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The Tube Bar prank calls are a series of prank calls [1] [2] made in the mid-1970s to the Tube Bar in Jersey City, New Jersey, in which Jim Davidson and John Elmo would ask "Red", the proprietor of the bar, if they could speak to various non-existent customers.
British physicist R. V. Jones recorded two early examples of prank calls in his 1978 memoir Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945.The first was by Carl Bosch, a physicist and refugee from Nazi Germany, who in about 1933 persuaded a newspaper journalist that he could see his actions through the telephone (rather than, as was the case, from the window of his laboratory ...
Howard Stern is the person referenced in all of Cipriano's last comments in each of the prank calls, and the Captain Janks alter ego has become a recurring character on Stern's show. [4] Cipriano's national live television airing prank call career began with talk shows; his first call was in 1989, when he telephoned to Larry King's talk show ...
Unexpected John Cena was inspired by a series of telemarketing prank calls aired on the Z Morning Zoo show in 2012 in which the host repeatedly calls an increasingly aggravated woman to try to convince her to buy WWE "Superslam" (an erroneous name for WWE's annual August pay-per-view SummerSlam).
One of his best known pranks of this genre involved convincing a telemarketer that he had inadvertently called the scene of a homicide. [16] [11] [17] He has been featured on Drew & Mike in the Morning on WRIF numerous times and has released three comedy albums of his calls through Virgin Records Nashville. Mabe now operates a YouTube channel ...
until the prank-victim gets frustrated. He makes a cameo in one of Bobby's prank calls, "Let Me Put My Brother on the Phone". In two prank calls of his own (one to a movie theater and one to a video store), Ed reveals that his favorite film is Air Bud. In the video-store call, he works in several references to The Shining. Ed is not present in ...
Brennan began making and recording prank telephone calls in the 1970s, and teamed up with Ahmed, in the late 1980s/early 1990s in their Queens neighborhood. [2] The duo made a number of bootleg tapes of their recorded phone calls that eventually were obtained by New York–based radio personality Howard Stern, who played the duo's tracks on the air.
Longmont Potion Castle (born 1972) [2] is the stage name of a musician and surrealist prank caller from Denver, Colorado who has been active since 1986. The name is also used for most of his prank call albums, and for the project in general. [3] Details about his personal life are scarce, and his real name is kept a secret.