Well damn and blast it The Daily Show has blocked Irish viewers (and I assume everyone else) from watching full episodes on their website. I don’t have a television so the site was the only place I could watch it. I’ve been kicked out of the Colbert Nation too.
That’s not funny.
Charlie and I went along to see Mark Thomas in the Radisson Hotel last night as part of the Galway Arts Festival. Charlie is reviewing the show for the Connacht Tribune and I did the above to go along with it.
There were some teething problems, and a lesser man would have skinned the sound and light operators alive for a) not turning the stage lighting on when he entered and even then having to be told to do it and b) the feedback and distortion on his mike in the first half. Thomas just made a joke of it, comparing them to the people in charge of our water supply! (although I’d trust a hill of ants to do a better job of our water situation than the officials of City Hall at this stage).
In my unbiased, objective, balanced and scientific opinion Mark Thomas is a genius. So there.
One of my favourite outraged sorts, Mark Thomas, is coming to Galway for the 30th Galway Arts Festival. I’m currently reading his book As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela, an actual quote used as a selling point in an arms dealer’s brochure.
I guarantee the funniest indignation you’ll see this year if you come along. You can see some of his television work on YouTube, but be warned it’s not safe for work (lots of cussin’!!).
The Festival box office is open now and you can book tickets online.
If you don’t get it you might not have seen this:
