Dan Martin

From Caliban To The Taliban

Dan Martin

Rob Newman

Recorded live at the sold-out 2003 Paramount Comedy Festival in Brighton, stand-up comedian Robert Newman performs From Caliban To The Taliban - 500 Years of Humanitarian Intervention; a painstakingly researched tale of capitalist expansion and America’s global terror campaign waged “with goodwill to all.” Few stand-ups have attempted to create causal links between a 1609 Bermuda shipwreck and US adventures in Guatemala, via Shakespeare and Sir Francis Bacon. Hardly a laugh a minute you might think, but Newman has managed to pepper this unlikely comic dish with the endearing gags that made him famous.

Turn Your Bloody Phone Off

Johannes Roberts, Can Evrenol

A series of PSA's that are played in front of films at various festivals to remind patrons to switch off their phones during the films in a variety of gruesome and horrific ways.