Circus Marketing Team

[@Ater_Draco]

Currently watching this in my car, across from the closed down furniture shop. Only 5 circus posters on their window, from 2018. Must have been the extreme budget PR package

[@RichWoods23]

Or a five-year deal and the circus will be back in town next March, just before the weather improves.

[@colonelweird]

Yes, it was only 7,000 pounds for those posters. Inflation has gone mad since then!

[@jamiewalkerdine3705]

actualyl that's a lot more expensive than 12 posters.

[@Grim_Beard]

_Hold on a second, there is something else._ A Facebook campaign through local schools and parents' groups? _No, don't be daft. I want a cardboard sign next to a busy road junction, that you can almost, but not quite, read without causing an accident._

[@Tao_Tology]

If folk aren't prepared to possibly cause a minor traffic incident just to check the date and time, they're not a circus audience.

[@jezwilde2376]

Get into that slapstick groove

[@Trazynn]

_Maybe some flyers at the reception of the local bed & breakfast, underneath a stack of similar unrelated flyers as well._

[@jakekraweckyj2801]

TWENTY IS PLEnt

[@oscarlamont9403]

SO TRUE!!!

[@shinywarm6906]

I'd just like to say that if he's chosen my Creative Team, he'd also have got 400 leaflets, all piled onto the little table in the corner of the Chinese takeaway that opens on alternate Tuesdays, afternoons only

[@oootoob]

Don't forget the posters stuck on a bit of bent hardboard zip-tied to road signs

[@MrJaspett]

Oh you want the advanced package? Great. While we're thinking big for another 5 grand we'll put some on some flimsy stakes hammered into local roundabouts. We call that the deluxe package.

[@PetersonZF]

That's how you advertise garden furniture sales.

[@Koettnylle]

Easy there big shot

[@scalyscallion]

This feels like an IELTS listening test somehow

[@annainspain5176]

You're not wrong!😂

[@MrBigsmiffy]

As someone who lives near Great Yarmouth, the home of the Hippodrome (one of only two purpose-built permanent circuses in England still in operation), I can vouch for the 100% accuracy of this sketch 😂

[@sparkymark68]

Do you know the best way to kill a circus? Go for the juggler.

[@pynn1000]

Groan joke! Pinching it for my collection.

[@sparkymark68]

@@pynn1000 You're welcome to it because I stole it as well!

[@stephanosuk78]

Here all week?

[@sparkymark68]

@@stephanosuk78 Don't forget to tip your waitress.

[@jmp01a24]

Too few fart noises all over. Else its gold!

[@rando9574]

"BECAUSE THATS HOW YOU ADVERTISE CIRCUSES" hahahahha so true 1:25

[@sandraholmes7002]

Empty carpet shops, empty banks, empty shops, the heart of our towns disappearing, moth eaten circus posters cling to the past.

[@nigelcarren]

I unfortunately live in France at the moment. Five years ago I was part of an arts-council funded exhibition designed to motivate an entire generation of school-leavers! The sort of kids who like myself, shall we say weren't academically inclined! This exhibition involved 11 other artists from all over France, who like me took a week off to do this and hired trucks out of our pockets to set up six satellite exhibitions. This was a total failure,! Jjust my parents bringing me a flask of tea doubled the number of visitors on the Saturday. The following week I was at a meeting with the mayor and most of the other artists who were equally furious to ascertain why this event was a failure. After about an hour the Mayor said "I don't understand why nobody came, as we had stapled the posters to the telegraph poles!" 😶 Happy non-specific seasonal festival to you. I like your style... That's what your brilliant sketch reminded me of. 🏆 Best wishes from an Englishman making armour in a French forest. 🇬🇧⚒️

[@akamal92]

Telegraph poles? In this day and age?

[@majectic-berry]

"I unfortunately live in France" 😂

[@amine456-k8s]

TL;DR

[@mamaduck9370]

This video will make me giggle at inappropriate random moments for the rest of my life. Thank you!

