'Andy' (foreground) and 'Mike',
the Yes Men.
Photograph: Matthew Tempest.
After eight straight hours of high-minded and radical debate at the "Corporate Dreams, Global Nightmare" counter-conference, it's time for a little light relief – in the form of a presentation from the Yes Men, the two trade justice pranksters who have fooled several media outlets into inviting them on to their shows as representatives of the World Trade Organisation or the Union Carbide company.
"Andy" and "Mike" introduce a series of clips from their hoodwinking-with-a-purpose hoaxes, starting with an interview on the CNBC's Market Wrap show, where, as a spoof WTO spokesman, "Andy" said the body had given up trying to convince the current generation of anti-globalisation activists of the rightness of their cause, but would instead indoctrinate their children with Milton Friedman and Darwin.
Hilarious – although frighteningly no one on the show at the time batted an eyelid.
Even more cruelly, in between clips the cameraman focuses in on a pair of sleeping World Development Movement volunteers in the audience, who have clearly had a long day ... and night. Not even the whole audience laughing at them can wake up these two up.
