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sean morley@seanmorl· 5d

And while I'm up I'm doing one one-off show of my prototypical experimental gameshow Sean Morley's Normal Game on Saturday night at half midnight. Youve gotta select the ticket for 9th august tho because it counts as the next day. Thats just how dates work. Tix: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Sean morley's normal game
Multifaceted megaquiz

sean morley@seanmorl· 6d

I'm at the fringe all month with a funny comedy show about [????]. So if you're up in edinburgh or know someone who is then why not risk it all on a hectic hour. Details & tickets: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Liebenspiel presents
The future is here. Mouth wet - eyes hungry

Sean Morley
backchannel
7.50pm monkey barrel the studio
Aug 3 - 30 (not 12, 20)

sean morley@seanmorl· 6d

Cornetto guy came to the show yesterday on a Pay What You Want ticket. Afterwards he shook my hand and told me he loved it and gave me what looked like a tenner but turned out to be 10 turkish lira.

sean morley@seanmorl· 6d

ill try to keep fringe stuff limited to the instagram showbiz sinkhole but im three days in and the shows going pretty well so far. people are writing some nice things.

Sean Morley: Backchannel - Fringe Review
Writer: Thomas Levi
Thomas Levi
1 day ago
2 min read

★★★★★

Sean Morley has built a reputation for pushing the boundaries of what stand-up can be, and Backchannel, playing at Monkey Barrel Comedy, feels like another leap forward: a show that interrogates the relationship between performer and audience while delivering some of the biggest laughs you'll hear in Edinburgh.

“Sean Morley: Backchannel” – Monkey Barrel Comedy, Edinburgh Fringe ★★★★☆
“Excellent comedy that is bang up to date”

This is part of a series of shorter reviews from Edinburgh Fringe, August 2026.

Julie Tyler
(Audience member)
Outstanding! Very original and inventive, and deserving of a much bigger audience. Highly recommended, especially if you fancy a change from the standard stand-up format.

sean morley@seanmorl· 7d

"this is a case of a small delay rather than 'you won't be paid'".

Firm behind one of UK's biggest comedy festivals folds
A man standing on his stager with a crowd in front of him
Image source,Getty Images
Image caption,
Leicester Comedy Festival has taken place for more than 30 years

ByLiam Barnes
East Midlands

sean morley@seanmorl· 20d

Patlabor The Movie 2 (1993)

A heavily damaged Labor (that's what they call the big robots in patlabor) is hoisted out of a tunnel into an area that's full of seagulls

Yukihito Tsuge stands looking through his binoculars surrounded by seagulls.

Shinobu Nagumo stares into the lens surrounded by seagulls

Shinobu Nagumo and Yukihito Tsuge clasp hands while surrounded by seagulls

sean morley@seanmorl· 28d

Patlabor The Movie (1989)

The ceiling of a control room full of birds

Noa Izumi enters the control room full of birds. She says "Birds...?"

Noa Izumi turns to see a raven squawking at her. Her look of surprise is visible between the gaps in the raven's wing feathers.

sean morley@seanmorl· 29d

ah yeah ok. the murderer could have been leftwing *or* they could have been an anarchist *or* they could have been interested in a single thing (unspecified)

Investigators are considering whether leftwing, anarchist and single-issue terrorism (LASIT) played a role in the suspect’s alleged motivation,

sean morley@seanmorl· Jul 11

In May Leicester Comedy Festival's parent company announced payments to most of its artists would be delayed, but that "this is a case of a small delay rather than 'you won't be paid'". Their building's just been repossessed.

Arts venue repossessed due to 'financial struggles'
Street view of The Big Difference venue on Leicester's High Street.
Image caption,
The Big Difference arts venue opened in 2020

By Sonia Kataria
East Midlands
Published
2 hours ago
An arts venue, managed by the charity that runs the annual Leicester Comedy Festival, has been repossessed due to financial issues.

The Big Difference, on the High Street in Leicester city centre, opened its doors in 2020 aimed at showcasing new talent and local performers in music and comedy.

sean morley@seanmorl· Jul 10

Cowabunga

I'll say it again, the WIP of this show last year was the best thing I saw all Fringe, another stroke of genius from comedy’s master experimentalist. I’ll refrain from spoilers, but in typically ingenious style, Morley has found a way to spin gold by centring the audience, turning us all into mischievous hecklers but in a way that actually enriches the show. He’s had a year to tinker with the concept since then, so I’m guessing this will be very finely-tuned, a comedic hall of mirrors from which you will not want to escape.

sean morley@seanmorl· Jul 8

On the 25th July I'll be performing at the Stanley Arts Work In Progress comedy weekend in South London alongside some of the great and good. It'll be my final preview before the Fringe. The last chance to take some wild swings. Full programme here: www.standupatstanley.com/who-is-on

Stanley at Stanley
A Work In Progress Comedy Festival Featuring:
31 Shows in 2 Days
Sam Campbell, Tim Key, Rose Matafeo, Nish Kumar, Daniel Kitson, Lou Sanders, Mark Thomas, Helen Bauer, Laura Smyth, Rob Auton, Elis James, Ayoade Bamgboye, Alison Spittle, Ed Night, Sean McLoughline, Celya AB, Elliot Steel, Will Adamsdale, Sean Morley, Rohan Sharma, John Tothill, Huge Davies, Cairan Dowd, Tom Neenan, Amy Annette, Alice Snedden, Ele McKenzie, Michael Odewale & Li Jin Hao, Tamsyn Kelly, Gavin Osborn and John Osborne

