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lookfar
17-11-2007, 02:28 PM
I thought it'd be good to have a thread dedicated to Mark Thomas. For those that haven't heard his stuff, he's done some brilliant work & I highly recommend checking him out.
OMG this one on "My Life in Serious Organised Crime" has had me in fits of laughter, he's well on form here.... Enjoy!!!:D
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nRGZr2m4r7M
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vEProPFvNx8
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz4z-XvUGqA
lookfar
17-11-2007, 02:35 PM
Dondaz, this one's for you honey!!!:D
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6629279417928605463
lookfar
17-11-2007, 02:38 PM
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7A_B9lB8w5k
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pOoZH74tspw
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqRSIvWlunU
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hHlKTaPm-WM
lenejento
17-11-2007, 02:42 PM
Lol, thanks Lookfar! This was funny :D I've been missing a good comedian.
lookfar
17-11-2007, 03:10 PM
Lol, thanks Lookfar! This was funny :D I've been missing a good comedian.
Glad you're enjoying them lenejento :D More to come...
lookfar
17-11-2007, 03:14 PM
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AdBT6tGsGLY
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_mNM8XaZV78
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kqX4GT5VqRg
lookfar
17-11-2007, 03:17 PM
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6ccNcbgMGuk
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Pti70494mBQ
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=50Sl2XLvr5E
beetzart
17-11-2007, 03:18 PM
I really enjoyed that. Just goes to show how stupid this government really is!
lookfar
17-11-2007, 03:22 PM
Hehe, more great ones here!!!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UE8Q8ZHD6rg
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=6357175872816354171
lookfar
17-11-2007, 03:40 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJC5xvYnQI4
lookfar
17-11-2007, 03:44 PM
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RXrgLYJLwDM
Mark Thomas speaking at the protest against the DSEi arms fair in London's Docklands, September 11th 2007.
After speaking he was stopped and searched for looking "overconfident". See http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfr...,,2167909,00.html
More info:
http://www.caat.org.uk/
http://www.dsei.org/
lookfar
17-11-2007, 04:01 PM
I really enjoyed that. Just goes to show how stupid this government really is!
Hi beetzart
Hehe, yeah he's spot on isn't he!! Glad you enjoyed it :D
Man, I've only watched the first 2posts and I'm crying.
That surveillance is the funniest 5mins I've seen I reckon.
Just too ridiculous.
Thanks for this thread lookfar:D
dondaz
17-11-2007, 07:19 PM
Dondaz, this one's for you honey!!!:D
That was really funny, he had them by the er...nuts:eek:
Great vids here. Gonna watch one every morning with my breakfast, a great way to start the day.
Thanks Lookfar:)
strider
17-11-2007, 07:44 PM
Nice one lookfar, I'm really enjoying this :D
malvern
17-11-2007, 08:02 PM
I do love his work and way in which he wakes people up...... the story can be funny ... life is... the way Mark applies his tool is great.... love the copper one ...thanks
freedom is our grandchildren,,,we are the caretakers:)
lookfar
21-11-2007, 01:21 AM
Good to see you guys have been enjoying this too, Mark Thomas is great imo!
Just came across this short (rather old, 1998) one with him calling the House of Lords, lol...:D
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=obgHLzykEdU
lookfar
27-11-2007, 12:28 AM
Mark Thomas & David Shayler.....
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6805889585680594646
lookfar
27-11-2007, 12:48 AM
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-5258102674671757211
lookfar
27-11-2007, 01:13 AM
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8248873644033860258
lottie
27-11-2007, 04:11 PM
Mark Thomas & David Shayler.....
