The digital revolution has left plenty of once-beloved formats broken and twitching on the floor, from CDs and newspapers to brick-and-mortar retail chains. But one thing that’s remained surprisingly ...

Tracy Morgan voices the silk-robe-wearing puppet Spoonie Luv on Wednesday night’s episode of “Crank Yankers,” but the hotel receptionist he prank calls might be on to him. Created by Jimmy Kimmel, ...

The year was somewhere between 2002 and 2007. It was before smartphones all but completely eradicated the landline, as well as our sense of privacy and our democracy. In other words, despite caller ID ...

This fall, you just might get a prank call from a puppet voiced by Tiffany Haddish. The comedic star is just one of the voices joining Comedy Central’s revival of Crank Yankers, the puppet prank call ...

CHICAGO — Back in the early 2000s, Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Carolla and Daniel Kellison created “Crank Yankers” on Comedy Central. The show featured real prank calls reenacted by puppets and voiced by ...

Younglings might not fully understand this, not when every cellphone comes equipped with caller ID, but when our telephone used to ring, we always ran the risk of dealing with prank phone calls. Only ...

The mid-’90s through the early-’00s were the Golden Era of prank phone calls as entertainment. Remember the halcyon days of The Jerky Boys, Captain Janks on the Stern show, and Jim Florentine’s ...

The season 6 finale of prank comedy show Crank Yankers, created by Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Carolla, and Daniel Kellison, airs tonight, Wednesday, August 3 at 8 p.m. on Comedy Central. In the show’s city of ...