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	The Yes Men
		The Yes Men cut a bloody swath of highly refined and target-specific practical jokes...but that is not the whole of this.
		The Yes Men, by contrast, utilize the bureaucratic and institutional expectations of their targets (i.e., any greedheaded institutions stupid enough to invite them to speak) and proceed to conspicuously mock everything their targets stand for..."globalization", "free trade", "unrestrained markets." The very institutions of modern capitalism...institutions that are slowly but surely destroying the human race.
		The Yes Men believe it to be so, and they believe it with enough force to commit acts like this...on camera...and then sell the footage directly to you in the hope (infinetesimal as it may seem) that you might actually agree with their belief...or at least derive some enjoyment from their antics.
	chosis.coldfusionvideo.com /yes-men.html (1072 words)

	The Yes Men
		The Yes Men are political awareness-raisers who use pranks and hoaxes to draw attention to issues that would otherwise find little space in the American media.
		They gleefully rise to the challenge and, with their small network of Yes Men, organise outrageous lectures designed to poke fun, criticise and also jumpstart the audience into having some sort of individual responsibility in their involvement in the unquestioned corporate dynamic of institutional corruption.
		However, without this latest prank, according to The Yes Men, the 20th Anniversary of the DOW chemical disaster in Bhopal would have gone largely unnoticed in the North American press.
	www.filmireland.net /exclusives/yesmen.htm (2290 words)

	The Yes Men
		The Yes Men are a group of guys who traveled the world posing as others, notably members of the World Trade Organization, then viciously satirizing their beliefs in front of esteemed audiences.
		The Yes Men satirized their subjects by taking things to the extreme, to illustrate what they felt was the inherent wackiness of Bush, the WTO, or whoever.
		The two cornerstones in The Yes Men were the 'management leisure suit' and their defense of slavery.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/yes_men.html (605 words)

	The Yes Men
		None so far as the Yes Men, corporate pranksters who at one point travel to Finland to unveil a shiny golden "management leisure suit" equipped with a giant inflatable appendage that is borderline pornographic.
		Andy and Mike's adventures are detailed in The Yes Men, a documentary that follows them around the world as they give phony presentations on topics such as the exportation of slavery and a scheme to recycle human waste as McDonald's hamburgers and feed them to people in the Third World.
		The Yes Men have plenty of help, including funding sources, a tailor who designs items such as the gold leisure suit and a computer graphics expert who creates hilarious animated short films (the one on McDonald's is priceless) to help them along.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/1008yesmen08.html (512 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - The Yes Men (15A)
		The Yes Men's lectures were so completely outlandish that it's hard to believe that their audiences actually accepted them as fact, but they did, which is the funniest thing about the Yes Men's activities.
		Parodying a body like the WTO so effectively is funny, but the Yes Men's message was lost in the wacky scope of their vision.
		If the filmmakers had documented some of the Yes Men's earlier activities, such as their parody of George W Bush's website, or Mike's involvement in the Barbie Liberation Organisation, the documentary would have benefited.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2005/0217/theyesmen.html (350 words)

	The Yes Men
		The result of the filmmakers' four-year journey with the Yes Men -- so named because they basically agree with people, then push their ideas to the point of absurdity -- is a head-shaking, gut-busting subversive film.
		The young people get angry when the Yes Men propose to end world hunger by making the poor eat hamburgers made of human waste that can be recycled up to 10 times.
		Yes, "The Yes Men" inspires much laughter, but one leaves the theater in a somber mood.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2068180 (470 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Yes Men (xhtml)
		"The Yes Men" is a disturbing documentary in which a couple of tricksters named Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum create a fictional WTO spokesman named Hank Hardy Unruh, and a fake WTO Web site where he can be contacted.
		But I am a film critic, and must report that "The Yes Men" is amazing in what it shows, but underwhelming in what it does with it.
		Yes, we'd like to know more about the infrastructure that supports the Yes Men, and have more objective information about the WTO.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041001/REVIEWS/40920009/1023 (1028 words)

	Yes Men pull Halliburton hoax - Business - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Members of the Yes Men, a group of environmental and corporate ethics activists, gave a presentation at a trade conference pretending to be Halliburton executives touting large inflatable suits that provide corporate managers safety from global warming.
		The Yes Men say they uncover the wrongdoings of corporations with "identity correction." They set up phony Web sites and e-mail addresses under names similar to the real companies and wait for invitations to conferences and media interviews, where they reverse the companies' positions on hot topics.
		One of the Yes Men appeared in a British Broadcasting Corp. interview in late 2004 as a Dow spokesman and claimed responsibility for a 1984 cyanide gas leak in Bhopal, India, which killed thousands of people.
	washingtontimes.com /business/20060511-110534-5777r.htm (610 words)

	The Yes Men (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Yes Men are an actual group of prankster geopolitical activists, led by Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, who oppose the Bush Administration and the current trends in global trade regulation and the WTO, which, they and many other critics assert, exploit developing nations to make rich countries richer.
		The Yes Men group has maintained a website with a domain name close to that used by President Bush as his official website.
		The Yes Men have also succeeded in sending representatives to speak at international trade conferences, masquerading as official representatives of the WTO and getting away with it.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0379593 (698 words)

