Mark Thomas and Rob Newman Double Bill December 21, 2005

The show with Mark Thomas and Rob Newman alternates each night who goes on first and who closes the show. Robert Newman was born in 1964. He is Greek-Cypriot, English, French and American. He has worked as a farmhand, warehouseman, house-painter, teacher, mail sorter, social worker, mover and broadcaster. Mark Thomas (born 1963) is a comedian, presenter and reporter from south London. He first came to light as a support comic on the BBC Radio 1 comedy show The Mary Whitehouse Experience in the late 1980s.

Mark Thomas is more famously known for the Channel 4 programme "Mark Thomas Comedy Product", in which he mixed stand up comedy with political activism in a show which pushed out Michael Moore from British TV schedules only for itself to be dropped a few years later.