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Petchtai Wongkamlao, Thai หม่ำ จ๊กม๊ก, is a Thai comedian, actor and film director. He is best known in Thailand by his stage name, Mum Jokmok, and is a popular Thai television personality. He is variously credited as Mom Jok Mok or Mom Jokmok.

Biography

Best known role

The moon-faced funnyman is perhaps best known for his film role as George (or Dirty Balls), the comic-relief character in Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior
, a popular action film that stars Tony Jaa.

Mum reprised the comic-relief role in the followup to Ong-Bak, Tom-Yum-Goong
, though instead of a con artist, as he portrayed in Ong-Bak, he was a Sydney police inspector. Much of the comedy in Tom-Yum-Goong had to do with Mum's character speaking English, which is not his first language. A gag reel over the closing credits shows him struggling with many of his lines.

First film, directorial debut

His first film role was in 2001's Killer Tattoo, the debut film by director Yuthlert Sippapak. In the story of a group of bumbling hitmen, his character was named Dog Badbomb.

After Ong-Bak became a huge hit, Petchtai was able to write, direct and star in his own film, The Bodyguard
, a wire fu action film in which he portrays a bodyguard who is wrongly fired after the politician he is protecting is killed. Stunts were choreographed by Panna Ritikrai, and Ong-Bak's Tony Jaa has a small role as a fighter in a supermarket. One of the most infamous scenes in the film is when Mum's character runs naked across Bangkok's crowded Victory Monument public square, a major junction for public transportation. Police, apparently not informed that a movie was being made, arrested the comedian for indecent exposure, though this is not shown in the film.

Mum wrote, directed and starred in 2005's Yam Yasothon (Hello Yasothon), in which he got back to his roots as a nightclub (or cafe) comedian for a musical romantic comedy set in rural northeast Thailand in 1967. It was an homage to the Thai musical comedy films of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly the films of Mitr Chaibancha and Petchara Chaowarat. The dialogue was entirely in the Isan dialect, and for its theatre screenings in Bangkok, Thai subtitles were provided so central Thais could understand. For the Thailand National Film Awards, Yam Yasothon received a best-actress nomination for Mum's co-star, Janet Kheaw.

Dramatic roles

A prolific actor and ever-present celebrity, Mum also has shown a flair for dramatic acting. Also released in 2005, he starred in Midnight, My Love (Cherm), as a loner taxi driver who gets into a relationship with a massage parlor girl. Cherm was screened at the 10th Pusan International Film Festival. For his role, Mum was nominated for best actor at the 2005 Thailand National Film Awards. His co-star, Woranut Wongsawan, was nominated for best actress.

He is often seen in smaller roles as well, including the hit 2005 Thai comedy, The Holy Man (Luang Phii Theng) as well as an uncredited role in Dumber Heroes, a part he has said he did for "a case of beer".

Mum is even an author, penning a short autobiography, The Untold Story (ISBN 974919469-1).

The end of 2005 saw Mum starring in Ghost Variety (Pee Chalui), a comedy-horror story in which he plays the director of a reality TV series that searches for spirits in haunted places. The film was released on December 29, 2005. The film was directed by Adirek "Uncle" Wattaleela, a veteran producer and director, and it featured guest appearances many Thai film directors and producers, including Somsak Techaratanaprasert, Prachya Pinkaew, Piak Poster, Cherd Songsri, Yuthlert Sippapak and many others.

Among Mum's plans for 2006 is a sequel to The Bodyguard.

Filmography

As actor

Killer Tattoo (2001
)
Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior
(2003
)
The Bodyguard
(2004
)
Midnight, My Love (Cherm) (2005)
The Holy Man (Luang Phii Theng) (2005)
Dumber Heroes (2005) (cameo)
Tom-Yum-Goong
(2005)
Yam Yasothon (Hello Yasothon) (2005)
Ghost Variety (Pee Chalui) (2005
)
Dangerous Flowers (Chai-Lai) (2006
)
Krasue Valentine (Ghost of Valentine) (2006) (in film clip from The Bodyguard)
Nong Teng (2006) (cameo)

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