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How to Trick Your Way onto the Property Ladder review – living in a grave plot? We really are screwed

Oobah Butler pulls some fun stunts in this takedown of the housing crisis, such as hypnotising estate agents and renting prison cells. But his trip to a graveyard is brutally symbolic

The Guardian - UK · Jul 13

TV tonight: Chris Packham’s wondrous series about evolution

His epic exploration starts with the mystery of the African elephant. Plus: top prankster Oobah Butler takes on the housing crisis. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Jul 13

TikTok vs TripAdvisor: An imprecise investigation into which is more reliable for restaurant recommendations

Where do you get your restaurant recommendations? Restaurateurs and chefs maintain word of mouth still means the most — and true, its trustworthiness is usually easiest to accurately gauge — but things have come a long way since finding a date spot meant needling your best mate till they gave…

Evening Standard · Dec 30, 2025

Pat Kane: The internet is a disruptive force we've just accepted into our lives

THE internet exploits us. The internet liberates us. The internet makes us poorer. The internet makes us richer. In truth, it does all these things…

The National (Scotland) · Oct 21, 2023

Amazon documentary makes viewers’ Alexas add knives to shopping carts

Viewers’ home devices activated and followed instructions heard on the documentary, it was claimed

The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2023

The Great Amazon Heist review: Prankster takes on retail giant with bottled urine and knives for kids

Oobah Butler’s show is a good initiation to the new frontier of zany social media hijinks, underscored by a more serious political thesis

The Independent UK · Oct 19, 2023

The Great Amazon Heist review – how a prankster took on the online behemoth and (sort of) won

Oobah Butler’s impishly creative documentary sees him go undercover, list urine on the site and dupe them into funding road repairs. It’s laugh-out-loud funny

The Guardian - UK · Oct 19, 2023

TV tonight: a lovely homage to the Windrush generation

Trevor McDonald, Judi Love and Alesha Dixon pay their respects to the people who energised postwar Britain. Plus, film-maker Oobah Butler’s Amazon exposé. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Oct 19, 2023

‘Knife party!’ The wild documentary showing four-year-olds can buy weapons on Amazon

TV prankster Oobah Butler wants to bring down the world’s biggest retailer – and he’s using his tiny nieces to do it. He talks guilt, going undercover and why staff have to urinate in bottles

The Guardian - UK · Oct 18, 2023

Made-up New York restaurant goes from internet joke to one-night-only reality

The idea behind Mehran’s Steak House might have been cribbed from an earlier faux opening in London six years ago

The Guardian - US · Sep 26, 2023