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Mel ‘Motorboat’ McGlensey
@melmcglensey.bsky.social
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Clown//Comedian//Writer//Motorboat

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doougle.net
Hey London -

@melmcglensey.bsky.social is performing her award-winning clown show MOTORBOAT this week:

Nov 12 & 13
Pleasance London

Maybe the last time ever to catch the show in the UK?

Tickets:
www.pleasance.co.uk/event/mel-mc...
Mel McGlensey is Motorboat | Pleasance Theatre Trust
www.pleasance.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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doougle.net
Super excited to share that I will be attending @playtopia.bsky.social in Cape Town in December! I've heard such good things about the festival.

I'll be there giving a talk (playtopiafestival.co.za/program-satu...) and exhibiting a new iteration of Canopy Co-op (doougle.itch.io/canopy-coop)
Photo of hanging PS Move controllers in a garage. The controllers are hanging by strings, glowing different colors (pink, yellow, green, white). A painted wall with test is blurry in the background. Photo by Nick Robertson.
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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theacms.bsky.social
#ACMS
📆 Monday 10th November
🏰 The Phoenix
🎟️ £5-£10 online from wegottickets.com/event/679644/
😻 hosted by turlygod.bsky.social, with @hollyburncomedy.bsky.social, @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social, @melmcglensey.bsky.social, @wifiwars.bsky.social AND MORE
🌈 free guestlist for trans & non-binary folk
The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) The Phoenix, Cavendish Sq, by Oxford Circus Monday 10th November 2025, 7:30pm-10:40ish Thom Tuck (MC) with umpteen excellent guests: Adrian Gray, Cheekykita, Holly Burn, Ian Lane, Jacob Edwards, Jess Glez, Martin Willis, Mel McGlensey, Nick Kirk and Wi-Fi Wars £5/£7/£10 online, from wegottickets.com £12 at the gig, doors open 7pm noblefailure.org
October 14, 2025 at 11:07 AM
melmcglensey.bsky.social
wowowow A Judge Pick! For our super normal show? How kind!

Only 3 more nights to catch the most normal show at Melb Fringe! And it's a different show every night so you can keep comin back for more normal ;)

8:30pm (7:30Sun) Trades Hall. On till the 12th.
www.melbournefringe.com.au/whats-on/eve...
Show poster that says Judges' Pick at the top and Melbourne Fringe Festival at the bottom. In the middle, a tilted square photo of a zoomed in silly face showing teeth and wide open eyes.
October 10, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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comedyclub4kids.bsky.social
In Edinburgh? Come see @melmcglensey.bsky.social gig for us at #assemblyfest Piccolo for #edfringe this week! And listen to her being SO VERY GUFF WISE on our podcast too!

📻 shows.acast.com/33249a2e-3f0...
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July 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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comedyclub4kids.bsky.social
Edinburgh! KIDS! Our #edfringe run starts today: join us at the #AssemblyFest Piccolo at 3:05pm to see @robinjmorgan.bsky.social* MCing Phil O'Shea, @melmcglensey.bsky.social and improvisers @totallyimprovised.bsky.social*! www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

* Have their own kids shows to see too!
August 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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theacms.bsky.social
#ACMS
🗓️ TONIGHT!
🏰 @monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social, One
🕛 23:55-laaate
🎟️ £8.50 tickets from www.edfringe.com/tickets/what... PWYW on exit
😻 hosted by @turlygod.bsky.social & @kathyrivett.bsky.social, with e.g. @andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social, @edyhurst.bsky.social, @melmcglensey.bsky.social AND MORE
The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) *fresh! Sisyphean! comedy!* Monkey Barrel, One 23:55-02:45ish Sundays-Wednesdays August 3-6, 10-13, 17-20, 24 £8.50/PWYW on exit noblefailure.org tinyurl.com/acms25 monkeybarrelcomedy.com AltComMemSoc theacms | #ACMS
August 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
melmcglensey.bsky.social
Rehearsals are going WELL. But there’s a reason dogs aren’t allowed on the boat.

Only 2 more weeks till MOTORBOAT opens at @pleasance.co.uk for @edfringe.bsky.social

💕🚤💕🚤
July 20, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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doougle.net
Next week! Our new clown show, pulling inspiration from videogame narrative design.

Special pre-Edinburgh sneak peek in Naarm/Melb!
bsky.app/profile/melm...
melmcglensey.bsky.social Mel ‘Motorboat’ McGlensey @melmcglensey.bsky.social · Jul 2
Pssst. Want a sneak peek of my new show Mel McGlensey is NORMAL?
I’m doing a WIP at The Motley Bauhaus July 17, 18th and 19th before I jet off to Edinburgh. 8:30pm. $10 tix!

Come along for a very normal time, super regular, nothing weird!

www.eventfinda.com.au/2025/wip-mel...
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July 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
melmcglensey.bsky.social
Pssst. Want a sneak peek of my new show Mel McGlensey is NORMAL?
I’m doing a WIP at The Motley Bauhaus July 17, 18th and 19th before I jet off to Edinburgh. 8:30pm. $10 tix!

