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November 7, 2007 4:56 AM

We are all outraged, but who has the time to demonstrate their outrage - Introducing McDemos. Think that there should be less Simply Red on the radio, or that there should be shorter bars for midgets? Get Mark Thomas, Tracey moberly and Tony Pletts to demonstrate on your behalf.

Apologies if this has been posted already and I missed it. Just heard Mark Thomas talk about it on radio 6 this morning.

posted by twistedonion (11 comments total)

Oops, the link for Mark Thomas should be http://www.markthomasinfo.com
posted by twistedonion at 4:57 AM on November 7, 2007

NOT OUTRAGIST
posted by quonsar at 6:05 AM on November 7, 2007

Uh, can we get a NSFW tag on the Tracey Moberly link?
There was a butt. A pale, naked butt.

Still, I'm entertained. I mean, outraged. PICKET McDEMOS!
posted by bassjump at 6:31 AM on November 7, 2007

#12 -- "Waste of Time Demo. Sam is poop smelly. Tracey is Scottish!"

Right at 'ya!
posted by ericb at 6:40 AM on November 7, 2007

Having never heard of Mark Thomas before, I found the following to be helpful (from his website):

"Comedy that really makes a difference! This is Mark's true story of cake icing as a political weapon, of demonstrations to Defend Surrealism and getting to like the police. Mark turns an 18 month battle over Parliament Square and the right to demonstrate into bizarrely brilliant stand up. This is how Mark fought the law ... with the law's permission! It is a laugh out loud funny world inhabited by anarchists, Goths, artists and a chap called PC Paul McInally, in which Mark becomes a Guinness World Record holder, organises 2,500 protests in one day and changes the law in the process."

posted by ericb at 6:44 AM on November 7, 2007

Wouldn't you rather hire these guys?
posted by digiFramph at 6:46 AM on November 7, 2007

Didn't they formerly trade as rent-a-mob? That's what we would get accused of being back in the day - 30 quid and a packed lunch direct from the Kremlin!
posted by Abiezer at 6:58 AM on November 7, 2007

And I'll send all the money you ask for,
Just don't ask me to come on along.
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal.
posted by RogerB at 7:00 AM on November 7, 2007

Just one more step to Douglas Adams' electric monk.
posted by papercake at 10:40 AM on November 7, 2007

Mark is outstanding. The paragraph above doesn't capture it. Check out the Mark Thomas Comedy Product until youtube takes it down.
posted by imperium at 3:02 PM on November 7, 2007

Fuck those McDemo's. You need a McDermo.

MefiMail me for rates.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 5:37 PM on November 7, 2007