July 25 & 26

sean morley@seanmorl· Jul 7

Upcoming Comedy in #Sheffield Two Edinburgh Preview shows from Eric Rushton (Sean Lock Comedy Award winner) and Sean Morley (me, Sean Morley) at fruit and veg co-operative @regather.bsky.social on 18th July. Tickets: www.ticketsource.com/sean-morley/... @helpsheffield.co.uk

A splitscreen image of Eric Rushton (top left) and Sean Morley (bottom right)

sean morley@seanmorl· Jul 7

this last bit can't be true, can it?

"Morely" can refer to a surname derived from place names or be used informally as a slang term meaning "more or less" or "actually."

sean morley@seanmorl· Jul 7

lets gooooooo

google search telling me that the fastest growing search term for my website is "sean morely" (spelled wrong) with +1 click.

sean morley@seanmorl· Jul 6

Latest newsletter: make the moon great again mentions: ovals in bloodstream, gender affirming violence, disc rot, wasting the moon, edinburgh previews, discount codes, a brief description of an impossible and inadvisable show buttondown.com/seanmorl/arc...

sean morley@seanmorl· Jun 29

a thumbnail of a youtube upload of derek and clive's "this bloke came up to me" routine.

sean morley@seanmorl· Jun 29

what's going on here then

Hi Sean,

We’re reaching out to let you know that we have made the difficult decision to wind down Weebly services in your country due to changes in regulation and to simplify our global operations. Weebly will no longer be available for customers based in Vietnam after 09/20/1999.

sean morley@seanmorl· Jun 28

Thank you to everyone who came to Normal Game this afternoon. Congratulations to our second ever winner Alun the whippet.

Ava Liversidge and Sean Morley with Alun the Whippet draped in their glorious medal. Runner-up Jonathan Holt crouches below.

sean morley@seanmorl· Jun 28

The second of the Normal Game WIP shows comes to Manchester this afternoon. Meet me at Fairfield Social Club at 2pm if you want to get your mind blown open. www.seetickets.com/event/sean-m...

Big data meets big society meets big art.
A gameshow primed to pierce heaven
Sean Morley's Normal Game
multifaceted mega-quiz
www.seanmorl.com/normalgame

sean morley@seanmorl· Jun 22

ok but can you apologise for this bit?

sean morley@seanmorl· Jun 18

Thank you to all brave souls who came to the first Normal Game with me and @avaavavah.bsky.social. And also to our first ever winner @eikebentley.bsky.social! Want to be our second ever winner? The next Normal Game WIP is in Manchester on Sunday 28th: tickets: www.seetickets.com/event/sean-m...

Sean Morley (from Sean Morley's Normal Game) with inaugural winner Eike and co-host and rival Ava Riverside.

sean morley@seanmorl· Jun 10

i might be the most prolific mark dolan streamer in the world

sean morley@seanmorl· Jun 9

This Sunday in Sheffield I'm doing the first Work In Progress for my new medium-tech quiz gameshow. Sean Morley's Normal Game is the first quiz show where the host has not and will not write any questions. It is an experiment. 2pm Sunday, Alder, Sheffield www.seanmorl.com/normalgame

sean morley@seanmorl· Jun 4

Latest newsletter is out. Featuring: - the optimal seat to sit on the coach if you dont want anyone to sit next to you - what is an anti-quiz - the bulletin board aka can a newsletter be a social media platforn sign up: www.seanmorl.com/mailinglist all newsletters: www.seanmorl.com/posts/

a diagram showing the optimal place to sit on a coach if you don't want anyone to sit next to you

sean morley@seanmorl· May 31

The least compromised song contest in Earth history. New songs, new lore, new problems. Morlvision is tonight at 7pm on www.twitch.tv/seanmorl

sean morley@seanmorl· May 29

*MORLVISION* is *this Sunday* Earth's least disgraced international song contest returns with 32 artists, 32 songs, mini-games, diversions, lore and the irredeemable flesh-ghost of Terry Wogan (@bjalborough.bsky.social) Watch & Vote live: Sunday 7pm twitch.tv/seanmorl

sean morley@seanmorl· May 13

he'd love lifeline (2003) imo

the box art for lifeline, a game king charles would love if he could just learn to enunciate

sean morley@seanmorl· May 2

legendary charity shop pull

a soviet pennant. its in cyrillic so i cant type what it says

the same pennant but run through google translate:
to the winner of the all-union socialist competition 1989

sean morley@seanmorl· Apr 29

we/they are so back

sean morley@seanmorl· Apr 15

MORLVISION 2026 SIGNUPS ARE OPEN My funny little song contest is in its sixth year. Hosted by myself and the rewarmed meat of Terry Wogan (@bjalborough.bsky.social). Details: www.seanmorl.com/morlvision Signup: forms.gle/3Q2yzBVsmfLR... Competition broadcast 7pm 31st May @ twitch.tv/seanmorl