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Michael Brunström
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Michael Brunström is a British comedian active since 2014. His shows have been described as absurd, surreal, and existential, have often contained historical references, and usually involve audience-participation and props. Early Life Michael Brunström has a degree in Classics from Cambridge University and trained with Ken Campbell. Career Brunström has performed five full-length shows at the Edinburgh Fringe and at other comedy festivals, has participated in the The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society and is a member of the Weirdos Collective. In 2014 he was listed by Chortle as one of the weirdest acts at the Edinburgh Fringe. which won the Chortle Award for Best Event of the Year. In the same year The Independent highlighted Brunström as part of a movement towards silliness and surrealism in comedy. In 2018 Martin Willis, also writing for The Independent, called him one "of the very best acts in comedy". Awards and honours Brunström won the 2015 Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality (which he was also nominated for in 2014) and has twice been nominated for Best Festival Poster at the Leicester Comedy Festival Live shows * 2014 - The Human Loire * 2015 - The Golden Age of Steam * 2016 - The Haywain Reloaded * 2017 - Parsley * 2018 - The Great Fire of London * 2019 - World of Sports 
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