The Mark Thomas Comedy Product
- Genre: Documentary, Comedy
- Last Air Date: 2002-05-01
- Total Seasons: 7
- Total Episodes: 52
- Status: Ended
- Episode Runtime: 30 min.
- Network: Channel 4
The Mark Thomas Comedy Product was a television show fronted by the English comedian, presenter, political activist and reporter, Mark Thomas. It was broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 from February 1996 to May 2002. The show, described as "a brilliantly ludicrous alternative to Watchdog", was a hybrid of comedy and serious politics, with Thomas often using silly or surreal methods to gain interviews with politicians and corporations and to highlight issues.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | Bear Necessities | 1996-02-23 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | McDonalds and Mad Saddam | 1996-03-01 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | Parliament! | 1996-03-08 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Tours of London | 1996-03-15 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | MI6 and Birching Young Offenders | 1996-03-22 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Show in a Flat | 1996-03-29 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | Campbell, Fayed & Straw | 1998-01-21 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Church Money | 1998-01-28 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Sellafield and Mice | 1998-02-04 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | Virgin Trains | 1998-02-11 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | Lottery | 1998-02-18 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | New Deal | 1998-02-25 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | Conditionally Exempt Works of Art and the Millennium Dome | 1998-03-04 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | Arms Fair | 1999-01-13 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | Indonesian Torture | 1999-01-20 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | Geoffrey Robinson | 1999-01-27 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | Local Referendums | 1999-02-03 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | Nuclear Trains | 1999-02-10 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | Company Directors | 1999-02-17 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | Menwith Hill | 1999-02-24 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | Updates | 1999-03-03 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 9 | Special Report: Asylum and Immigration Bill | 1999-03-06 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 1 | Premier Oil and Burma | 1999-09-21 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 2 | Iraqi Sanctions | 1999-09-28 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 3 | Nestlé | 1999-10-05 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment | 1999-10-12 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 5 | Export Credit Guarantee Department | 1999-10-19 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 1 | David Shayler | 2000-01-06 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 2 | PPL Human Milk Production | 2000-01-13 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 3 | Xenotransplantation | 2000-01-20 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 4 | Export Credit Guarantee Department (Ilisu Dam) | 2000-01-27 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 5 | Government Accountability | 2000-02-03 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 6 | Updates | 2000-02-10 | 30 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 1 | Data Protection Act | 2001-01-08 | 30 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 2 | MEP's Interests | 2001-01-10 | 30 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 3 | Michael Meacher | 2001-01-17 | 30 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 4 | Pester Power | 2001-01-24 | 30 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 5 | Balfour Beatty | 2001-01-31 | 30 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 6 | Tube Privatisation | 2001-02-07 | 30 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 7 | Updates | 2001-02-14 | 30 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 1 | Organophosphates | 2002-03-27 | 30 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 2 | Drug Dumping | 2002-04-03 | 30 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 3 | Corporate Killing | 2002-04-10 | 30 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 4 | Yusufeli Dam | 2002-04-17 | 30 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 5 | Quango State | 2002-04-24 | 30 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 6 | Arms Dealing | 2002-05-01 | 30 min |
| Production | Geoff Atkinson | Producer |
| Writing | Mark Thomas | Writer |