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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fresh off a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, my show Legend is coming to the Soho Theatre for three nights 29-31st October. Grab yer tickets here 👇 sohotheatre.com/events/madel...

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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thanks to everyone who came to see Legend @edfringe.bsky.social 🖤 More to come. Watch this space.

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Then Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social at @gildedballoon.bsky.social Teviot, 8.20 - boy this is a special show. Relentlessly funny even when going to some dark places, Madeleine is an amazing storyteller with such a high hit rate, plus easily the best use of a firework at the Fringe

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Ed H @edhind.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Saw this yesterday, and it deserves to win all sorts of stuff. The best written show I’ve seen so far at #edfringe, every line crafted beautifully, every dark gag delivered with sly charm. Very much recommended.

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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“With this swaggeringly confident and clinically executed debut hour, last year's So You Think You're Funny? winner reiterates that she's an absolute killer on stage.” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in @scotsman.com Come see Legend at the Gilded Balloon, 8.20pm, Aug 5-31 Tickets in bio apple.news/A5l0HbuOsQPC...

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Fringe comedy reviews: Madeleine Brettingham | Pierre Novellie | Those People | Paddy Young | Tom Ballard — The Scotsman

In our critics’ latest Fringe comedy round-up, a late convert to stand-up proves swaggeringly confident, while a comedian who spends too much of his show complaining about getting three-star reviews g...

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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

An honour not to be on The Moment with Miles Jupp last week. Hope not to be not on it again in future. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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S4 Episode 6 without Madeleine Brettingham

Podcast Episode · The Moment with Miles Jupp · 3 July · 12min

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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Corn dolly, witchcraft exhibition, Christchurch.

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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

“If you work you get paid. We have to be able to demand this right as much for Instagram dogs as for the next Michelangelo.” madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/slop-monge...

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Slop mongers of the world unite

Some notes on a new labour movement for writing

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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

"As a writer, I can enjoy rolling the words around in my head. As a stand-up, I have to enjoy the sensation of them coming out of my face." I wrote a bit about the transition from writing for others to writing for myself. madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/legend

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Legend

On writing for myself

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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

“What does it take to become a legend?“ Come see my debut show Legend at @gildedballoon in August. tickets.gildedballoon.co.uk/event/14:6752/

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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

RIP Steve. Just sitting in a room with you was awe-inspiring and I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder. In a just world you would have been some sort of global overlord. A lovely man and a genuine bone fide genius. I hope you knew that. You will be missed XXX

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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Edinburgh tickets are now on sale 🎟️ Madeleine Brettingham: Legend Gilded Balloon, Wee Room, 8.20pm, August 5-31 tickets.gildedballoon.co.uk/event/14:6752/

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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Lots of fun to be on BBC Radio Scotland’s Breaking the News this week (today, 1.30pm) with the brilliant Alexandra Haddow, Ignacio Lopez, Raymond Mearns and of course Des Clarke www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio Scotland - Breaking the News, Glasgow International Comedy Festival Special: Raymond Mearns, Madeleine Brettingham and Ignacio Lopez

Des Clarke hosts Scotland's award-winning satirical news quiz.

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Little Wander @littlewander.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🌟 International Women’s Day Comedy Gala 📍 Newport, The Riverfront Theatre ⏰ Doors: 19:00, Show starts: 19:30 📅 Sat 7 March 🎭 MC Alexandra Haddow, Felicity Ward, Sikisa, Mel Owen, Madeleine Brettingham, June Tuesday 🎟️ f.mtr.cool/rkmjknjdfg

Graphic promoting International Women’s Day Comedy Gala. Details in caption.

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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Absolute pleasure to be on @drunkwomenpod.bsky.social with the brilliant @taylorglenn.bsky.social and Hannah George talking about my hatred of canoes open.spotify.com/episode/3vlO...

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The Naked Truth, with Madeleine Brettingham

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Sad/evil. Works.

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Leroy @leroylynch.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Was free, then the paywall kicked in (in that substack way where articles mysteriously change status after a while), now free again! This perceptive article on "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin" is well worth a read if you missed it the first time.

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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

In London tomorrow night? This will be fun 🥳

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Machynlleth Comedy Festival @machcomedyfest.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

17 MORE SHOWS ON SALE NOW! Even more tickets on sale for a spectacular array of shows, including: Paul Foot, Sean Morley, Sooz Kempner, Madeline Brettingham, Anu Vaidyanathan and many more! Tickets at machcomedyfest.co.uk 🎟️

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Jacob Hatton @jacobhashishaton.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

But once you get there, there’s no real next step. The existence of actual money to pay for things regularly to live on. A friend won a lot of awards in fringe with a play. He was of course asked to do a seminar on “improving access for working class artists”. They did not offer a fee.

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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I’m going to be at this year’s Latitude along with David Byrne (probably slightly smaller scale than pictured). Link to tix in bio x

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The linked essay by Madeleine Brettingham is so good, I’m going to have to read it again, at a slightly slower pace to take it all in.

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Here is an excellent piece on the subject from @littlemaddles.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/litt...

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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

“I didn’t have rich parents, a childhood bedroom to return to or an infatuated billionaire intent on marrying me. Either writing had to make me money or I couldn’t do it. “ I wrote about making a living from writing in the new economy. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Please sir can I have some more

On making a living as a writer

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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Yep. If people turned up every day to make widgets at a factory, the factory sold those widgets at a profit but didn’t pay its workers a living wage it would be called what it is: exploitation. Arts and entertainment, however they are distributed, are no different.

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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 03/02/2026

This is an astonishingly good piece about the challenges writers (and everyone, increasingly) are facing in the billionaire economy. Please read and share!

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

So we're in this hyperindividualist phase, where everything single product must stand on its own, so individual creators get no space to play and experiment and do daft shit that might take off but will probably not (but would have been beneficial to do either way), because no one will take...

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Ciarán Moffatt HS, TS, BPAD, FND & Gout. @therexposition.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

What am I bid for a tale of poverty and mental illness in outer suburban Adelaide? It comes with a broken home, school expulsion, LGBT+ and disability! I'll throw in the time I got hit by a car!

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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Reminds me I came up with this solution to the problems of the new economic model in the arts back on Twitter

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Coincidentally, there has been some correspondence on the subject of poverty wages earned by writers in the Guardian letters pages – but compare and contrast the headlines. Firstly, from the 16th January. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

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Art is good for mental health? Not when you’re a novelist in poverty | Letter

Letter: Publishing pays abysmally, says an anonymous writer, who feels closer to their neighbours on benefits than to their former peers in teaching and academia

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Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

It is true of every creative industry; all becoming hobbies for rich people's children (even those which were possible, like advertising, have not moved on pay since the late 00's)

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

And the work that does make it into the public space then is stripped of its monetisation. All the digital channels paying zero repeat fees. YouTube with its adverts for multinational companies bookending content scraped off the BBC, with nothing going to the creators or back into programmes…

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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Absolutely - and in old media reputation-building had whole departments and agencies devoted to it. It was a separate job. Now everyone has to do it themselves.

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Michael Cox @mcoxinscotland.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

A very interesting read—and not just for writers.

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Dulwich Raider @andrewgrumbridge.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

A wonderful piece of writing about the struggle to make writing pay and the reasons behind it. Madeleine did a work-in-progress stand up show at the pub recently. I now realise it was probably one of 50 things she did that week.

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Kirsten Amy @kirstenp.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This is exceptional, and entirely correct

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

‘Writing has often provided a path for wily parvenus to slither their way into the upper classes and take free holidays in stately homes while silently sneering at their intellectually inferior social betters and I was hoping that would one day be me.’

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