King of Pranks, Author, Filmmaker (UK)
Hall AAA | Friday | 5PM
That’s right. Oobah is coming back to DK2024 with a vengeance. If you weren’t lucky enough to meet him at DK2019, let us introduce you to the king of pranks himself. Oobah Butler is a lot of things. A #1 fake restauranteur. Paris Fashion Week’s top fake designer. The host of MTV’s Catfish UK. A bestselling LA Times author. And now he’s on some new bullsh*it with brand new pranks and updated content.
At the end of 2023, he broke the internet yet again while turning his attention to one of the world’s biggest corporations in his debut TV documentary, The Great Amazon Heist. The film broke international news, which unified people across the political spectrum, with the likes of Fox News saying it “exposes serious allegations about the tech giant’s corporate culture” while Wired claimed it “portrays a company that simply doesn’t seem to care.”
With a combination of hardcore undercover reporting and Butler-patented stunts like creating an energy drink from Amazon drivers’ urine, listing it on their platform, and manipulating it to be a #1 product, this film was hailed in a 5-star review by The Daily Telegraph as an “ingenious exposé” — and a sign that Oobah Butler has matured without losing what has made his career so explosive to date.
Oobah Butler: The Great Amazon Heist
Join Oobah Butler for this compelling story as he unravels The Great Amazon Heist project that was deemed "basically impossible" due to legal hurdles. But this veteran prankster did it and somehow made it work. We couldn’t make this up even if wanted to. So join him in Hall AAA because this talk offers a truly intimate look into Butler's Odyssey — a modern-day David facing the colossal challenge of taking on Goliath.