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Filmed in Brighton in 2000, Resistance Is Fertile is a departure from all other comedy videos. Radical filmakers Conscious Cinema interweave Newman's stage act with first-hand documenatry footage from the political underground, samples and subertisements that you won't see anywhere in the corporate media.
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"Very funny - political, philosophical, witty and sharp." Daily Mirror

"Hugely impressive... " Time Out

"Crackles with energy and ideas" Times

"Newman has a sharply subversive mind, but it's as good at puncturing his own pretensions as those of the military-industrial complex, and his politics never overwhelm his comic impulses. He's a great physical
performer, too, not just brilliant at the verbals." Sunday Times

"Sharper than ever" Financial Times

With first-hand footage of Brazil's Movement of the Landless (MST), Indian anti-World Bank protests, the Seattle, City of London and Prague/IMF protests, director DYLAN HOWITT has spliced together an explosive mix of film, video, super-8, all edited to the powerful music of ANDY WEATHERALL, Britain's top underground DJ and ambience-driver.

Eight months in the editing and production, director DYLAN HOWITT's film of RESISTANCE IS FERTILE is an antidote to the cynical, disposable, marketing product of most stand-up comedy videos. He uses links with the global camcordistas and interviews with leading campiagners in the Global South to create a vision of how an unreported global resistance is fast turning into an unreported global uprising against private power.

"The finest political comedian of our generation" Jeremy Hardy

"I love Robert Newman. The only comic I know who can explain globalisation and make you piss yourself at the same time. Although he isn't as funny as me." Mark Thomas

"It took me years to build up a warm, receptive, and above all, loyal following in St Helens. It took one night of cat-like, class-filled, comedic burglary from Mr Newman (Raffles) to steal them away from right under me own bloody nose (but what fun watching him do it)" Johnny Vegas

Robert Newman's follow-up show "From Caliban To The Taliban - 500 Years of Humanitarian Intervention" is in the fourth month of a sell-out run at the Soho Theatre. He begins a forty-date national tour in February.

Robert Newman's new novel The Fountain At The Centre Of The World , is published in the UK, September 2003, by Verso. The Fountain At The Center Of The World is published January 2004 by Soft Skull in the USA.

And on BBC2, March 2003: 'Scribbling', a fifty-minute documentary, tells the story of the writing of Robert Newman's The Fountain At The Centre Of The World.