I happen to believe that the original Jerky Boys albums are some of the greatest, most ingenious ad-libbed comedy known to humanity. The Comedy Canon does not take them seriously because of their name, or because of the fact that they’re making prank calls – but they WILL be recognized posthumously as being at least as brilliant as the off-script stylings of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
A couple of days ago, The Smoking Gun posted this piece about a far more sinister prank call organization. These guys have “accomplished” things that would make the Jerky Boys call the FBI – In the course of their prank calls, they have successfully convinced their victims to:
-Get naked in the street and urinate on each other
-Drink urine
-Evacuate buildings and break windows
-cry
Go and listen to their prank calls, especially the “epic” KFC urination one, and then come back.
Omnipotent youth, I need you to check me on this:
I do not find this shit funny – I think it’s revolting and fucking scary. I can recognize that it’s “impressive” in the same way that it’s “impressive” that Jim Jones got a thousand people to commit suicide, but holy christ it makes me want to vomit.
Think I’m just gettin old?
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You’re old – this is lulz
08.06.09 at 8:18 am
When they got that woman to break her windows and the TV I tried really hard not to laugh. God I feel so dirty…
08.06.09 at 8:23 am
welcome to internet
08.06.09 at 8:27 am
the problem with always crying wolf is that its impossible to tell if youre being legit with statements like “(the jerky boys) WILL be recognized posthumously as being at least as brilliant as the off-script stylings of Curb Your Enthusiasm.” just sayin..
08.06.09 at 9:01 am
Crying wolf? Nobody read blognigger’s post – they saw the headline and read bits below so they missed the context that he disagreed with those staements – obviously.
08.06.09 at 9:10 am
These calls are massive. If those fools are stupid enough to fall for it then they deserve what they get.
08.06.09 at 9:15 am
I think it was matt sweeny who said ‘you got hustled? welcome to ny’
but in this case it should be ‘you got hustled? welcome to the 21st century’
whatever, its funnier then getting hustled by a corporation or the government
08.06.09 at 9:34 am
It’s evil, but I fail to see why it’s any more evil than the Jerky Boys
08.06.09 at 9:35 am
I’m not a fan of prank calls. I find them incredibly dull to sit through, and the prank caller is almost always some lonely nobody crying out for the world to pay him some attention.
And yeah, blognigger could very well be serious when he says that he likes that horrible faux-Jewish prankster “The Jerky Boys”, but he’s so full of shit half the time that it’s impossible to tell. But who honestly gives a fuck what this prick thinks anymore?
08.06.09 at 9:37 am
The call where “dex” laughs at the woman is spine tingling. I get horror movie chills when he says, you just drank his URRRIINNNNNNE.
08.06.09 at 9:41 am
Blognigger is famous on twitter but what are ya gonna do NOW that twitter’s down??? MWA HA HA betcha wish ya had real friends.
08.06.09 at 9:59 am
not me up there.
08.06.09 at 10:59 am
jerky boys are funny
08.06.09 at 11:08 am
this is on par with that dude from Florida who would call up fast food restaurants around the nation pretending to be a cop and get managers to strip search underage female employees and make them do jumping jacks naked and shit, and he got so many places to do that McDonald’s started warning their employees about him SPECIFICALLY but even after that he still got like ten more places to do it
anyone know that dude’s name?
08.06.09 at 11:20 am
Those people were just winding their shitty KFC filled day out, hoping some regular bad shit didn’t come their way. Then they had to get pissed on. I’m usually a fairly cynical person, but this is a bit much.
Also, there should be some sort of rule about not fucking with people when they’re at work. Jobs do a good job of sucking on they’re own. It’s a special kind of asshole that gives them a helping hand.
08.06.09 at 11:43 am
@Badteeth
I first heard about that dude in sociology class. People can be so fucking stupid sometimes. But some people just can’t say no to authority.
Don’t remember the name though. I don’t think they even caught the guy.
08.06.09 at 11:54 am
Jerky Boys
butt nut
sizzle chest
liver lips
fucking love it
08.06.09 at 11:56 am
These pranknet dudes are a little mean-spirited and dim, but they’re not really hurting anyone. They didn’t make these people destroy their own property, and the companies they did damage have plenty of money to fix what broke. getting naked and drinking piss may be humiliating, but no real physical harm came of any of their calls.
The Jerky Boys might use friendlier tactics, but their humor is still on that high school dropout/juggalo level.
Check out Earles and Jensen, or the prank calls on the “Fear of Smell” compilation. Those are funny.
08.06.09 at 12:08 pm
TSG’s blatant attempt at character assassination is pretty weak.
Especially when in the same breath they are also capitalizing on this groups “epic” work.
08.06.09 at 12:10 pm
These motherfuckers are based out of Windsor? I wonder if they are just bored law students or putting in time while they collect EI after being laid off from one of the auto factories. Pretty amazing work none the less.
Doesn’t everybody have a soft spot for prank calls or just plain pranks? The Earles and Jensen calls were pretty hilarious as well.
08.06.09 at 1:35 pm
“Doesn’t everybody have a soft spot for prank calls or just plain pranks?”
Prank calls don’t do it for me, but I did used to enjoy The Tom Green Show. There’s just something wonderful about a grown man wearing a hat made of croissants, walking up to strangers with a microphone and mumbling, “you’re my favourite”. That takes balls.
08.06.09 at 3:49 pm
Wow. All the Pranknet dudes are kiddie perverts. fucking sickos.
One dude raped a 5 year old in a church bathroom during Sunday school. Does it get sicker than that?
These guys should be sentenced to a Federal Penn and take an ass raping daily for life.
08.06.09 at 5:58 pm
prank calls are like so 2008.
08.06.09 at 7:23 pm
I dont like the ‘tone’ of it. (if i could sound any more like a boring old person)
it sounds fucked up. in the same way that i dont have any desire to watch online videos of kids being beat up.
Nerds can be really really fucked up and nasty about what they believe to be funny after having been shitted on all those years in high school. i guess this is like these guys columbine or v-tech event sort of response.
on the other haaaaaannnnnnd…
…in terms of Anarchy, resistance or whatever – the potential for guerilla methods to be used to do good – its very interesting – juuuuusssssst incase we need them if dick cheney or similar starts some kind of skynet corporate machine war take over of us so he can farm little babies so he can suck their brains out through a straw (or whatever it is he fantasises about) – stuff like this – and even the hammer-pants flash-mob phenomenomomenenm, may stupidly and unpredictibly come in handy one day.
i dont think that even made SENSE. no more internet for me.
08.06.09 at 11:25 pm
& i know its so turn-of-the-century but i still like those Bloodninja cyber-sex-chat pranks
http://www.chrudat.com/the_best_cyber_sex.html
08.06.09 at 11:30 pm
the jerky boys are terrible, Longmont Potion Castle people. No need to listen to any other prank calls, ever. “I got a squid on my side.”
08.06.09 at 11:41 pm
i’m a cop, you idiot!
08.07.09 at 10:42 am
best prank call ever: malcolm x stamp.
08.07.09 at 10:43 am
Well this sucks, I was hoping to hear that the Jerky Boys are, in fact, on pcp.
08.07.09 at 1:05 pm