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Mark Thomas is an author, comedian and activist who still just about has a regular column in the New Statesman magazine.
He was born in South London in 1963 and educated at a local primary school before winning a scholarship to Christ's Hospital public school. He went on to take a degree in Theatre Arts at Bretton Hall which he did while doing shows in miner's soup kitchens during the strike. He began his stand up work at the White Lion 1985, going on to become a regular compere at the Comedy Store, founding the weekly Cutting Edge topical show and winning a Time Out award for his "distinctive contribution to the art of comedy". Since then he's worked on stage, TV and radio, with many shows including the Mark Thomas Comedy Product and a famous episode of Channel 4 Dispatches - "The Lie of the Land" where he investigated the way the wealthy avoid inheritance tax, prompting Gordon Brown to change the law in the following budget.
Among many honours, he has been presented with the Kurdish National Congress Medal of Honour, a United Nations International Services Association Global Human Rights Defender Award, a Sony Award for his radio show" Serious Organised Criminal" on Radio 4 and one from The Guinness Book of Records for the "most number of political demonstrations in 24 hours."
He has also been banned for life from all Mean Fiddler events and venues and acquitted of criminal damage after he and some friends "locked on" to a bus full of arms dealers. His most recent book, "Belching Out The Devil", an expose of the Coca Cola Company, was awarded the Emerald Eagle Award for fair and unbiased reporting.
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