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6805889585680594646
I watched this one last night- it was great- thansk for postin lookybaby!!!;):D
thansk....russian for thanks???!!!! LMAO!!!
lookfar
12-04-2008, 09:43 PM
Just found a couple of audios of Mark Thomas:
http://www.markthomasinfo.com/audio/mp3s/The%20Penis%20of%20Peace%2011.7.06.mp3
http://www.markthomasinfo.com/audio/mp3s/Claire%20Short%2011.7.06.mp3
lookfar
04-08-2008, 12:31 AM
Just thought I'd bump this one with his wiki page, lol:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Thomas
lookfar
18-02-2009, 11:31 PM
Thought I'd resurrect this thread as I'm going to see him on Friday in Winchester & can't wait!:D
If any of you haven't seen his stuff before, I highly recommend it....:) Also check out his website for lots more:
http://www.markthomasinfo.com/
lottie
20-02-2009, 04:37 PM
jealous!!! :(
lottie
20-02-2009, 04:39 PM
ps;
Dom Joly;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SQT9vzyuck&feature=related
:D;) hot or what? lol
lookfar
20-02-2009, 06:35 PM
ps;
Dom Joly;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SQT9vzyuck&feature=related
:D;) hot or what? lol
Oh I've not heard of him before, thanks for sharing honey, interesting vid:)
Nah don't think he's "hot" though, lol:p;)
I opened this thread at about 6 o'clock this afternoon and after watching the first couple of vids i searched on youtube and google video and have now just sat through over 2 hours of Mark Thomas! lol
Fantastic guy and fantastic thread http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m131/LAD_VXL/thumbs.gif
This one had me gripped!
Mark Thomas - Secret Map Of Britain (2002)
http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=mark+thomas+&hl=en&emb=0&aq=-1&oq=#
lookfar
21-02-2009, 01:28 AM
I opened this thread at about 6 o'clock this afternoon and after watching the first couple of vids i searched on youtube and google video and have now just sat through over 2 hours of Mark Thomas! lol
Fantastic guy and fantastic thread http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m131/LAD_VXL/thumbs.gif
This one had me gripped!
Mark Thomas - Secret Map Of Britain (2002)
http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=mark+thomas+&hl=en&emb=0&aq=-1&oq=#
Ah nice one lozz, glad you're enjoying his stuff, he's great isn't he:D
We've just got back from the gig, it was absolutely bloody brilliant, he was on top form!!:D Had such a laugh & met some lovely people:) Will post a bit more about it tomorrow when I'm not so knackered...
moondancer
21-02-2009, 03:10 AM
Ah nice one lozz, glad you're enjoying his stuff, he's great isn't he:D
We've just got back from the gig, it was absolutely bloody brilliant, he was on top form!!:D Had such a laugh & met some lovely people:) Will post a bit more about it tomorrow when I'm not so knackered...
Was a fab night :D not laughed so much since.. well, last friday night :p Thanks again sweetheart x
lottie
23-02-2009, 02:11 AM
Still jealous!! lol!! :p
Lookie told me all about it! Sounds very syncronistic and engaging!! (he even knows I went bankrupt lol- mark thomas knows i went bankrupt!!! lmao!! :D:rolleyes:)
Glad you enjoyed it- im gonna try make the April one! :)
clozaril
27-02-2009, 04:49 PM
http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53280
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2009/02/09/CIFcard.pdf
an article here i posted not so long ago by mark thomas including a script if you ever stop and searched by the police
lookfar
27-02-2009, 11:13 PM
http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53280
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2009/02/09/CIFcard.pdf
an article here i posted not so long ago by mark thomas including a script if you ever stop and searched by the police
Cool stuff clozaril, thanks for sharing:)
fnulnu
27-02-2009, 11:19 PM
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7A_B9lB8w5k
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pOoZH74tspw
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqRSIvWlunU
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hHlKTaPm-WM
Replied cos the thumbnails have vanished and people not familiar with the forum bug might not realise they're there.
lookfar
27-02-2009, 11:24 PM
Replied cos the thumbnails have vanished and people not familiar with the forum bug might not realise they're there.
Ah thanks for that honey:) There's a bit of a glitch in the system at the mo.
fnulnu
28-02-2009, 12:46 AM
Ah thanks for that honey:) There's a bit of a glitch in the system at the mo.
I noticed after that all the thumbnails to the videos you posted in this thread are busted.Didn't want to spam by replying over and over lol.
