Hoax Letter Writers - Others

Others

Other prank mail and reviewers include:

  • John Hargrave of Zug.com, who sent a letter to all US senators, posing as a child and asking them for their favorite joke.
  • Bill Geerhart, author of the book Little Billy's Letters (Morrow, 2010)
  • Ed Broth - also possibly the creation of comedian Jerry Seinfeld
  • Robin Cooper who wrote The Timewaster Letters - the creation of Robert Popper.
  • Ted L. Nancy - possibly the creation of comedian Jerry Seinfeld
  • W. Morgan Petty - the nom de plume of Brian Bethell.
  • H. Rochester Sneath - the fictional headmaster of the fictional British public school Selhurst, created by Humphry Berkeley
  • the fictitious Lazlo Toth - the creation of actor/writer Don Novello, who played Father Guido Sarducci on Saturday Night Live.
  • Edna Welthorpe was a prudish middle-aged housewife who was strongly opposed to her creator Joe Orton's plays.
  • James Spence, author of Silly Beggar: The World's Stupidest Begging Letters, wrote absurd comedy emails requesting free items from companies.
  • Bob Servant who swapped emails with Internet Spammers in the book Delete This At Your Peril - the creation of Neil Forsyth

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