	DVD: The Yes Men
		Well the political pranksters known as The Yes Men, who traveled the world impersonating spokespersons of the WTO, may not have pulled off that feat, but they did shake the WTO up and garnered lots of media attention in the process.
		The Yes Men are a bold group of activists who some of you might remember created the scathing satirical website www.gwbush.com during the 2000 election and were threatened by Bush’s lawyers with lawsuits.
		The Yes Men then moved on to create another satirical website called GATT.org – which stands for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades and was the predecessor to the WTO.
	www.buzzflash.com /reviews/05/rev05013.html (433 words)

	AlterNet: Big (Yes) Men on Campus
		The Yes Men drove around campus all day shouting humorous “pro-Bush” slogans and playing a George Bush remix of Usher’s “Yeah.” Props on the bus included smoke and a missile with the phrase “The end is near” painted on.
		As part of the campaign, the Yes Men dispersed pro-Bush pamphlets, urging students to take “The USA Patriot Pledge.” Taking the pledge means volunteering one’s children to fight overseas, vowing to lobby in favor of building nuclear waste storage in one’s community, taking a vow of pre-marital celibacy, and more.
		Yes, Bush Can has been traveling all over the country to spread what the Yes Men say is the truth about the Bush administration.
	www.alternet.org /story/20310 (1161 words)

	God's Yes Men
		One of the most common examples of yes men are church leaders who seek to please the world at the expense of the biblical truth.
		Both men were troubled by their inability to find solid evidence for God's existence, and by what appeared to be His unjust nature.
		Because a yes man is not likely to have a commitment that comes from his heart, it's hard for him to find the truth.
	www.raptureready.com /rr-yes-men.html (2471 words)

	The Voice of the Turtle
		The Yes Men are an odd flank in the battle against capitalist globalisation.
		Except that, rather than reproducing the WTO site verbatim, the Yes Men have inserted a few disruptive comments of their own; instead, then, of a new tariff schedule for Burkina Faso, one might find oneself confronted by a dizzying array of statistics correlating increases in trade with decreases in standards of living.
		The Yes Men's press release puts it well: "After overcoming their initial shock, the audience of Australian accountants expressed enthusiasm for the change, and offered many thoughtful suggestions for how world trade could benefit the poormoving the headquarters from Switzerland to a Third World country, for example.
	www.voiceoftheturtle.org /salutes/theyesmen.php (801 words)

	LA Weekly - The Yes Men Are Coming! The Yes Men Are Coming!
		As the convention petered out, the âYes, Bush Can!â bus was still in the shop, and the Yes Men decided to go with their backup plan of proceeding to L.A., where they outfitted a van with a bare-bones set of agitprop tools and headed north for Seattle.
		The Yes Men, on their way to Medford when the announcement was made, had improvised a Healthy Forestry Award and appeared at Senator Smithâs office to make a presentation.
		But their enthusiastic outbursts taper off as the film winds down during the final episode in which the Yes Men travel to Sydney, where, as their alter egos, they announce the dissolution of the WTO because they finally recognized that they were hurting poor people instead of helping them.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/04/44/features-harvey.php (2086 words)

	The Yes Men cometh Progressive, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Headed by Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum, the Yes Men are a band of social activists who thrive on spoofing the policies of a politician or corporation.
		The Yes Men currently claim 327,000 members dedicated to exposing what Bichlbaum calls "the nonsense thinking that runs the world." The 2004 documentary film The Yes Men reveals how the group exchanged the voice boxes of Barbie dolls and GI Joes in one of its early projects.
		The film The Yes Men follows Bonanno and Bichlbaum (alias "Andreas Bichlbauer" in Austria, "Hank Hardy Unruh" in Finland, "Kinnithrung Sprat" in Australia, and "Granwyth Hulatberi" on CNBC) around the world as they impersonate WTO representatives.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1295/is_4_69/ai_n13760503 (803 words)

	Just say Yes - Salon
		He and his partner, Andy Bichlbaum, together known as the political prank team the Yes Men, plan to use Smokey the Log in their latest act of activism/performance art.
		The Yes Men are sort of like "Jackass" for the MoveOn set, except they set the artistic bar a bit higher.
		This schoolboy's accidental nightmare is the intentional climax to the Yes Men's political theater of the absurd.
	www.salon.com /ent/feature/2004/09/23/yes_men/index.html (607 words)

	Yes Men Punk the WTO; Smith, Bichlbaum, and Bonnano on "The Yes Men"
		Yes Men Punk the WTO; Smith, Bichlbaum, and Bonnano on "The Yes Men"
		In the spirit of "Jackass" (or maybe "Punk'd") on MTV, Dan Ollman, Sarah Price and Chris Smith's new documentary "The Yes Men" follows a group of culture jammers, one person affectionately referred to them as "cultural terrorists," who typically impersonate such established organizations as the WTO to present their own take on those organizations views.
		In one action, the Yes Men unveil the WTO and McDonalds' answer to world hunger, a burger re-purposed from human waste, while in another a supposed WTO representative announces that the group is disbanding.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_040930yesmen.html (1177 words)

