@mitchbenn.bsky.social
Comedian. Musician. Writer. Dad. Stepdad. Husband. Friend.
FIVE stars from Get Your Coats On
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Four stars from Lothian Life…
www.lothianlife.co.uk/2025/08/the-...
Full house for The Lehrer Effect today with some very nice feedback from the people in the merch queue (looks like I may have to do The Prisoner next year)…
Also some good reviews coming in…
Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles
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Poster for Mitch Benn The Lehrer Effect, with Mitch in a suit and bow tie playing a guitar by an old-style mic, and a piano with a photo of Tom Lehrer on it
Fans of Tom Lehrer will love @mitchbenn.bsky.social's warm, affectionate tribute to the late singer #edfringe #music #tomlehrer #underbelly
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Woman in summer dress next to man in a white shirt with black trousers and waistcoat. Both smiling.
Flyer for Mitch’s show.
Honoured to get a pic today with @mitchbenn.bsky.social!
Great show: The Lehrer Effect!
Will be recommending to friends (in fact we actually met two of our friends in the queue to go in, so he’s definitely hitting the spot with the ‘60s kids!)
Clever stuff, new material & original Lehrer.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The one that annoys me is ER docs in American hospital dramas referring to “GSWs” which actually takes twice as long to say as “gunshot wounds”
02.08.2025 22:55 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0To what purpose?
02.08.2025 20:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Loved the show today! Great work @mitchbenn.bsky.social - will do a review later…
#EdFringe
#TheLehrerEffect
Happy Bandcamp Friday everyone! With the death of Tom Lehrer, I've been listening to Mitch Benn's new Edinburgh 2025 & International Tour album "The Lehrer Effect"
Who else can rhyme "Non-Binary" and "fine with me" ?
Recommended
@mitchbenn.bsky.social
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"Well all I can say is that nobody ever sexually harassed or racially abused ME"
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It’s #BANDCAMPFRIDAY!!
When BANDCAMP waives its usual cut and the artist gets 100% of your payment.
Out today on Bandcamp: The POWER OF THE MEDIA Album
13 satirical songs about how the media (ab)uses its influence…
mitchbenn.bandcamp.com/album/the-po...
There are now *110*
albums and EPs on my Bandcamp site (many free/pay what you want) including genre and era-themed collections, whole albums devoted to parodies of particular artists and my complete audiobooks of AA Milne’s Winnie the Pooh stories…
Come and have a browse
mitchbenn.bandcamp.com
Out today for PRE-RELEASE on #BandcampFriday:
The USA POLITICS Album
Songs of American political shenanigans from the pre-Trump era
mitchbenn.bandcamp.com/album/the-pr...
Out today for PRE-RELEASE on #BandcampFriday:
The WAR Album
15 hilarious songs of death and conflict
mitchbenn.bandcamp.com/album/the-wa...
Also out today on #BandcampFriday:
The SCANDAL ALBUM:
A collection of songs about people getting caught doing things they weren’t supposed to…
mitchbenn.bandcamp.com/album/scanda...
It’s #BANDCAMPFRIDAY!!
When BANDCAMP waives its usual cut and the artist gets 100% of your payment.
Out today on Bandcamp: The POWER OF THE MEDIA Album
13 satirical songs about how the media (ab)uses its influence…
mitchbenn.bandcamp.com/album/the-po...
The picture I did for Mitch Benn's The Lehrer Effect show is up for a Poster Award. Feel free to click the vote button for it :)
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Oh and glory be, they cast ACTUAL FUCKING SCOUSERS as three of the Beatles…
30.07.2025 08:55 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Luckily where the Beatles are concerned, some of their early covers became the definitive version and are thought of as “Beatles songs” even if they’re not (Twist And Shout, Money, Mr Postman etc) so Backbeat FEELS like it’s giving you proper Beatles stuff even if it (legally) isn’t.
30.07.2025 08:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0… (and you probably DO), then everyone with any ownership of those songs - publishers, surviving band members, widows etc - has to sign off on their use and will want script approval.
This is why Bohemian Rhapsody was so agonisingly obviously the Brian & Roger Approved Version Of Events…
There’s a very specific reason Backbeat works where rock biopics (and specifically Beatles biopics) fail; it’s about the Beatles when they were primarily a covers band, so it doesn’t use any Lennon & McCartney songs…
If you’re making a movie about a rock star/band, and you want to use their songs…
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Trans folks ain't done shit to you
I’ve always acknowledged the incalculable creative debt I owe to Tom Lehrer; the Edinburgh show will need a few minor tweaks but otherwise we’re pressing on. I’m sad it’ll now be a eulogy rather than living tribute but it’ll be all the more heartfelt now he’s gone.
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TONIGHT 8pm
26.07.2025 15:42 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0OUT ON BANDCAMP NOW
Ahead of The Lehrer Effect’s arrival in Edinburgh next week, here’s a compilation of audio recordings of my last FIVE Edinburgh shows; £4 each or all five for £12
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OUT ON BANDCAMP NOW
Ahead of The Lehrer Effect’s arrival in Edinburgh next week, here’s a compilation of audio recordings of my last FIVE Edinburgh shows; £4 each or all five for £12
mitchbenn.bandcamp.com/album/mitch-...
Released this four days before we heard that Ozzy was gone; by (extremely minor) coincidence there are two Ozzy “tributes” on it: Ozzy At The Palace from 2002 and Ozzy Gets Burgled from 2004 (both re-recorded for this album)
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Let’s face it, that was 40 years more than anyone ever thought he was getting and he was still giving it 100% Ozzy until the literal last possible minute. Rock In Peace, you mad old bastard 🤘
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22.07.2025 17:46 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Just noticed I’ve sold my first ever tickets in Australia. This is making me weirdly happy 😊
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