by Nippy Katz (not his real name) Patriotic Troll of Gather Freedom
Member since:
August 10, 2006

Game: Celebrity Prank Phone Calls

August 02, 2007 03:23 PM EDT (Updated: August 02, 2007 03:25 PM EDT)
views: 58 | comments: 23

I have to admit that I haven't done this since I was 14 or so.  The last time I did it the police came to visit me.  A friend and I called the mother of a kid we didn't like.  I pretended to be the host of some local game show.  I don't remember the details.  Apparently she figured out the source of the call and called the police.  It was a small town so they actually responded.  They showed up at my friend's house and gave us a slap on the wrist. 

When my brother was in high school he had a friend who was seriously into it.  This guy did things like call motels trying to reserve a room pretending to be someone who had a kangaroo or, my favorite, a 50' live redwood tree.  

Now it's your turn.  What celebrity would you like to call?  What would the prank be?

Usual rules:  one prank per comment; thread jacking and digressions encouraged.

 

Celebrity:  CEO of Fisher Price

Prank:  Pretend to  be the owner of an auto painting and plating shop trying to get a contract to strip and repaint the recalled toys.   Do a really stupid accent--the worst Bela Lugosi imitation imaginable.

 

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Comments: 23

I'll have to think about this one for awhile. I can't wait to see what kind of responses everyone else comes up with, though.
~*Jackie Ferrari*~ Aug 2, 2007, 3:33pm EDT
My mind is blank....but I like your prank.

I used to call the funeral homes and ask for Myra Maines....does that count?
mona d. Aug 2, 2007, 3:39pm EDT
(obvious, but still funny)

celebrity: el presidente

prank: pretend to be his proctologist and announce that his brain was discovered during last week's colonoscopy.
♯ ♪ Aug 2, 2007, 3:41pm EDT
I'd love to call up Paris Hilton and tell her her license has been suspended forever and she's in jail for another 30 days... That would be funny!
call up Charles Manson and pretend to be on the Board of Parole and tell him he's been set free. He'd wig out because he knows he wouldn't last a minute on the outside.
Dame Ruth, Chief Executive Elitist D. Aug 2, 2007, 3:54pm EDT
How about a call to your employer telling him you've just received a million-dollar recording contract and you have to leave immediately? I'd do it for you Kappy...just ask.
Lori F. Aug 2, 2007, 3:58pm EDT
There was a radio station in Fort Dodge IA that used to do these prank calls. Kind of like Candid Camera but over the phone. Someone would request the radio station call and pull the prank. This guy calls....his girlfriend just had her appendix out and she was really nervous about the scar and healing.....the guys from the radio station call and tell her that they are with the doctors office and the doctor had accidently left a scapel in her abdomen when he sewed her up....they had her run a refrigerator magnet across her stomach trying to locate the scapel....she was less than amused with the hole thing....she broke up with the guy and sued the radio station.
sharon SugarMomma is a wise woman, Aug 2, 2007, 3:59pm EDT
To GWB - Pretend to be the Chairman of the Board of Halliburton and say "Okay, you can stop the war now, we've made enough money".

I'm no fun - I think I'm in a mood.
Andrea "slackermom" R. Aug 2, 2007, 4:09pm EDT
I laughed out loud for real at your prank. I'll need to give some thought to who and what I'd like to do.
As an attorney I cannot get involved in crimes of moral turpitude.
I just got a really funny email forward about names being called in an airport. I think it was one of the greatest pranks I ever heard. It was the real deal, as far as I could tell. I could email it to you.

I know how to find you, you know.
lynn a. Aug 2, 2007, 5:05pm EDT
You, Nippy. The barbs would be endless. Not me. You. I couldn't think of them that fast.
Heather W. Aug 2, 2007, 6:58pm EDT
I would love to prank the CEO of my company. . . I havent really put much thought into how lol so I'll have to think for a while on this one
Kris M. Aug 2, 2007, 9:37pm EDT
I'd pretend to be the CEO of Jack Daniels Distillery and call Lindsay Lohan to tell her I'm sorry her acting career didn't work out, but she's such a good customer we'll hire her to drive the JD delivery truck.
Rachel D. Aug 2, 2007, 10:19pm EDT
I think I'd pull a Howard Stern and start calling people telling them I was Fartman. I'd probably start with the Vatican. :D
Sandy (Site Psychic™) Knauer Aug 3, 2007, 1:25am EDT
Oh gosh. I returned from lunch one day to find several of my co-workers dancing around my desk anxiously waiting. It seems Edgar Winter called for me while I was out and they couldn't wait to see what he wanted with me.
Mugg Muggles, "The Man With the Jive" Aug 3, 2007, 6:20pm EDT
Sandy- Do you sell tanning lotion?
Mugg Muggles, "The Man With the Jive" Aug 3, 2007, 6:24pm EDT
I'd love to call Big Dick Cheney and tell him that I was the surgeon who replaced the battery in his pacemaker and that I had mistakenly replaced the battery with a defective one and that he probably would be dead in a few minutes. Oops!
Missy Cline Aug 4, 2007, 2:01pm EDT
LOL these are funny. I can't think of anyone right now.
Lilith Dorsey Aug 10, 2007, 4:12pm EDT
You could prank Paris Hilton and say you found her underwear :)

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