Tom Mabe

Tom Mabe is an American comedian, YouTuber, prankster, and jingle writer. Based in Louisville, Kentucky, he achieved notability with his prank responses to telemarketing calls. Upon receiving an unsolicited call, Mabe would engage telemarketers in an unexpected and often uncomfortable conversation while recording the incident. One of his best known pranks of this genre involved convincing a telemarketer that he had inadvertently called the scene of a homicide.

Mabe 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. He now operates a YouTube channel entitled "MabeInAmerica", onto which he uploads his pranks, primarily focusing on candid camera style pranking, although telemarketing related calls are still included on occasion. In 2008, Mabe was the executive producer, writer, and talent for the CMT comedy series Mabe In America, of which six episodes were produced. As a stand-up comedian, his acts generally revolve around issues that Americans tend to find annoying, including email spam, bad customer service, and high gas prices.

In December 2013, Mabe created a prank video intended to discourage driving under the influence, in which he and several accomplices convinced a mutual friend with a history of multiple DUIs that he had just awoken from a 10-year coma resulting from a drunk driving crash. It became a viral video, earning over 28 million views on YouTube by October 2017. His discography includes Revenge on the Telemarketers (1997), A Wake Up Call for Telemarketers (2003), and King of the Ring (2011).