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Ashton and Demi - Near Miss (God I miss Carlin)
Original at procrastibate (WordPress)
• Fri, Aug 7
By procrastibate God doesnt exist because Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore’s flight almost crashed earlier today in Vegas. They took to twitter to give an account of situation. Basically, just after take-off, their private plane’s engine began overheating and they had to make an emergency landing almost...
I was wrong. Ashton Kutcher may be the smartest guy in the pool.
Original at godsofadvertising (WordPress)
• Tue, Aug 4
By SRP The other day I read that over 3 million people follow Ashton Kutcher on Twitter. For some reason (I suppose I was trying to be ironic) I, in turn, twittered: “Over 3 million people follow Ashton Kutchner on Twitter. What does that say about us?” Not Ashton\'s Twitter!
RIALTO CHATTER: Ashton Kutcher Broadway Bound?
Original at Broadway World
• Wed, Jun 17
NY Ashton Kutcher, is best known for playing Michael Kelso in the FOX sitcom That '70s Show. He was the creator, executive producer, and host of the MTV celebrity prank show Punk'd. He is known for his roles in films such as Dude, Where's My Car?, ...
Is charm costly in Cleveland?
Original at Examiner.com
• Tue, Jun 16
I was hoping Ashton Kutcher, now basking in Nikon camera fame, had somehow revived his infamous TV series Punk'd and that maybe my friends were standing behind some velvet curtain, laughing until their stomachs ache. Having lived in New York City and ...
Howie does it
Original at Malaysia Star
• Tue, Jun 16
Malaysia Howie Do It (yes, the title is oh-so-very-original) is very Candid Camera meets Punk'd kind of TV show except that no one is famous and everyone is fooled. The show opens with the live audience going crazy (as though Oprah Winfrey just announced they'd ...
10 Questions for Mario
Original at Rap
• Tue, May 26
CA 6. You recently played a prank on a fan on BET's “Played by Fame.” What's the best prank someone has played on you? The biggest one is when I got Punk'd on MTV. I always said they would never get me. When they got me on “Punk'd,” my pride was gone. ...
TECH HOW TO: Watch free TV on the iPhone
Original at grandforksherald.com
• Sun, May 24
ND Much of the programming on here is obscure, or from other countries, but you can watch classic shows such as "The Lone Ranger" and "Star Trek" or other shows such as "Punk'd." There doesn't appear to be a way to browse through full episodes of shows. ...
Replace your web ads with artwork courtesy of Brooklyn's Steve Lambert
Original at Examiner.com
• Fri, May 22
The Brooklyn-based artist has earned a reputation as the Ashton Kutcher of the prog-academic set, having intellectually Punk'd the ad industry, the Bush administration, and other stalwart institutions over the course of our new millenium. ...
Humor comes naturally at Improv with Havey, Fagan
Original at Tahoe Daily Tribune
• Thu, May 21
CA His quick thinking abilities is what landed him on Ashton Kutcher's reality-based TV show, “Punk'd.” He is so convincing, it's tough to tell when he's being sincere or not. On the big screen, he has appeared in the movies “Internal Affairs” with ...
Nebraska Punk'd Into Ugly License Plate Design
Original at Adrants
• Wed, May 20
KPTM-TV MA Dave Heineman Got Punk'd and an Entire State Was Shamed." You see, four submissions were made to the Governor's office. College Humor saw then and told their vast audience to all vote for the ugliest of the four designs. That design won and is now ...
Room 401 Room 401 (Promotional Trailer)Original at TV.com
• Fri, May 1
MTV brings you a new reality show from Punk'd creators Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg that catches people's reactions as they are presented ... www.tv.com
MTV picks up more 'Nitro' from Johnny Knoxville
Original at Knoxville News Sentinel
• Tue, Apr 28
TN Pranked," which is like "Punk'd" except it's gags pulled from the Internet. -- "Gone Too Far," a look at young people's addictions. -- "Disaster Date," a hidden-camera comedy about bad blind dates, with the unwitting dater getting money as the night ...
Tech Broiler
Original at ZDNet
• Mon, Apr 27
A few weeks ago, via, FaceBook, one of my friends told me about a device from OOMA, a Palo Alto-based VOIP startup company that is most notable for being financed by Ashton Kutcher, star of “Punk'd”, “The '70s Show” and “Dude, Where's My Car? ...