	The Yes Men Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		In case you haven't heard, "The Yes Men" (real guys Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno) are a couple of high-minded high-tech pranksters who are best known for creating the bogus GWBush.com website shortly before the 2000 election.
		We're not sure if the WTO even noticed, because the filmmakers decided to focus almost exclusively on the Yes Men as they pretended to be WTO representatives at two conferences, on a television interview, and in a guest lecture at a New York City college.
		As a result, we never get close to the Yes Men, and never get a real sense of their motivation or trepidation as they embark on each new risky impersonation.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=139964 (1001 words)

	The Yes Men
		The Yes Men (Mike and Andy) help troublesome organizations take their institutional logic to its rational extremes, exposing the realities of unmitigated corporate capitalism, corrupt political regimes and other really bad ideas.
		When two of its members are mistaken for the real thing, they play along with the ruse and soon find themselves invited to important functions as WTO representatives.
		Delighted to represent the organization they politically oppose, they don thrift-store suits and set out to shock unwitting audiences with darkly comic satire, highlighting the worst aspects of global free trade.
	www.movienet.com /yesmen.html (697 words)

	The Yes Men (2004): Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno - PopMatters Film Review
		That is, the Yes Men (sometimes also known as Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno) engage in prankster-style direct activism, revealing the illogical and hypocritical practices of institutions that habitually "put profits ahead of everything else." Their usual mode is face to face, as they attend a conference or address a group of people in suits.
		Unlike fellow activist Michael Moore, however, the Yes Men, because they are so agreeable, tend to be invited to such events.
		The movie will bring attention to them, and that's the ironic rub, that they must be noticed, become visible, in order to show the effectiveness of their interventions, though that effectiveness is also premised on the utter acceptance of their conference audiences.
	popmatters.com /film/reviews/y/yes-men.shtml (954 words)

	The Yes Men - Movie Review
		In other words, the comic duo who call themselves 'the Yes Men' pulled off their greatest coup by getting Bush to do their work for them and ridicule himself in public.
		For while no doubt the WTO does indeed peddle injustices on a massive scale, 'The Yes Men' documents a spoof rather than the real thing, so that the only perspective it gives on the WTO is filtered through an exaggerated distortion offered by avowedly antagonistic fraudsters.
		When they fail to elicit from the WTO itself a response as tellingly preposterous as Bush's was to their previous stunt, the pair resort to suggesting that the reception extended to them by their hosts constitutes proof of the world business community's unquestioning acquiescence to WTO authority.
	www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/1029 (567 words)

	The Yes Men (2004) Movie Review - The Hollywood News
		Upon seeing Chris Smith's name attached to the new documentary The Yes Men, I didn't even need to read what it was about.
		When The Yes Men are out there doing their thing, this movie is drop dead hilarious.
		Sadly, when The Yes Men are prepping to wreak havoc on unsuspecting crowds, the film stops dead in it's tracks.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /reviews/archive/2004/the-yes-men.php (383 words)

	Amazon.com: The Yes Men: DVD: Mike Bonanno,Andy Bichlbaum,Michael Moore (II),Patrick Lichty,Sal Salamone,Philip De ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Yes Men are most famous for their impersonation of and eventual staged disbanding of the WTO.
		I've heard The Yes Men called the socially conscious version of MTV's Jackass, and that may not be far off base.
		As far as the humor goes, there are some funny moments, particularly the scene where one of the "Yes Men" is on a news program with other men giving his take on world economic policy.
	www.amazon.com /Yes-Men-Mike-Bonanno/dp/B0006N2DSI (1912 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Yes Men, The / DVD-Video
		With poker-faced impersonation as their weapon, and World Trade Organization officials as their target, the Yes Men pull off one bold prank after another in an effort to raise political consciousness.
		And when their outrageous stunts are actually swallowed-hook, line and sinker- the Yes Men must up the satirical ante and push the art of public spectacle to hilarious new heights!
		If conservatives think that Michael Moore is a pain in the ass, they should be happy they’ve never been the target of “The Yes Men.” The Yes Men are Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum, two odd individuals who have made it their goal to disrupt the WTO (World Trade Organization) as much as possible.
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=647585 (269 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Yes Men Hoax on BBC Reminds World of Dow Chemical's Refusal to Take Responsibility for Bhopal Disaster
		The 20th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy was a day of embarrassment for Dow chemicals and the major news media around the world when the BBC fell victim to a hoax from a man claiming to be a Dow spokesperson who claimed full responsibility for the tragedy and announcing a multibillion dollar compensation package.
		I'm with the Yes Men and we have done this, sort of, what we call identity correction on a number of different targets.
		ANDY BICHLBAUM: Yes, we felt that we owed Dow some public relations work so we issued an explanation by Dow that in fact the Jude Finisterra fellow in the morning had not been their representative and that in fact everything he said was incorrect.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/12/06/1453248 (2586 words)

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