[@thesunreport]

I have a similar problem. I was round at a friend's house a few years back. He was sitting on the floor on a thread-bare persian carpet, that was essentially the hard floor itself. He did a little fart that cracked like a bullwhip as his tender ring slapped the flat hard floor. His meek, resigned, but questioning 'ow' that went up at the end like an Australian surf dude was a sentiment I could really understand, as it must have stung a bit, the pain being quite unexpected though. Sometimes I remember this as I am walking through the busy town centre, perhaps it is my mind playing tricks on me, as I know it's an innapropriate place to laugh randomly when alone, but it still gets me after all these years. 😂

[@ppodism]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha as someone with a circus background this is absolute genius

[@Trazynn]

You got a circus in the background?

[@thehighestofclouds9890]

@@Trazynn he’s referring to his phone background

[@lepari9986]

I would have personally put 14 posters on the said place but hey, if the man doesn't want full house then what can I do.

[@Andrewjg_89]

That ending bit was just as brilliant. Incredible 🤣🤣

[@joshuacorden4295]

The Snooker referee back there. Perfectly normal.

[@Andrewjg_89]

@@joshuacorden4295 Yeah true 😂

[@grumpy9721]

no one could see that coming

[@Andrewjg_89]

😂

[@Demun1649]

Someone else scared/frightened of clowns. When I was young my dads company always had a Christmas party for the employees kids. Every years there was a "clown" called Mr Pastry, famous from the TV, he was frightening, scary, weird, and always thought it was funny to steal our take-hiome bag with sweets, oranges and manderines in it.

[@bond0815]

Judging from the title I thought this was about the tory conference.

[@carltonascarf7694]

Nice

[@Gedagnors]

This is so accurate! For any county!))))))

[@arianaajbeaverhausen8175]

Went past some circus posters in Edinburgh today and thought of this skit, had to come back and rewatch! 🎪❤😂

[@caciliemobius6531]

Watching this for the 7th time, this is clearly one of my favourites. I will come back again and again for this.

[@anniehosking2408]

I'm laughing so much. You are brilliant!

[@aryzhol408]

This is amazingly coincidental because I was staring at someone putting up poster on some grotty closed down bank and then go into a barbers. I was like "why"?

[@Mr3keestylee]

Who do you think delivers faded photos of dated styles & pictures of celebrities who've never been there?

[@RichWoods23]

Why? Because that bloke Bill Posters has to make a living somehow.

[@ohat3062]

@@RichWoods23 Shocking, Bill Posters shouldn't be allowed to walk the streets never mind work, they'll prosecute him one of these days mark my words.

[@merseyviking]

Because he wanted his hair cut?🤷‍♂

[@Google_Does_Evil_Now]

Probably for a haircut.

[@piccalillipit9211]

*WELL - HE'S NOT WRONG* that is how you advertise a circus...!

[@J-Hell]

Wow! I love that Circus owner. First time I've felt like one of the interacting Spicers was really a different person.

[@addie_is_me]

The way your mind works, man. You are a tiny bit nuts and a big comic genius, and in just the right proportions. I'd be so proud if i was your mother.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

What about the half a poster on a telegraph pole, for a circus in the next town over????

[@sphinxtheeminx]

We people of Portsmouth know exactly where this is coming from as we have to endure at least two circus events every year. Whether we want to, or not.

[@travelwell6049]

Oh how awful 😐

[@sphinxtheeminx]

@@travelwell6049 Clowns, clowns, clowns, cluttering up the aisles at Waitrose. O, the horror.

[@unfinished8132]

Just 2. You don’t know what you’re missing.

[@sphinxtheeminx]

@@unfinished8132 At least 2 - if we're lucky.

[@retrogiftsuk4812]

I'm in Portsmouth too. You're right it's always at least 2. I have no idea who goes. I don't think I have ever met anyone who has been. There must be people watching this who don't live near a circus circuit who have no idea what this video is about, and go "What, there are still circuses!!!"

[@SerMattzio]

Why is this so painfully accurate? I don't think I've ever seen a circus poster except in an empty shop or on a run-down wooden fence with patchy creosote. I'm not sure if it's just where these posters always are or if it sticks out particularly because a happy circus advertisement jars so much with a run-down environment.

