James Veitch

Comedian, writer

For James Veitch, spam emails proved the perfect opening to have some fun, playing the scammers at their own game.

Why you should listen

James Veitch's correspondence with email spammers leads to surprising, bizarre and usually hilarious results. Out of this experiment came his book, Dot Con. In 2014, his first solo comedy show, The Fundamental Interconnectedness of Everyone with an Internet Connection, premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe. His second show, Genius Bar, focused on his time working for Apple, chronicled his attempts to fix his relationship using the same troubleshooting techniques he'd been using to fix iMacs, iPhones and iPods.

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