The Yes Men Change the World: New York Times Segment ending.

My favorite part from the documentary: The Yes Men Fix the World.

The Yes Men Fix the World (2009) is a documentary film about the culture jamming exploits of The Yes Men. The film premiered in New York City and Los Angeles on October 23, 2009 and in other U.S. cities beginning on October 30. After first appearing at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.


The Yes Men are a group of culture jamming activists who practice what they call "identity correction" by pretending to be powerful people and spokespersons for prominent organizations. From their offices in Milwaukee, they create and maintain fake websites similar to ones they want to spoof, and then they accept invitations received on their websites to appear at conferences, symposia, and TV shows. They express the idea that corporations and governmental organizations often act in dehumanizing ways toward the public. Elaborate props are sometimes part of the ruse, as shown in their 2003 DVD release The Yes Men.

Their method is often satire: posing as corporate or government spokespeople, they often make shocking comments which they contend are an honest rendering of the organization's ideology which is usually hidden by spin, or extrapolate what they feel is the organization's ideology in a 'reductio ad absurdum' to come out with outrageous conclusions, such as that it should be possible to sell your vote or that the poor should eat recycled human waste. On most occasions no shock or anger is registered in the response to their prank, with no one realizing they are impostors. Sometimes, the Yes Men's phony spokesperson makes announcements that represent dream scenarios for the anti-globalization movement or opponents of corporate crime. The result is false news reports of the demise of the World Trade Organization, or Dow Chemical paying compensation to the victims of the Bhopal disaster, which the Yes Men intend to provide publicity for problems concerning these organizations.

The Yes Men have posed as spokespeople for the WTO, McDonalds, Dow Chemical, and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. The two leading members of The Yes Men are known by a number of aliases, most recently, and in film, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno. Their real names are Jacque Servin[1] and Igor Vamos, respectively. Servin is an author of experimental fiction, and was known for being the man who inserted images of men kissing in the computer game SimCopter. Vamos is an associate professor of media arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York. They are assisted by numerous people across the globe.

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[amielanquist41]

i wanna see this movie again in webmovietube

[TrumpetManinNC]

What's remarkable is how many saw almost immediately that this version of 'news' was fake -- and at the same time said how wonderful it would be.

[amanda1brasileira]

I think it's nice that at least someone is trying to be optimistic. We need more of that in the world

[FirstKoba]

only use for it is lining the bird cage. what a load of crap

[HENZEK1]

2:38 there goes my military career 2:54 that would destroy NATO 4:27 ? American people hate USA military.

[RealityGameWorld]

thought this would have MORE THUMS UP

[lenarita1]

i love them.

[richardboy316]

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