I hope the forum package coders release a bug fix soon,cos otherwise people will miss a lot of gems :)
fnulnu
28-02-2009, 12:47 AM
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6ccNcbgMGuk
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Pti70494mBQ
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=50Sl2XLvr5E
Am watching these now thank you.
steevo
28-03-2009, 11:17 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7893023.stm
lookfar
29-03-2009, 12:18 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7893023.stm
Ah nice syncro there steevo - Lotts & I are just watching some old Mark Thomas TV dvds that I got sent from the very kind man who runs his website:D I'll get them posted in this thread soon.
Thanks for sharing the link, I'll go take a look in a mo....:)
steevo
29-03-2009, 12:25 AM
Ah nice syncro there steevo - Lotts & I are just watching some old Mark Thomas TV dvds that I got sent from the very kind man who runs his website:D I'll get them posted in this thread soon.
Thanks for sharing the link, I'll go take a look in a mo....:)
Great stuff! :)
thirdwave
01-04-2009, 06:35 PM
I thought it'd be good to have a thread dedicated to Mark Thomas. For those that haven't heard his stuff, he's done some brilliant work & I highly recommend checking him out.
OMG this one on "My Life in Serious Organised Crime" has had me in fits of laughter, he's well on form here.... Enjoy!!!:D
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nRGZr2m4r7M
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vEProPFvNx8
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz4z-XvUGqA
will have a look tonight...
lookfar
01-04-2009, 06:38 PM
will have a look tonight...
Cool, I'm sure you'll enjoy em:)
He's gigging quite a bit atm too, which I can highly recommend if there's one near you - moondancer & I had a great night at a recent one!
thirdwave
03-04-2009, 01:55 AM
Cool, I'm sure you'll enjoy em:)
He's gigging quite a bit atm too, which I can highly recommend if there's one near you - moondancer & I had a great night at a recent one!
Yeah I am due one of these things I always like the vibe at these places..
lookfar
03-04-2009, 08:56 AM
Yeah I am due one of these things I always like the vibe at these places..
Excellent stuff, you'll really enjoy it he was well funny, we had such a laugh!!:D
thirdwave
03-04-2009, 06:57 PM
allways cool when comedians get into this stuff as it healthy to laugh as it.
lookfar
04-04-2009, 06:01 AM
allways cool when comedians get into this stuff as it healthy to laugh as it.
Yeah it certainly is:D
Here's a list of his forthcoming gigs if you haven't seen it already, they are all over so gotta be one near you...:)
http://www.markthomasinfo.com/section_gigs/
cookiejar
07-04-2009, 11:46 AM
I thought it'd be good to have a thread dedicated to Mark Thomas. For those that haven't heard his stuff, he's done some brilliant work & I highly recommend checking him out.
OMG this one on "My Life in Serious Organised Crime" has had me in fits of laughter, he's well on form here.... Enjoy!!!:D
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nRGZr2m4r7M
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vEProPFvNx8
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz4z-XvUGqA
The vids wont come up?
lookfar
07-04-2009, 12:42 PM
The vids wont come up?
Oh no, that's not good:( I can't check from here as I'm at work & can't access youtube. Can you find them by searching directly from there instead?
cookiejar
08-04-2009, 12:59 PM
Oh no, that's not good:( I can't check from here as I'm at work & can't access youtube. Can you find them by searching directly from there instead?
Thanks is was just me grapics card running slow.
Very funny, any one seen any thing mark does on number stations?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lC4JRXsWkk
lookfar
08-04-2009, 01:02 PM
Thanks is was just me grapics card running slow.
Very funny, any one seen any thing mark does on number stations?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lC4JRXsWkk
That's ok then, I was worried for a sec that they'd been pulled from youtube (like so many things have lately).
