Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano, a.k.a. the Yes Men, are a pair of activist pranksters who started a mock World Trade Organization website and parlayed it into gigs speaking as WTO representatives at economic conferences around the world. The pair used their cases of mistaken identity to play elaborate jokes designed to expose the hypocrisy and cruelty of the WTO's economic policies, and the documentary, The Yes Men, follows them as they plan and execute several such pranks.
Like a left-wing version of Punk'd, The Yes Men shows Bichlbaum and Bonnano advocating recycling human waste into food for third-world countries (to a college economics class), proposing a system for selling votes in a democracy (to an Austrian trade conference) and demonstrating a phallic gold suit to "monitor remote workers" (to a gathering of textiles executives in Finland).
The bits are funny and manage to convey actual information, and it is somewhat appalling to see the lack of response to the extreme ideas when they're assumed to be coming from a reputable source like the WTO. But since Bichlbaum and Bonnano only take on hapless Finnish bureaucrats and brain-dead TV hosts and not the actual WTO, you can't help but feel a little sorry for their victims. The film is amusing and at times informative, but it's also got an underlying self-importance that's a little condescending.