![]() Mercer" calls in Recorded and Stand Up Comedy, below. Unsurprisingly, Howard Stern participates in their pranks. They have also pranked celebrities with a fictional radio program they "host" called the "Jack and Rod Show". Sal Governale and Richard Christy, writers for and on-air personalities on The Howard Stern Show, have made numerous prank calls for the show, calling up public-access TV shows, other radio programs and just random people.On Luda's end, his puppet was trying on monocles and top hats, while his manager's puppet was calmly shredding Ludacris' contract, and pressing a Big Red Button marked "In Case of Insane Rapper". ![]() One of the best was rapper Ludacris calling up his manager, claiming he wanted to change his name to "Mr. The performers would do the crank calls, and then a set of puppeteers wielding Hensonesque caricatures of both parties would act out the scene with extra visual gags. Crank Yankers was a Comedy Central TV show which featured puppets re-enacting both sides of genuine prank calls made by the production staff.One of the signature devices of the Irish comedy hip-hop group Rubberbandits.blink-182's song "What's My Age Again?" includes a prank call which is defeated by Caller ID."Weird Al" Yankovic's 1996 parody of TLC's "Waterfalls", "Phony Calls", is not only all about this trope, it incorporates a snippet of one of Bart's phone calls from The Simpsons.Tom Baker, who actually played the Fourth Doctor: He's used this several times, including in prank calls to Sylvester McCoy (the Seventh Doctor), Colin Baker (the Sixth Doctor), Peter Davison (the Fifth Doctor) and. Culshaw is also famous for his scarily accurate impression of the Fourth Doctor from Doctor Who. ![]() The prime minister spotted it pretty quickly. One of the most famous practitioners in the United Kingdom is impressionist Jon Culshaw, mostly but not exclusively on Dead Ringers, He once rang up then Prime Minister Tony Blair live on air and pretended to be William Hague, who was then leader of the opposition.On Freaks and Geeks, because Bill had a history of being Picked Last, he prank called his gym teacher out of frustration and anger.The teaser for a Cheers episode had Woody not falling for a prank call, even though the caller (revealed to be Frasier) tries to explain it to him. ![]()
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