What?! Mark Thomas <\/b>has been \u2018standing up\u2019 for 40 years? Impossible!! But how old does that make you\u2026? Alas it is true; one of our oldest surviving alternative comics celebrates 40 years at the mic.<\/p>\n
So, here\u2019s what he has done so far in numbers; performed comedy for 40 years, won 8 awards for performing, 4 for human rights work and 1 he invented for himself, made 6 series of the Mark Thomas Comedy Product (Channel 4), written 6 books and 5 play scripts, made 5 series of the Manifesto for Radio 4, made 3 Dispatches for Channel 4, sued the police (and won) 3 times, curated and authored 2 art exhibitions with artist Tracey Moberly and had 1 Guinness World Record for holding 20 protests in 24 hours.<\/p>\n
So basically expect a taster menu of government and personal mayhem, jokes, rants and a personal state of the nation broadcast as he tries to turn ‘what the f*ck is going on’ into a cogent hour of stand-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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