All hijinks... ever
These are projects carried out over the years by the Yes Men and their student and organizational partners.
For a timeline of when and why they occurred, see our timeline (coming soon). For why we did certain actions, and how well we think they succeeded, see our press pages. For the full, gory stories behind actions, take a peek behind the curtain.
Apple Goes "Conflict Free"
On behalf of Apple, students from the New School in New York, adovocacy group Friends of the Congo, and the Yes Lab, launched a fake Apple website announcing an exciting new ethical product from the hip computer giant: the iPhone4-CF.
"CF" stands…
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Chevron's $80 million ad campaign gets flushed
A simple leak blossomed into a frenzy and then another — all of it hilariously fun, albeit stressful — that ended up destroying Chevron's profoundly misguided ad campaign. Browse the videos, releases, and press to the right, or read our full account…
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France Remains Offensive
An ad-hoc group called CRIME (Committee for the Reimbursement of Indemnity Money Extorted from Haiti) announced, on France’s behalf, the repayment of €17 billion to Haiti in relief aid—a payment equal to France extorted from Haiti in 1804 as a…
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World Leaders Address Poverty
In 2010 we created a fake website and some early "deep fake" videos for the World Economic Forum in Davos. Click on the links to the right to see each of these videos…
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Canada Does the Right Thing
A coalition of African, Canadian, and European activists including the Yes Men wanted to push for "climate debt" reparations by the world's wealthiest countries, and to call out Canada in particular for its terrible climate policy.
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce Goes Green
The head of PR for the US Chamber of Commerce, Eric Wohlschlegel, made our fake press conference on the Chamber's behalf our second most popular project ever—by barging in and disrupting it! This project, the centerpiece of our third movie, might…
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New York Post Tells The Truth
New York's favorite tabloid got a face-lift of sorts one day before the city hosted a major UN summit on climate change. Distributed by over 2000 volunteers throughout New York City, an eco-conscious but otherwise pitch-perfect replica of the New…
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New York Times Special Edition
A week after the historic presidential election that brought Barack Obama to the White House, the Yes Men were joined by hundreds of independent writers, artists, and activists in an elaborate project, six months in the making, to release a "special…
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The New University in Exile
Invited to participate in an art show about democracy at the New School, where Andy was teaching, we agreed to do so on one condition: no one would know our piece was part of the art show. The wonderful curator agreed. The Yes Men were listed as…
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Exxon's climate-victim candles
"Exxon" and "National Petroleum Council" reps (Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno) told 300 oilmen at Canada's largest oil conference that the real solution to climate change was simply to turn everyone who dies into fuel so that the all-important free…
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Stinging some desperate French politicians
In 2007, we set up a fake TV studio to convince French politicians they were on a right-wing American talk show. Freed from the constraints of civilized discourse, they really let loose. One asserted that there are no poor people whatsoever in…
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Balls Across America
The Survivaball made its first appearance in 2006, when "Halliburton representatives" attended a conference on catastrophic climate change and demonstrated the functionality of the large inflatable suits ("a gated community for one"), which keep…
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Videos
These are videos that reveal actions, are used within actions, or come out of actions.
For standalone shorts, see our movies page.
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