7/28/2023 0 Comments Crank yankers jim bob![]() ![]() We’d sit around in a circle with a dry erase board and hold up jokes during the calls.įlorentine: A lot of the calls were off the top of the head. Then we’d call from a pretty nondescript strip mall in Vegas and we’d start mowing through the businesses. Then we’d think, “It would be funny if this guy was calling some business to apply for a job.” We’d get a list of businesses that we could call in various states that it was legal to call them in. Paste: What was the process of doing a prank call?Ĭarolla: We would figure out what character we’d do, maybe me doing Mr. They would fly us first-class to Las Vegas, they’d put us up in the Bellagio, I’d make prank calls for four hours, then go out to strip clubs in Vegas. I thought everything was going to be like that, and nothing has been since. It’s funny, because Crank Yankers was my first TV job, and it was by far the best experience I’ve ever had in TV. ![]() Paste: How does it feel that the Crank Yankers debut was 15 years ago?įlorentine: Oh yeah, 15 years… Wow. Paste spoke with Carolla and Florentine about Crank Yankers’s 15th anniversary, the art of the perfect prank call and the unaired calls that went too far. Birchum, a crotchety Vietnam War veteran who berated anyone who spoke with him. Carolla, who produced the show with Kimmel, voiced Mr. The show was a huge hit, running for four seasons-three on Comedy Central and one on MTV 2.Ĭrank Yankers featured some of the biggest names in comedy, including Dave Chappelle, Sarah Silverman, Tracy Morgan and Dane Cook (before he became a household name). It’s been 15 years since comedians Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel introduced the world to Crank Yankers, the hilariously offensive show where puppets, voiced by comedians, harass unsuspecting people with prank phone calls. “Maybe there’s a nostalgic feel to them because you can’t do them anymore, says Jim Florentine, one of the stars of Comedy Central’s Crank Yankers and the voice of fan-favorite character Special Ed. They’re the product of a bygone era, and if you were born before the invention of caller ID, they were likely a part of your childhood. If the prank calls make you laugh, then you should be able to appreciate most of the humor in this movie too.There’s something nostalgic about prank phone calls. I can't imagine anyone who's not into the Touch Tone Terrorist prank calls "getting" this movie, so be sure to at least go to the TTT website and listen to all the hilarious prank calls clips. All in all, it was a fun movie and I'm sure I'll see it again. I know it's stupid to complain about the plot in a movie like this, but I'm doing it anyway. It was all fun to watch and I admit that I laughed a lot, but after awhile it seemed like it was just a bunch of bad SNL skits all strung together that would never end. It started out promising as a movie about a bunch of shipping company employees doing wacky things, but eventually went all over the place with each character having their own crazy set of misadventures. And there were a lot of extras, most of them seeming to be plucked from the sketchiest strip clubs available. The 3 main characters did an excellent job on their parts, but all the extras were pretty awful. Every line of the main character's voice was dubbed over and I didn't notice a single discrepancy with the mouth/voice, which was impressive too. For a low budget film, it seems like they spared no expense making this movie look great. I was constantly amazed with the professional looking sets and props. ![]() It was a fun movie to watch and I will definitely be watching it again, but probably never again while I'm completely sober. I was only slightly let down, as I wasn't expecting much from it. I was excited to see the movie and watched it with a few friends this week. Most of their prank calls are brilliant and, just like the Jerky Boys, RePete created some awesome, lovable characters in his calls - Blade, Willie and JimBob. I've been a fan of the Touch Tone Terrorists for more than 10 years now. Fine, okay, I'm exaggerating in the title just a little. ![]()
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