Not sure if I've seen that one or not, so will have a look later.... Thanks for sharing:)
lookfar
04-09-2009, 02:16 PM
Going to see Mark again next Tuesday, I didn't realise his tours were still going on, but he has quite a few to go. I highly recommend attending one if you're in the area, it's a really good night out!:D
Gig Listings:
http://www.markthomasinfo.com/section%5Fgigs/
Here's also a rundown of what he's been upto in the last 10 years:
1998 - Series 2 of the Mark Thomas Comedy Product (7 programmes). Medical cannabis users bum rush Jack Straw's constituency surgery. The series proves that radioactive seagull shit is at large in Sellafield (the clean up costs come to around £1m). Organises a mass paging of Labour MP’s during the party conference instructing MPs to call "encore" at the end of Jack Straw’s law and order speech. They do. Gets viewers asking to see Sir Nicolas Soames (ex Tory Armed Forces minister) furniture that they are entitled to under the conditionally exempt works of art tax scheme. So many people apply Soames ends up paying the tax on his furniture.
Channel 4 Dispatches - "The Lie of the Land". Investigates the con of the wealthy avoiding inheritance tax by making their art, furniture, homes and land available for public viewing- except they hide the information so no one knows about it. Gordon Brown changes the law in the following budget. The Rothschilds end up paying about a million in tax rather than let the hoi polloi in.
Third series of "Booked" for Radio 4 (leaves after this one).
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1999 - January saw Series 3 of the Mark Thomas Comedy Product (8 programmes), includes a front PR team at an arms fair in Greece and getting testimony on the use of torture and UK equipment in East Timor. Assists British Nuclear Fuels Ltd by providing a citizens militia to guard they cargos of nuclear waste from Dungeness to Sellafield. Flying a hot air balloon over US spy base in Yorkshire, Menwith Hill.
The series receives a special commendation from Amnesty International at their media awards ceremony.
September saw Series 4 of the Mark Thomas Comedy Product (5 programmes). Mark tries to break sanctions by exporting a teddy bear to Iraq, accosts a civil servant in the gents and checks out the health and safety record of Aldermaston.
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2000 - January sees the second half of series 4 of the Mark Thomas Comedy Product (6 programmes). More fun with Nestle who change their labeling for baby milk in certain African countries, MT tries to hand over a troupe of French acrobats to MI5 for breaking the official secrets act and ends up on the front page of the Guardian.
One off programme on the Immigration and Asylum bill for the Channel 4 Kosovo season.
Radio 4 - "Celluloid Psychiatrists" - a four part series where Mark interviews the medical profession about the portrayal of themselves and mental illness throughout film.
Changes name of show - "Mark Thomas Product", does another series. Nestle end up changing the labeling on their baby products in some African states, ambushes a top civil servant in a toilet.
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2001 - Series 5 Mark Thomas Product (six programmes) at the start of the year. Discloses the then Environment Minister Michael Meacher’s addiction to property (12 homes and rising), finds out that the Minister for Trade Richard Caborn has asked for civil servants to “dig for dirt on Thomas so he can rubbish him.” Finds corruption in Export Credit Guarantee Department project and makes programme using CCTV footage claimed under the data protection act.
Fact finding visit to Algerian refugee camps, West Saharawis trying to get their country back from Morocco. Britain had recently reequipped Morocco with Howitzer cannons.
Fact finding trips to Turkey and the Kurdish regions.
Presents "Left Bank of the Mind" - Radio 4 series on Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl and Tom Lehrer.
Tours UK with a two hour show called "Dambusters" the story of the Ilisu Dam- show sells out much to the distress of Balfour Beatty and the UK government. Towards the end of the tour the deal for the dam collapses with UK and Italian firms pulling out of the deal.
Laughing Stock CD of the tour - DAMBUSTERS.
Starts writing bi-monthly column for the New Statesman magazine.
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2002 - Mark presented with the Kurdish National Congress Medal of Honour and a Human Rights Award from the Kurdish Human Rights Project.
Series 6 Mark Thomas Product (six programmes) including a programme on drug dumping, how to become an arms dealer in 8 days and building an enormous ice dam in the corporate headquarters of a company set to build a new dam in Turkey- company later pull out of the deal. Mark calls it a day with the Product, quietly kills it and leaves after 45 programmes.
Channel 4 documentary - "Secret Map of Britain".