[@KarrierBag]

Having run my own circus since 1992.... he knows exactly how empty carpet shops are the best advertising option, anywhere, ever.

[@vladraduandrei5227]

wow you ran it even before my birth

[@KarrierBag]

@@vladraduandrei5227 I feel so old now 😬 🤣🤣

[@doctordeej]

OMG. I so want to use this in a presentation on identifying the needs and requirements of a client!

[@jessicaellina3878]

Oops...Pennywise is on the loose...get those posters up pronto!!!

[@jackbeswick4662]

Might as well stick one around the lamp post outside the shop as well. Don't protect it in any way though. By tomorrow I want it to look all worn, scratched and unreadable so that the one person who sees it assumes that it's been there for months and that they've missed it.

[@Tao_Tology]

And the post needs to be narrow enough that the poster wraps round on itself, obscuring the date.

[@speedtimothy]

old-school marketing 'bish bash bosh' job done!

[@britishrose9417]

Brilliant! I wonder if anyone outside Britain gets it...

[@karosparrow]

And if we said "no", would you kindly explain?🤗🙏

[@1292liam]

France - Ive seen them on lamp posts

[@MartijnterHaar]

Same here in the Netherlands, although circuses seem to be a dying out.

[@weareallbornmad410]

Remember them from childhood. Both the circuses and the posters, that is.

[@pynn1000]

@@1292liam Yes, and for travelling funfairs, travelling menageries (thankfully gone now) and travelling shows like "Monster Truck".

[@ExploreTheUKWithMe]

His stuff is always so accurate man it's brilliant

[@bryanbytes]

This explains life in so many ways

[@sirbennyfresko8675]

Never fails . . . Fuggin brilliant

[@TahaJelani]

The Full Montenegro sounds like an indie film

[@JakeHGuy]

As someone who does video production and sits in on creative meetings, the was absolutely true and one of the funniest things I have seen.

[@frankowalker4662]

This explains a great deal. BTW, Congrats on the Mash work, Michael. :)

[@niemrobiniemrobi8397]

Michael your a comedy genius 😂🤣😂👏🏽👏🏽💯🙏🏾

[@m0L3ify]

1:18 That face just screams "I can't believe I got an MBA for this"

[@entropybentwhistle]

Thank you for sparing us any further creepy clown visuals. A man’s gotta be able to sleep before work, ya know!

[@USERNAMEfieldempty]

Make sure they're a bit wonky too!

[@juan-carlosfrancois8498]

The posters just don't do it anymore sir, we gotta move with the times 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@theylivewesleep.5139]

Fine. 14 posters.

[@alexlee2237]

Don't forget to put one of them up upside down. And make sure the whitewash covers half of the top row.

[@WDKimball]

To be fair, we have all seen the posters for circuses on empty shops, and thought “oh, good, the circus is back in town”. 🤓

[@Bombot78]

_Fact_

[@jmc3893]

Well just a point, he couldn't have made that sketch if he hadn't been aware of the 12 posters in the empty carpet shop window so it must be working somehow 😂

[@modemmama100]

These are always the best. But this is the bestest of the best😎

[@andynightingale7335]

Lol. These posters have literally just gone up round here. Brilliant stuff yet again. 😂

[@jamieashton3835]

That was bloody funny 🤣

[@goldencalf5144]

The circus dude is my spirit animal. Nuts to social media

[@Kingdomplains]

1:20 The angry 'And nothing else?' got me 😅

[@SallyMangos]

1979 clashes with 2022

[@TheMusingPage]

"Will we ever take them down?" "No."

[@fiv1168]

Oh Lord. That gloved hand is going to give me nightmares...

[@2lefThumbs]

Maybe expand the impact by dropping a couple in the laundrette window?🤔 Hilarious skit either way👍👍

[@lindsaypollock597]

Your finest work. The white gloved hand!

[@howardgunn754]

Haha i wondered where this was heading. Brilliant. Release the clowns!!

