Mind you, on crank yankers, the calls are usually exceptionally stupid, and it takes a real loss of cohesion to fall for some of these (the one about the conservationist trying to get people to defecate less often is a good example). To each his own, but crank phone calling crosses the line to "not hurting anyone," in my opinion. The idea of adding that much annoyance to someone's life, when we all have enough annoyance in our lives to begin with, leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Sorry, King S, but I gotta come down in disgust and loathing over cark phone calls, and crank yankers in general. We'd click off around this point since it was hard to stop laughing (especially when pickled). ROSS: "Can you drop it by the office tommorow? I NEED IT!" HA HA HA, I'll get them!! I NEED THAT TAPE!" ROSS:"YOU HAVE A TAPE!! Good, some jerk has been harassing be and I need to get a tape to campus security. US(sheepishly):"Uh yes, someone called, but I don't think it was my TA, I mean your not my TA, I'm not sure what's " ROSS"Hello- you have a message on your machine!" This was to a machine since by the time we were checking Ross didn't directly answer calls US:"Hello, I'm trying to get a hold of Ross, he left a massage on my machine saying he was my physics TA" These conversations would be rather like: Periodically we would call Ross himself to gauge our progress. Pretty much any time a bunch of our coterie was together drinking such calls would be made. This must have been done several dozen if not hundreds of time. " We would sometimes change the class in question, but you get the picture. I'm busy most of the time so please call after 10 PM. I'm your physics TA, and it is URGENT that you call be back. If we got one we would leave a message "Hello this is Ross. We would call the freshlings and hope for an answering machine. Given that freshlings are usually damned naive, they were the perfect tools. what we did was use the campus directory and call random freshlings. We were a more sly bunch of drunks than that. Campus police would go after that, especially if it were a repeat job. You see we did not prank call our new friend Ross. He called the organization back and they, stupidly, gave my buddy Ross' phone number. Well he and I went trekking out to find this picnic. This being college, you would swoop down on stuff like that like a vulture. You see a buddy of mine back in the college days saw a poster that advertised a free picnic, he then called the organization in question to get details. What about you? Do you like Crank Yankers? Do you have any crank phone calls you ever did that you want to brag about?īest prank call I know of was actually a series, or rather a dedicated plot to drive a man insane. In fact I seem to remember a summer between 8th and 9th grade of doing calls almost weekly. Though I doubt he ever did, I used to chuckle at thoughts of some old-timer ripping up his basement floor looking for hidden nazi gold. I told this guy he had the loot in his basement, under his floor. When he answered I pretended I was a german named Ernst Zell (Marathon Man) and that I was awaiting a huge delivery of nazi gold. One of my favorites was calling up a guy named Frank Abel. Were any of you crankers? Me and my friends were, big time. The result is, in my opinion, comedy gold. For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, Crank Yankers is a show where they get comedians to make real prank calls to people and they then reenact those calls with puppets. Incidentally, my favorite “Yankers” are Bobby Fletcher and Tony Deloge (Super Dave Osborne). Being a fan of the prank phone call from wayyy back in my childhood, I think it was a fantastic idea for a show. ET/PT, following the season 23 premiere of South Park.I am really enjoying that Comedy Central Show “Crank Yankers”. Yang, and Derek Waters.Ĭrank Yankers kicks off an all-new season on September 25 th at 10:30 p.m. Birchum and more, with voice talent including, but not limited to, Adam Carolla, Arturo Castro, Will Forte, Nikki Glaser, David Alan Grier, Kathy Griffin, Tiffany Haddish, Lil Rel Howery, Abbi Jacobson, Jimmy Kimmel, Nick Kroll, Natasha Leggero, Thomas Lennon, Demetri Martin, Tracy Morgan, Bobby Moynihan, Kevin Nealon, Adam Pally, Chelsea Peretti, Aubrey Plaza, Jeff Ross, Tony Barbieri, Paul Scheer, Iliza Shlesinger, Sarah Silverman, Jimmy O. Season 5 will feature beloved characters such as Spoonie Luv, Elmer Higgins, Niles Standish, Bobby Fletcher, The Truth, Terrence Catheter, Mr. Yankerville’s puppet citizens – voiced by celebrities and stand-up comedians – make real calls to real people, whether they like it or not. The classic prank call show Crank Yankers returns this September to Comedy Central.Ĭreated by Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Carolla and Daniel Kellison, Crank Yankers makes all the crank phone calls you wish you’d made when you were a kid.
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