Come along for a very normal time, super regular, nothing weird!

www.eventfinda.com.au/2025/wip-mel...
Brunette woman with curly hair peeks out from behind a white wall. The background is also white.
July 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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doougle.net
"Come along for a one-of-a-kind collaborative clown experience plumbing the depths of normaldom, as decided by you. Let's have a normal one, folks!"

www.pleasance.co.uk/event/mel-mc...
Show poster, titled: "Mel McGlensey is NORMAL". Four award laurels at top. Photo is a zoomed-out full body photo of a woman in a white tennis dress, standing awkwardly and grinning at the camera. The background is entirely white and empty. Middle of the poster reads: "Stop the clown from being weird". Bottom of the poster reads: "Pleasance Courtyard Below, 23:05, 12th - 24th August, Presented by BRIGHTSIDE, Directed by Sharnema Nougar, Co-created by Douglas Wilson"
June 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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doougle.net
🎭 ANNOUNCING 🎭

Mel McGlensey is NORMAL

"Stop the clown from being weird"

a brand new @melmcglensey.bsky.social clown show, co-created by me and w/ live tech by me

Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
August 12-24

Tickets here:
www.pleasance.co.uk/event/mel-mc...
Show poster, titled: "Mel McGlensey is NORMAL". Four award laurels at top. Photo is a zoomed-in face, eyes wide open and weird grin. Bottom of the poster reads: "Pleasance Courtyard Below, 23:05, 12th - 24th August, Presented by BRIGHTSIDE, Directed by Sharnema Nougar, Co-created by Douglas Wilson"
June 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
melmcglensey.bsky.social
I'm behind on my post-MICF posting BUT what an honor to have our weird lil show selected twice in The Age's roundup of "the best heckles, riskiest jokes and strangest moments" of the fest!

@vidyarajan.bsky.social and I are also stoked we got to meet so many Gregs!

now to sleep till the next fest!
April 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
melmcglensey.bsky.social
Some beautiful praise for GREG from @keithgow.bsky.social at Theatre First! Only 5 more chances to get your greg on, 9:10 at Chinese Museum.
two women in front of the audience hold hands and strike a dramatic pose, there is a man from the audience joining him but a smiley face has been put over his face. two women in front of the audience hold hands and strike a dramatic pose two women in front of the audience hold hands and strike a dramatic pose as if mid-dance two women in front of the audience hold hands and strike a dramatic pose as if mid-dance, there is a man from the audience joining him but a smiley face has been put over his face.
April 16, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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keithgow.bsky.social
GREG is for Gregs and non-Gregs alike. It's a wild hour of alt-comedy from @vidyarajan.bsky.social and @melmcglensey.bsky.social and it was my final show of this year's comedy festival. It's Greggselent. www.keithgow.com/2025/04/revi...
REVIEW: Vidya Rajan & Mel McGlensey, GREG – Melbourne Comedy Festival
Are you a Greg? Do you know a Greg? You don’t have to be a Greg to enjoy GREG but it helps. I mean, you could cosplay as a Greg, identify as...
www.keithgow.com
April 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
melmcglensey.bsky.social
Wow wowwow. @vidyarajan.bsky.social and I only ever set out to impress Gregs but some of the non-gregs at The Age said some lovely things about the show!

Only one week left to catch the show, 9:10pm at The Chinese Mus until the 20th of April!
Two women strike poses with faces direct to camera. One has her arm raised in the air and the other has her hand beneath the chin. Two women strike poses over a mirror that is on the floor. They are both leaning forward. The show poster for Greg. Two women strike poses over a mirror with faces two camera. They're wearing mesh and black and blue clothing.
April 14, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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vidyarajan.bsky.social
We opened GREG last night & it's been a blast. Come if u need a real dose of silliness this melbourne comedy festival. And pls bring a Greg!!!

@melmcglensey.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
melmcglensey.bsky.social
Loving this beautiful write up about @vidyarajan.bsky.social and my upcoming show, Greg. We open April 8th, get amongst it!
If you know a Greg or are a Greg then this show is for you
Greg is an hour of absurdist sketch, improv and character comedy, taking as its starting point a pair of comedians’ fascination for a completely ordinary name.
www.theage.com.au
April 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
melmcglensey.bsky.social
My mom gets very excited about Aussie animals but can’t remember their names super well. Just now she yelled out (very loudly) that she had seen a “huge blue tongue skank”
January 29, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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doougle.net
@melmcglensey.bsky.social is performing MOTORBOAT at Perth Fringe, Feb 1-16:
fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/mel...
Mel McGlensey is MOTORBOAT | FRINGE WORLD Festival - 17 Jan to 16 Feb 2025
Batten down the hatches and seal your porthole! It’s time for the silliest, most outrageous, naughty and nautical show ever made about someone who is part boat, part woman... and full clown. Come with...
fringeworld.com.au
January 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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clairegcoleman.bsky.social
Australia is the only colonial nation to celebrate it's national day on the anniversary of the invasion by colonisers.
kirstimiller30.bsky.social Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · Jan 25
Reminding the planet on Australia Day 2025, Australia is the only Commonwealth Country not to sign a First Nation Treaty.

Colonial fantasy lies in the belief that colonialism is already over!

youtu.be/Jf-jHCdafZY?...
January 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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doougle.net
Here's a glimpse at one of the projects I'm doing next, as I get more involved making clown shows w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social

Hoping to debut our new show at , fingers crossed!
bsky.app/profile/melm...
melmcglensey.bsky.social Mel ‘Motorboat’ McGlensey @melmcglensey.bsky.social · Jan 21
Exciting new projects in the works 👀
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January 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
melmcglensey.bsky.social
Exciting new projects in the works 👀
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January 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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brocklesnitch.bsky.social
Big week for me legally releasing some of the hate in my heart ☺️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
melmcglensey.bsky.social
Just spotted my first ever WILD KOALA!! Am obsessed. I’ve named him Pickles and he’s my perfect marsupial son. Look at him jump!
January 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM