James Veitch is a comedian, author and former Apple Store Genius whose deadpan takes on modern technology have made him one of the most distinctive voices on the corporate and festival comedy circuit. He first built a following with sold-out Edinburgh Fringe runs of Dot Con, Game Face and Genius Bar between 2014 and 2016, transferring his debut to Soho Theatre off the back of strong reviews, before turning the material into his bestselling book Dot Con, published in 2015 and built around his own real correspondence with email scammers.
That correspondence became the basis of his TED talk "This is what happens when you reply to spam email," recorded in 2015 and since watched more than 50 million times, making it one of the most-viewed TED talks ever released. The same tech-satire angle has carried him onto US television with two appearances on Conan, an HBO Max stand-up special, Straight to VHS, and his own BBC Radio 4 series, James Veitch's Contractual Obligation. His mix of internet culture and old-fashioned storytelling has also taken him around corporate and conference stages for Google, Marriott Hotels, Hewlett Packard, Wix and NASA.
That corporate track record makes Veitch a rare booking: a comedian equally at home headlining an evening show or opening a tech conference with a keynote built around the same material that made him a global name. For bookers after something sharper and more contemporary than a traditional after-dinner turn, particularly for technology, communications or innovation-themed events, Veitch offers an act with genuine viral pedigree and a delivery that plays just as well in a boardroom as it does on a comedy club stage.