Tom Scott (entertainer)
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| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of York |
| Occupation | Entertainer, web developer |
| Website | tomscott |
Tom Scott (born 1984) is a British comedian, YouTuber and formerly the presenter of Gadget Geeks on Sky One. He lives in London and is originally from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He graduated from the University of York with a degree in linguistics.
In 2004, Scott produced a website parodying the British government's emergency response procedures and included a section explaining what to do in case of a zombie apocalypse. The Cabinet Office responded by demanding the site be taken down.
In 2008, his University Radio York radio show, "The Technical Difficulties", won the Kevin Greening Award at the Student Radio Awards. More recently, The Technical Difficulties has been relaunched as a podcast, and as a series on Scott's YouTube channel.
In 2010, Scott captained the Hitchhikers in series 3 of BBC Four's Only Connect. They reached the semi-finals, but were knocked out by the Strategists.
In 2012, he was part of the Team in the Sky 1 series Gadget Geeks where he was responsible for the Software solutions.
In 2013, Scott received widespread coverage for 'Actual Facebook Graph Searches', a Tumblr site which exposes potentially embarrassing or dangerous collation of public Facebook data using Facebook's Graph Search, such as showing men in Tehran who have said that they are "interested in men", or "Single women who live nearby and are interested in men and like getting drunk".
Scott was the UK organiser of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and successfully ran as "Mad Cap'n Tom" for student union president at the University of York.
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