The Mark Thomas Comedy Product

We decided that for too long the business and employment record of Harrods and House of Fraser owner Mohammed Al Fayed had been held against him, and decided to set an example by queueing up at the Harrods sale in order to ask him for a job.

The Lord Mayor's show is the biggest procession in the world. In 1996 it boasted over 65 floats, 21 marching bands, 22 carriages, 200 horses, 5,000 people and the Lord Mayor's 240 year old gold State Coach. It is also a huge great moneyspinner for the City of London. To enter a float in the 1997 show cost £2,500+VAT, and is basically a chance to do some off-the-wall advertising and marketing. The event is broadcast round the world live on the BBC World Service channel, broadcast live on BBC1 and Capital Radio.

The programme where we had to get our facts *exactly* right. Mark had a laptop PC by the side of the stage all the way through the recording of this programme just to make sure he didn't get anything wrong. Otherwise, in his own words, "he'd have had lawyers crawling out of his arse from here to eternity".