Crank Yankers

The “JKL” of ABC…Jimmy Kimmel's life

source: Examiner.com

They went on to produce such projects as the puppet phone-prank show, “Crank Yankers,” and the comedy film co-created by Bobcat Goldthwait, “Windy City Heat ...

Published Sun, Aug 23

The Best of: Matt Silverstein and Dave Jeser

source: phillyBurbs.com

 PA The Best of Crank Yankers - CRANK YANKERS finds Kimmel, Carolla, and several of their comedian friends making real prank phone calls to unsuspecting individuals and businesses while puppets act out the scenario on screen. With ample doses of outrageous ...

Published Sun, Jun 14

Laugh master comes to Danbury

source: Danbury News Times

 CT He has a number of TV credits, including "Crank Yankers," which is billed as "television's most beloved prank phone call show" and is now on MTV2. Florentine also won an Emmy for an HBO "Inside the NFL" comedy sketch. Writer Deb Keiser poses a few ...

Published Thu, Mar 19

Notable comics performing in Tampa Bay area

source: Tampabay.com

 FL - Jim Florentine is best known as the voice of some of Crank Yankers' more obnoxious puppet prank callers (belching Bobby Fletcher and Special Ed). ...

Published Wed, Jan 7

Lucy Mangan on the chequered history of phone-prank comedy

source: The Guardian (UK)

The quality prank call, however, looks now like an endangered species. The last great flowering may have been the US Comedy Central show Crank Yankers, which ran for five years until cancelled in 2007, during which it built up a revolving cast of characters - including a 62-year-old psych...

Published Tue, Oct 28

David Alan Grier Seeks to Become Latest Comedy Central Superstar

source: Associated Content

Washington Post  CO - Oct 15, 2008 Chocolate News is technically not Grier's first contribution to the network, as he voiced one of the puppets on the prank phone call show Crank Yankers ... Chocolate News' wants an assorted audience New York Daily News all 37 news articles

Published Wed, Oct 15

Music briefs: Jim Florentine, Rusted Root and Pat Cooper

source: Times Herald-Record

 NY - He's known for his characters Special Ed and Bobby Fletcher on Comedy Central's "Crank Yankers," and released a series of prank-call CDs known as ...

Published Fri, Sep 26

Wanda Sykes — out and proud lesbian

source: Dallas Voice

 TX - Before our interview, I listened to Skyes’ hilarious “Crank Yankers” prank calls: I loved the one where she informs an unsuspecting housewife about her ...

Published Thu, Sep 25