American embassy threaten vengeance on Mark and the Editor of the New Statesman Peter Wilby, after Mark publicly puts a bounty on President Bush of £4,320. The story makes the Today programme. The following week in an act of contrition and admission of wrong doing Mark and Peter increased the bounty to 5 grand.
Is part of the CND team attempting to take the UK government to court over "resolution 1441" and going to war. Lose but were right.
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2003 - "Mark Thomas - Weapons Inspector" for Dispatches Channel 4 - makes a nerve wracked visit to the US to investigate their biological and chemical weapons programme and back home tries to make a nuclear inspection at the UK’s nuclear submarine base at Faslane using a peddlo and armed with a lawyer in a wet suit and a copy of the Geneva Convention.
"Mark Thomas - Debt Collector" for Dispatches Channel 4 - a programme on the creation and profit to be made from Iraq's world debt.
Tours UK on the forth coming invasion of Iraq detailing the attempts to get UK government into the dock and the birth of "Los Confetti-istas!".
Banned for life from all Mean Fiddler events and venues for a surprise confetti attack during the Reading Festival.
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2004 - Mark is acquitted of criminal damage after he and some friends "locked on" to a bus full of arms dealers.
Addresses the Barnsley Miners Gala on the 20th anniversary of the strike.
Fact finding trips on the trail of Coca Cola to India and Colombia.
Co-curates an art exhibition called Coca Cola Nazi Adverts, this is a collective and growing work that encourages people from across the world to photo shop, draw, print or sculpt on the theme of conflicts with the multinational company.
The exhibition exhibits in the Nancy Victor Gallery in the west end of London, Gallery, the Foundry, Colombia and Ecuador.
Performs a residency at the Tricycle Theatre London and tours the UK with a show about Coca Cola.
Awarded with a United Nations International Services Association Global Human Rights Defender Award.
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2005 - Tours UK with Robert Newman.
Newsnight refuse to broadcast an investigation by MT on the Hinduja Group and military supplies to Sudan, after Hinduja Group threatens court action.
Radio 4 series "Mark Thomas Presents" introducing live sets recorded in the UK from Stan Freidberg, the Firesign Theatre, Shelley Berman and Mort Sahl.
Awarded a MISTY, a media activists award from the radical film making NGO Undercurrents.
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2006 - Coca Cola Nazi Adverts exhibits in Venezuela.
"After School Arms Club" - Dispatches Channel 4. documentary on arms brokerage laws where 2 schools form arms companies to show loopholes in UK and European arms control laws. Irish government pledge to introduce brokerage laws by the end of the years.
Gives oral evidence to the Quadripartite Select Committee (who have oversight on arms control) on torture equipment and embargoed destinations (the Hinduja Group and Sudan).
Radio 4's Comic Links interviewed by Barry Cryer, in turn Mark interviews Alexei Sayle.
June 06 Publishes First Book, "As Used On The Famous Nelson Mandela", an investigation into the International Arms Trade.
Begins series of demonstrations around Parliament Square protesting against the SOCPA (Serious Organised Crime and Police Act) legislation and the Anti Terror Laws. Protests include demonstrations "in defence of surrealism" and "to reduce police paperwork".
Title of World Record Holder conferred on Mark by The Guinness Book of Records. This is for the "most number of political demonstrations in 24 hours".
Tours the UK on a 60 date tour with a brand new stand up show.
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2007 - Channel 4 commissioned a brand new Despatches programme with Mark on the subject of Coca Cola.
Channel 4 Mark Thomas on Coca Cola Dispatches broadcast in November.
Forms "McDemos" the protest company.
Serious Organised Criminal for Radio 4.
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2008 - Mark Win's a Sony Award for his radio show" Serious Organised Criminal" on Radio 4.
Second book, "Belching Out The Devil" published - an expose of the Coca Cola Company.
Awarded the Emerald Eagle Award for fair and unbiased reporting.
Completes the London to Brighton Bike Ride.
Made an honorary doctor by Bradford University for services to peace and his contribution as a comedian, political activist, presenter and investigative journalist, in particular in recognition of his effective campaigning on the ethics of the arms trade.