Thames foreshore below Tate Modern.

Some tiny bits of glazed crockery in my glove.

Not sure why some days I find loads of fascinating fragments and other days… very little. It might be the way the sunlight picks out bright objects, or my timing, or my mood. It doesn’t matter. The time spent exploring the foreshore is the real treasure. #mudlarking

I don’t like how ‘Epstein Files’ is lazily used as a punchline in comedy.

A bottle of Co Op “Quad Strength” Orange Squash. Caption: “Kiss your flimsy thigh muscles goodbye.”

Or a copper knee.

Typewritten note: I fear I may have a tin ear for comedy.

Worryingly, I seem to have a tin ear for comedy.