Tom Mabe

[5][6] Mabe, based in Louisville, Kentucky, achieved notability with his prank responses to telemarketing calls.

[7][8][9][10][11][5][6][12][13][14][15] Upon receiving an unsolicited call, Mabe would engage telemarketers in an unexpected and often uncomfortable conversation while recording the incident.

[8] One of his best known pranks of this genre involved convincing a telemarketer that he had inadvertently called the scene of a homicide.

[16][11][17] He has been featured on Drew & Mike in the Morning on WRIF numerous times and has released three comedy albums of his calls through Virgin Records Nashville.

The current center of focus of his acts generally revolves around issues that Americans tend to find annoying including email spam, bad customer service, and high gas prices.