the yes men

[Püke Fyst]

if you like the idea of a cleverer, political jackass, this is well worth checking out. it's a documentary about these guys who set up a pisstake WTO website then started to get e-mails from people who hadn't read the site properly inviting them to represent the WTO at conferences and in the media. it could've been a lot funnier if they'd just had maybe a bit of background about each stunt then the whole footage of the stunt, as there's a lot of it that's just them doing pretty mundane stuff, but it gives good insight into the time and effort that goes into pranks like these,which is especially usefull for those of us who might want to try pulling something like this off themeselves.

[Hecate]

Originally Posted by Püke Fyst

if you like the idea of a cleverer, political jackass, this is well worth checking out. it's a documentary about these guys who set up a pisstake WTO website then started to get e-mails from people who hadn't read the site properly inviting them to represent the WTO at conferences and in the media. it could've been a lot funnier if they'd just had maybe a bit of background about each stunt then the whole footage of the stunt, as there's a lot of it that's just them doing pretty mundane stuff, but it gives good insight into the time and effort that goes into pranks like these,which is especially usefull for those of us who might want to try pulling something like this off themeselves.

They also impersonated Bush campaigners and made their own campaign bus with a huge missile on the front. It's well worth watching the film. Also they have a website http://www.theyesmen.org/index.shtml
And this is their WTO satire site http://gatt.org/ifront.html
Compare with the real WTO site http://www.wto.org/

[Afro Joe]

really funny film. can't remember where i saw it, think it was the dca a while back. there were a couple of threads on this earlier this year but the words yes and men are too short to search for.