Tag Archives: pranks

Maggie Gallagher’s Facebook hunt for rentable Easter bunnies led to her cell number getting out. As the disappointed caller below notes, “She doesn’t quite take the bait.”

Kimmel told his viewers to record the reactions after unplugging the TV during a critical moment in the game.

It was rather amusing seeing who got taken in.

The media pranksters at TrustoCorp are at it again and have slipped fake versions of Us, People, and OK Magazine onto newsstands in NYC and LA. No details were spared as headlines blasted celebrities and public figures like Lindsey Lohan, Sarah Palin and Donald Trump in hypothetical features of entertaining variants for ever popular gossip magazines such as US, People …

Buzzfeed notes: “Unfortunately this piece of sociopolitical satire might backfire when the Tea Party finds out about it and demands it be permanently installed at every border crossing.”

She has the best accent on television.

Naturally they did this on the hipster-heavy L line. (Via – Gothamist)

A group of pranksters plans to infiltrate teabagger rallies around the country this week and wave signs intending to make the movement look stupid. Too late! And the teabaggers accuse the left of planting misspelled signs already. Jason Levin, creator of Crash The Tea Party, said Monday the group has 65 leaders in major cities across the country who are …

I’m loving this new fad.

(Tipped by JMG reader Peter)

Yesterday I mentioned the porn interruption of the Super Bowl seen by Arizona cable customers. Gizmodo has posted the clip (NSFW), which is rather amusing but definitely not very sexy. (Tipped by JMG reader Tom)

Via Gawker: The Iraq War is over, according to the fake New York Times! This morning a cadre of volunteers has fanned out across New York City to pass out a remarkably good, faux-copy of the Times dated July 4, 2009. They’ve even set up an entire website. Universities to be free! Bike paths to be expanded! Thomas Friedman to …