Words matter. These are the best Prank Quotes from famous people such as Ruth B, Kayvan Novak, Nick Kroll, Orson Scott Card, Catherine Bell, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I thought it was a prank. There is no way six different major labels trying to reach out to me. But it was actually happening.
The biggest mistake you can make with a prank show is remove the ‘real’ element, which is the funniest thing.
I came to New York and started doing stand-up and improv, and started auditioning for commercials and voiceovers and stuff. My first job was on a pilot of that prank show called ‘Boiling Points’ on MTV.
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
The main prank that we play with props is for people’s birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face – that’s always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who’s new.
I prank my manager. I tell him I’ve lost my passport, or I’ve lost my case, or I hide his case. He is so gullible, he is the most gullible person ever.
At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don’t. This was a prank, and a silly one. I’m focused on my work.
I actually find prank CDs pretty annoying.
I kind of want to start doing some prank calls.
I have been able to stay clear of the Harry Connick, Jr. prank show but have seen the wrath.
A lot of people have experimented with hidden cameras and magic before. What I do, which I think is different from any other style of prank or hidden camera, is that it’s all fun. It’s back to that kind of fun that ‘Candid Camera’ was. It’s not mean-spirited at all. It’s a joyful kind of play with people.
I’m not a big prank guy, because I don’t like them done to me. I’ve been on movies sets where one guys goes into his trailer, and then people move the stairs, and he comes out of his trailer, and there’s no stairs. That’s not funny! I don’t want to be that guy!
I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.
We never liked prank shows ’cause you feel bad for the people getting pranked. So we came up with the idea of ‘Jokers,’ which spins it upside down.
I ended up doing a lot of prank shows in my life or prank theater, but I always got fairly nervous about doing ’em.
Nobody pulls a prank like George Clooney.
We don’t really consider it a prank show because we’re not pranking other people – we’re throwing each other under the bus.
We’re barely a prank show, in my opinion. We don’t consider it that, we don’t call our stuff pranks. The challenges that we do are more social experiments that put each other in awkward situations.
Well ‘Impractical Jokers’ isn’t really a prank show, because the joke is on us. We make ourselves look like idiots in front of the public. So the public is mostly confused about what is happening.
Youre not exactly going to do a prank on the hardest player at your football club, when you know hes going to give you a wallop.
We didn’t like to do the traditional prank show where we felt bad for people having jokes pulled on them.
There have been prank shows that have been really elaborate, setting up fake car accidents and burglars. For us, we wanted to strip it down completely, didn’t want to do anything that someone else couldn’t do – a lot like the Jerky Boys.
It bothers me when people say ‘shock comic’ or ‘gross-out’ because that was only one type of comedy I did. There was prank comedy. Man-on-the-street-reaction comedy. Visually surreal comedy. But you do something shocking, and that becomes your label.
A few girls would be catty and say that my voice sounded really high, and I sang like a chipmunk, I got a few prank calls about that a few times. But it didn’t really bother me that much. I think I was so focused on music that nothing could break me or get in my way.
There’s a show on Comedy Central that I love called ‘Nathan for You,’ which is kind of a reality show, almost a prank show, where this guy Nathan Fielder goes around helping struggling businesses. He’s so hilarious and so awkward.
Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, ‘These people have too much time on their hands.’ Besides, I don’t want to make some poor assistant clean up someone’s trailer after I’ve filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can’t even think of a good prank.
We’re not trying to make a reality show at all. The show gets described sometimes as a reality show, sometimes as a prank show. I think it’s neither. It’s just about us, and it’s just about us having a platform to be funny and do comedy, really.
Alan Funt was the first hidden-camera magician. It was the playful nature of the way he worked that really inspired me. A lot of prank shows and hidden-camera shows can be a little mean-spirited. Funt was never like that.
The thing that we like about our show is that it’s our take on a kind of format. It’s a hidden camera comedy show where we don’t even call it a ‘prank show’ because we’re made to fool each other and our friends.
I don’t get on the phone and prank people and things like that on the phone with people, no.
When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.
I’ve got to follow in the footsteps of Sacha Baron Cohen and do a prank show, or a film with real elements to it.
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.