Mark Thomas

Photo of Mark Thomas comedy album, Gaffa Tapes, with vinyl peaking out of the sleeve in a seductive way. Album cover is black and white negative style shot of Mark at the mic.

And there it is...

There is something great about a vinyl comedy album. Just thinking of the concept of it and I can hear a cackling stylus plucking out Woody Allen saying, “I shoot a moose."

So I have my first comedy vinyl out.

You can order a copy here.

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Damn. Jimmy Cliff. oh man.

HOME Manchester this week for the play Ordinary Decent Criminal by Ed Edwards. Week after we have a couple of dates in York. Then the tour is done.

So last chance to see it.

The playscript is for sale on the website.

markthomasinfo.co.uk/store/

T Towel design in red and white. Reads “Please Mind the Farage” with a picture of a waste bin seeping farage (liquid waste) and beneath the image printed in red, “farage (noun) [fa-rij] The liquid found at the bottom of a waste bin or container"

It is that time of the year when we launch the T-Towel.

And here it is.

This beauty is now on the website’s store.

Enjoy!

markthomasinfo.co.uk/store/

Framed set of nunchuks and Bruce Lee picture above a framed Hong Kong newspaper article about Bruce Lee.

Framed set of original Bruce Lee film posters from Hong Kong in a line on cafe wall.

Where to grab lunch before today’s matinee?

Hong Kong cafe?

They had me at the nunchuks.

Theatre space, photo taken from onstage looking out at empty seats, crew sorting chairs.

Getting ready for the first gig at the Dukes in Lancaster!

Why do we do it?

Glamour.

I’m sick of people mansplaining how to be chancellor, says Rachel Reeves The chancellor also admitted the government has ‘made a couple of unforced errors’ but insisted it is ‘fighting to win’

I'm sick of people cuntsplaining how to be disabled with zero income, frankly, Rachel.

BUT HERE WE ARE.

So am i

Definitely 1985. Kew with Kev now that could have been anywhere between 85-91!

I love him and his work x

Cartoon by the wonderful Martin Rowson of Mark Thomas, in carpet slippers and a knackered jumper onstage hunched over a microphone stand saying, ‘Look I’ve been doing stand up now for 40 years… so can someone please fetch me a fucking chair?!!’

40 years ago was my first stand up gig and I got given this by way of celebration! Thanks to @martinrowson.bsky.social
@tinehs.bsky.social
@imranyusufcomedy.bsky.social

Yeah it is but better to get it right.

I would have a go on The World Turned Upside Down by Christopher Hill, not an easy read but a fantastic one. He covers the radical grassroots movements and thinkers of the English Civil War. OR EP Thompson The Making of the English Working Class.

The day after it was reported everywhere that the Brize Norton action did damage that cost **at least £30 million**
Within weeks it was revised down to circa £7m.
Now .... they say they don't even know the cost.
#DeproscribePalAction #ShutElbitDown #StopArmingIsrael

Bar Shu if you are feeling flush

Or Tokyo Dinner on Newport Place

barshurestaurant.co.uk

Location:Tooting.

Weather status: It’s SNOWING...SNOWING…Oh hang on…it’s sleet…No wait… it’s SNOW...SNOW… Nah that’s just rain... Biggish lumps of rain... could be…nah fuck it.

Morning. Don’t know if this counts as promotion or just me
Mouthing off? Possibly both. Anyway Ordinary Decent Criminal is on your for three more weeks.

Weyhey! Go on Scotland!

From what I understand (and this is not gospel) publicity error and not enough sales. So starting again and will try to get it right this time.

I remember that night.

Mulatu Astatke onstage behind vibes, against a vivid red.

Wow. Mulatu Astatke was a totally beautiful gig. I mean beyond great.

Interior of the HERE venue London, crowd gather in front o stage, silhouette of piano, drums and vibes.

Here we go, the stage is set for Mulatu Astatke live!

I mean you should see this show, it is purring like a Le Mans racer at the moment.

Well someone on the committee had exactly your reaction and heckled basically your words.

For the record the person who challenged him was Dianne Abbott MP.

I attended the committee hearing.

Taking asylum seekers jewellery is a hardy Labour trope.

In 1999 Mike O’Brien MP immigration minister proposed legislation to take asylum seekers valuables worth over £2,000.

Asked if that meant taking asylum seekers jewellery in committee he said, ‘that is exactly what we will do’

Just because Labour Government have engaged in factional in fighting does not make them left wing.

Which is truly amazing