Calling All Anti-War Comedy Lovers,

You lucky people, you Lucky, LUCKY PEOPLE! Here's your chance to
laugh your socks off with one of the UK's greatest ever political
humorists, AND support the anti-war activities of some of the
UK's most skilful and effective direct action radicals.
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Robert Newman

`From Caliban To The Taliban — 500 years of humanitarian
intervention'

A Political Comedy Show — and Benefit for the Disobedience Network

The most well-informed, intelligent and — above all else —
laugh-out-loud funny political comic (IMHO) will be helping to raise
funds for some of the most imaginative, bold and implacably anti-war
direct action protesters in a miss-it-and-you'll-regret-it great
night out!

Mon 11 Nov 02 at 20:00
Soho Theatre, Dean Street, Soho, London W1
Box Office: 020 7478 0100
£10 waged, £5 concessions

Robert Newman: www.robertnewmancorp.fsnet.co.uk
Soho Theatre: www.soho-theatre.com
Disobedience Network: www.disobedience.org.uk

Here's a sample of Robert Newman's writing on political
comedy:
"One of the major obstacles to doing a political comedy show [is] the
information problem. If, for example, you happen to have a hilarious
yet rousingly defiant routine on the recent Bolivian water-riots, you
first have to:
a) convince people that they've happened.
b) tell them what happened.
And in doing this you run the risk of clogging up your act, over-
loading it with stodgy chunks of background data. But the flipside of
this is that there is sometimes an agreeable expectation if audiences
can't quite see where the next gag's gonna come from. A tension I
have been known to let build for up to an hour! (At many gigs, local
direct action groups come and set up info-stalls - so people can get
involved or at least informed.)
Ironically, one of the reasons the public don't have the facts is
down to what Jeremy Hardy describes as "the tyranny of humour". Every
news and current affairs show has its gonky comedy bit. I like to
think that my stand-up shows are one the few places people can escape
this incessant humour, the wall-to-wall comedy of our chuckle-
culture."

From Ah Speet On Your Manifesto!, The Guardian, August 2000,
available in full at: www.robertnewmancorp.fsnet.co.uk/guardian.html

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If you are an unfeasibly long way away from London, then I guess this
is for your information only – and if you get the chance to catch
Robert Newman on tour, make sure you seize that opportunity.

I look forward to seeing a great many of you at the Soho Theatre on
Mon evening.

Peace & Love,

Tim Jones
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tdj_political@... www.internationalism.plus.com
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"I could go on for hours and I probably will, but I'd sooner put some
joy back in to this town called malice." Paul Weller
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