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Thursday, October 29, 2009

"I wanted to check some prices for your Doovdé" Meet the Fonejacker

You know, Good British humor can sometimes make me wet your pants like nothing else. I mean, English folks can be funny as hell. They can be boring as a tea time as well, but when you think of Monty Python or Little Britain… Man...

Well, turns out that the Brits can also make a fine prank call.

Fonejacker is a British TV show that features a series of crank calls. It’s kinda like the Crank Yankers but with a British twist. It’s all done by this one guy called Kayvan Novak and actually won the Best Comedy Show for 2008 in England.

Here's one of the classic Fonejacker pranks, "I wanted to check some prices for your Doovdé"



This one is pretty educational and can teach you a thing or two about scams:



And Ali G style beatboxing



"Providing the service of faster providing..."



The Fonejacker is available on DVD and on YouTube. Caller ID blocking services are available on http://callerIDfaker.com! What's your next prank?

Thursday, October 15, 2009

20th Anniversary of The Jerky Boys. Spin this Tough Guy!


It’s hard to believe that it has been twenty years since The Jerky Boys, the hands-down masters of the crank call, began releasing their brand of telephone mischief on an unsuspecting public. Passed around as bootleg cassette tapes for several years before the release of their first studio album, the Queens-based comedy duo of Johnny Brennan and the man simply known as Kamal took the world by storm that steamy summer with a crude, but ultimately hilarious comedy style that had serious appeal among boys and young men.



Everyone has their “15 minutes of fame” and the late 80’s and early 90’s certainly provided The Jerky Boys with theirs. Their CDs sold millions and a feature length film starring the pair was greenllit. It certainly looked like the sky was the limit for the Boys and their relentless terrorizing of some of New York’s less intelligent working class men and women.

But all good things eventually come to an end. The Jerky Boys Movie opened and closed with little fanfare – and audiences soon tired of two grown men asking complete strangers if they remembered “their shoes and glasses.”

But for those who love a good prank call, those days will always be remembered – and the first album still stands as a comedy classic. Johnny has since tried his hand at several solo ventures, but none have recreated the magic that we all shared two decades ago…JERKY!



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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Prank Calls 101: Having Fun within Limits


The prank phone call is a staple of our youth. Almost everyone of a certain age can remember the first time their parents left them alone in the house with a working telephone and nothing but time to kill. They would pick up the phone, call a friend or acquaintance and proceed to tell them that they had won a million dollars as part of a sweepstakes promotion. Or maybe pretend to be a school official, and convince a friend that school was to be canceled tomorrow because of a snow day.

But now we’ve grown up and left behind many childish things. But there’s still room in our lives for a little harmless prank call fun.

Here are a few tips to enjoy some classic prank call fun without any dangerous or hurtful repercussions.

  • Don’t be threatening. It is OK to have a little fun with a crank call. But acting in a threatening or violent manner is NEVER acceptable. You can emotionally damage the individual on the other end, and potentially find yourself in trouble with the law. Be funny, but be respectful.
  • Don’t call late at night. Waking someone up in the middle of the night in order to execute a prank call is just cruel. Keep your prank calls limited to daylight or early evening hours
  • Don’t prank call someone at work. For reasons that should be obvious, never prank call someone while they are on the job. It can cost them their job if their employer frowns upon such behavior.
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Friday, October 2, 2009

The True Story behind the Tube Bar Prank Calls

Being a professional prankster takes a lot of work. Some people will spend a lifetime, trying to master this art. People like the Bum Bar Bastards, known for their exquisite work with the Tube Bar prank calls.

The BBB are Jim Davidson and John Elmo, a couple of guys that since the 70’s tare calling the same rotten Tube Bar in Jersey, harassing Louis “Red” Deutsch, asking to call for Joe, “Al Killeu” or Joe Mama or Hugh Jass, Ben Dover and even Moe Lester…

Red would call out the names, some say he was unaware, some say he played along. Anyway, he did it with great charm, shouting at the prankster with profanity and obscene sexual references involving the caller’s mother and a certain “yellow rat bastard.” Here’s a sample, but watch out! It includes Red’s explicit language:



Elmo and Davidson, the two BBBs recorded every call and the tapes became an underground sensation. The tapes are known as the Tube Bar Tapes or the Red Taps and later on were the inspiration for The Simpson’s bartender - Moe Szyslak. If you’re looking for inspiration, the Bastards released the recordings on various CDs and MP3 that are available on their official website and on iTunes.



When you are ready to call the Tube Bar, just log on to Caller ID Faker, put in your number, your fake number and the number you'd wish to prank and hit the button! By the way, is Al Kaseltzer there?