Mark Thomas, comedian " portrait of the artist
The political comic on why telly's 'battery viewers' should be liberated, and the best advice he ever hadWhat got you started?The fact that the one time the whole family came together was during shows like The Clitheroe Kid and Steptoe and Son. There was a cachet in our household if you could make people laugh. The first gag I told my dad, I nicked from Steptoe and Son and passed off as my own. He hadn't seen that ep…