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🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Michael Brunström is a surrealist comedian and performance artist known for his wildly inventive, often absurd solo shows that blur the line between stand-up, theatre, and dadaist performance. He won the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2015 for his show The Golden Age of Steam, and he’s been a regular on the alternative comedy circuit ever since.
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0:00.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
0:05.0 | Warning, the following podcast contains strong language, bizarre theories, |
0:10.0 | unexplainable experiences, and a simulation-proving seashell. |
0:15.0 | It may not be suitable for younger weirdos. |
0:18.0 | Listen, Dan, if you ever mean your hero |
0:22.1 | and your hero takes you to a door |
0:24.5 | and asks you, are you coming in? |
0:28.4 | Life is trying to teach you a lesson right there. |
0:33.9 | Oh, ha, ha, ha, oh, Hey, everyone. |
0:56.7 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to another episode of We Can Be Weirdos. My name is Dan Shriver. |
0:58.3 | I am coming to you today from my home at Roughway by C. |
1:02.0 | Today we've got a very exciting guest, a surrealist comedian who is also a recipient of the |
1:07.6 | Malcolm Hardy Award for Comic Originality. |
1:10.2 | Now this is an award that takes place up in |
1:12.7 | Edinburgh. It's a very coveted award amongst comedians because as it says in the title, it is |
1:18.6 | awarded to comedians who are doing things differently, doing things interestingly. There's a few |
1:23.5 | awards as part of the ceremony. You've got comic originality. There's the Malcolm Hardy Cunning |
1:28.2 | Stunt Award, which is great. And that's been won by big comedians like Stuart Lee. He got it |
1:34.3 | for successfully encouraging people to vote for the little-known Japanese act, Frank Chickens, |
1:39.7 | in a poll for the best fringe performer. 2014, it went to Christian Talbot for getting his 12-year-old daughter, Kate, to walk |
1:47.6 | up to strangers and say, have you seen my daddy? |
1:50.6 | And if they said no, she would hand a flyer out to them. |
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