[@b5b6y]

Love when actors do this (cut to him clutching an audible empty bucket at the end)

[@p4cks]

absolutely nailed it. as usual.

[@varadin23]

Jesus Christ you are genuinely hilarious

[@SeymourClearly2]

One the funniest things you’ve done! Great way to end the day.

[@stevecavanagh8033]

Just confirming this is 100% applicable to Australia too. Must be an industry thing.

[@2thinkcritically]

Begun, the Clown War has.

[@bimalgarg95]

Masterpiece. This video is way underrated.

[@MrDavey2010]

Brilliant sketch!

[@meh3247]

Always an absolute joy to see someone from Marketing getting sh@t on. Of course, it being a circus, we all know that the cheque bounced higher than "Kwartengs Kash from Kaos" returns recently!!

[@MatthewBester]

I have to agree with boss man. The circus advertises itself.

[@palefire]

Genius

[@highdownmartin]

Two posters stuck to pieces of battered hardboard tied to railings next to an out of town roundabout. Never fails

[@thomasstrudwick94]

you need the flyers in the chippie too.

[@stevefor3v3r]

I just want 12 posters

[@br5380]

Agent - we need to reach out to our British viewers, what could you do? Michael - let me see what I can do...

[@Zebsy]

This video is so good we should market it somehow. Any ideas?

[@Marvhead]

Well, there's this empty carpet shop...... Oh, never mind.

[@martinross5521]

The format is way to go for the next General Election - Team Truss’em-up are bound to bite. All the thinking’s done 😂

[@USERNAMEfieldempty]

Iron Maiden have the same marketing policy.

[@alishacarr5160]

😂😂😂😂😂👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 if you dont get out there with 12 posters!!!!

[@carolinecrollick6305]

Brilliant I have just seen that too in old closed shops here

[@gertrudlehmann4869]

Fantastic!

[@TonyTheYouTuba]

Beautifully refreshing and (mostly) light hearted! Though I hope you don’t miss out on giving us the behind the scenes on todays Truss “press conference” too 😅

[@annainspain5176]

I deal with people like this, they don't hear what they don't want to hear. I must remember to threaten them with the clowns.😂

[@macfin4862]

This must be universal, same down here in Australia

[@hostandersson4301]

The clowns really did it. Very realistic marketing too (:

[@suzesiviter6083]

Circuses round here must be more evolved, they love lampposts as well.

[@garbski42]

Almost spilled my tea

[@fredred8298]

The closet door and the gloved hand is traumatic.

[@imaginitivity7853]

Thing is, I've seen those posters, and I'm off to the circus. If it ain't broke don't fix it!

[@jaexiusnem1267]

Don’t forget the 5 posters all on the same phone box.

[@wpl955g9]

Saw Zippo's Circus setting up shop in Finsbury Park yesterday and immediately thought of this.

[@rampanttwattery4844]

Revisiting this having recently had a Circus in town. It’s aged very, very well. HEY BBC, GIVE THIS MAN A TELEVISION SERIES YOU SHITS!

[@johngorny8306]

Be a bit daft me a guard, guarding a guard.

[@marcianoacuerda]

That goeegh at the end earned my sub 😅

[@julianmorrisco]

The full Montenegro. Love it.

[@theylivewesleep.5139]

Amazing.

[@andreashaynes3346]

FABULOUS 🤣🤣🤣

[@flynnpaterson2025]

The full Montenegro.

[@lucieirl]

I knew what the joke was but I still giggled

[@Radagast-]

It's funny cos it's true!

[@domytar5395]

love it.

[@johndray2326]

Oh, this is so much like talking to people about promoting their work. You give them a plan and either: 1) they don’t do it and then ask why your marketing doesn’t work 2) say that their mate down the pub has a better idea, so they won’t be doing it.

[@enthusedbacon2359]

Ha this is so true, the posters lool at least 15 years old and are often found in some random ass alleyway

[@Jowgenetsu]

As a former wrestler who paid many dues putting up posters for shows this is exactly like that but with added politics.