Nimrod Kamer

Kamer in 2008

Nimrod Kamer is a satirist, comedy writer/performer and journalist based in London.

Life and career

Kamer's public career started in Israel in 2005, as the Sudoku tutor known as "Captain Sudoku". In 2006, he started writing for the Hebrew-language financial newspaper Globes under editor Roy Arad. He then joined Arad and Joshua Simon to release Maayan, an arts magazine. In 2009, Kamer became social media manager of BIP, a comedy channel owned by Keshet Broadcasting. Under that channel he eventually created comedy shows Michael and I and Jobless Nimrod.

Moving to London in 2011, Kamer started publishing periodically in film and written form on BBC Newsnight, Vice magazine, The Guardian, Wired magazine, Huffington Post, London Evening Standard, and the The Daily Dot. In 2012 he began appearing as himself on UK's Channel 4 show Random Acts alongside Heydon Prowse, as well as on Russia Today news. In September 2013 he presented a Guardian show titled #Thinkfluencer in association with Arte Channel.

Selected spoofs, satires and journalism

Kamer has made several adversarial news films alongside satirical reporting.

In 2006, he visited Egypt and made a documentary titled Girls at the Cairo National Stadium, on female spectators at the Cairo International Stadium, during one of the matches of the Africa Cup of Nations. In the film he focused on the girls in the crowd, which caused the Daily News Egypt to write an article called "Filming Gone Too Far?", about the ethics of filming Egyptian lady fans without permission.

In April 2012, he made a series of prank videos in which he extorted celebrities vis-á-vis vandalising their Wikipedia pages. In May 2012, he posed as a rich man and made "indecent proposals" to celebrities such as Kelly Brook attending the Cannes Film Festival. In April 2012, he appeared in the video series produced by Don't Panic, dressed in an old lord outfit whilst arriving at the House of Lords to claim various expenses (Lords are reimbursed for expenses). He "purchased" land in Scotland, a token amount for £29.99, which presumably made him a de facto lord. In October 2012, Kamer created a fake Obama Kenya birth video to highlight the "Birthers" and Donald Trump's obsession with getting an old 8mm footage of the US President alleged African birth.

During 2013 he created a fake TED Talk with Billie JD Porter to ridicule the TED apparatus and satirise individuals and companies who use Wikipedia for profit. It was embedded on Gawker. In March 2013 he reported on the new "finger hashtag" in Wired magazine. Also in 2013, Kamer filed a Russia Today report, where he asked West Bank Settlers about sweet real estate deals for Jews only.

In June 2014, Nimrod Kamer joined Katharine Hamnett to perform a stunt outside Hackney Town Hall, aiming to make Hackney Mayor Jules Pipe ban all Monsanto round-up herbicides being used in the borough. In July 2014, Kamer travelled to Nassau to investigate a leak by Edward Snowden that suggested the NSA are listening to phone calls made in the Bahamas. He spoke with local ministers, parliament members and attended a local Freedom of Information rally. In December 2014, Business Insider, as well as the Daily Mail reported on Kamer's satirical quest to become the worst rated passenger in Uber's history.

Music

In November 2015, Kamer and German novelist Delilah Jay released a song titled It's A Boy with the hope of representing the United Kingdom in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest 2016. Eurovision news source Wiwibloggs published the story.

Dating show

In 2016 Kamer developed a TV show format titled #DIGIDATING that was produced by ASOS.com. It was billed an internet dating show with backstage drama. Contestants were called 'users' and the picker a 'DigiDiva' [1]. The show was first time a clothing company distributed a dating scheme to connect online customers. [2], [3], [4], [5]