In 2013, the U.S. comedian Sam Hyde conned his way into the speakers’ lineup of a TEDx event at Drexel University by posing as a documentary filmmaker who had shadowed female humanitarian aid workers in Mogadishu, Somalia. Appearing on stage in a red track suit and what appeared to be the breastplate of a Roman centurion Halloween costume, he proceeded not to give a presentation but to deliver a rant. His speech jumped from fictitious research projects (teaching “African villagers” to use iPads