Hoaxing In Hollywood
Original at Forbes
• Tue, Apr 21
NY One of MTV's top performers is Punk'd, which ran for eight seasons beginning in 2003. Ashton Kutcher conceived the show and promised to "make superstars suffer for your pleasure." The show's cameras were there to record celebrity freak-outs, ...
Watch it live: Kutcher vs. CNN race to a million Twitter followers
Original at VentureBeat
• Thu, Apr 16
In this case, it has CNN beating the Punk'd star by a pretty wide margin — a surprise turn of events if you extrapolate the battle out to serious news vs. pop culture fluff. But who wants to read that much into it? At the time of this post, ... Twitter Race to 1 Million Followers: Can Kutcher Beat CNN an...
Punk'd! Local pranks go national thanks to YouTube
Original at Ars Technica
• Wed, Apr 15
MA Party chairman Gerry Scimeca told Talking Points Memo that the episode was an "Internet prank" and that "it's unfortunate but there are enough depraved people out there who will do this." Those "depraved" pranksters include New York's Improv Everywhere ...
How To: Punk'd - By Kevin HoOriginal at YouTube
• Sun, Mar 29
By rss@youtube.com (SpongeTricks) Author: SpongeTricks Keywords: kevin ho sponge tricks trick card magic magics cards punk'd punk tutorial Added: March 29, 2009
The Call Is Coming From Inside Punk'd
Original at A.V. Club
• Tue, Mar 10
by Amelie Gillette March 10, 2009 Justin Timberlake is the executive producer of a new show on MTV called The Phone. In case you're wondering how Timberlake found the time to produce a television show in between approving rivets for his jeans line, ...
Teen ice cream scoopers looking up to journalists: Am I on Candid Camera or Punk'd?
Original at darrengarnick (WordPress)
• Wed, Feb 18
By cultureschlock The teen’s syrupy earnestness and smooth delivery immediately struck me as camouflaged sarcasm. Was I on Candid Camera or MTV’s Punk’d? When did I get to meet Alan Funt or Ashton Kutcher?
Kobe punks Knicks at the Garden
Original at New York Daily News
• Tue, Feb 3
NY - Kobe probably though he was being "Punk'd" by Ashton Kutcher. (As it turns out, James Dolan was being taken for a ride.) Kobe of course stayed in Los ...
Ashton And Demi: Water Bearers
Original at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
• Fri, Jan 30
NY - Ashton Kutcher has teamed up with his wife Demi Moore to deliver sustenance to the construction workers at his neighbors home. Of course, the Punk'd ...
Howie Do It Renewed, Wigmakers Rejoice
Original at Dose.ca
• Fri, Jan 30
Canada - Do you watch Punk'd and think, "Well, this is fine, but I'd prefer it if there were no celebrities"? Well, worry not: Global and NBC have renewed Howie Do ...
Rumer Wills: 'I Used to Fancy Ashton Kutcher'
Original at Showbiz Spy
• Sun, Jan 25
UK - The 19-year-old admits to having a teenage crush on Kutcher, 30 - and even considered the former Punk'd star a heart-throb. She says, "When Ashton came into ...
How To: PUNK'D 001Original at YouTube
• Sat, Jan 24
By rss@youtube.com (Deemantn) how to punk your brother Author: Deemantn Keywords: punkd Added: January 24, 2009
Other Shows: True Beauty
Original at A.V. Club
• Mon, Jan 5
The thing that you should know about True Beauty, well, the thing that ABC really, really wants you to know about it judging by the commercials, is that it is the brainchild of executive producers Ashton Kutcher and Tyra Banks. Evidently, the idea for the show sprung forth fully formed from...
ASHLEY GREENE
Original at Electric New Paper
• Tue, Dec 16
Singapore - Dec 16, 2008 Her first acting gig was on Ashton Kutcher's MTV prank show Punk'd, where she played an underaged clubgoer who got unsuspecting actor Justin Long in trouble ...
Palin Brutally Punk'd by Fake French President Sarkozy - Boing Boing
Original at Boing Boing
• Fri, Nov 7
By Xeni Jardin For those of you who doubt the veracity of this prank, know that these guys have been doing this for ten years and you can find their material everywhere. They've pranked presidents and prime ministers from around the world like Nicolas ...
Palin Brutally Punk'd by Fake French President SarkozyOriginal at Boing Boing
• Sat, Nov 1
By Xeni Jardin The popular Montreal comedy duo Marc-Antoine Audette and Sebastien Trudel, aka "The Masked Avengers" ( Les Justiciers Masqu??s ) are notorious for prank-calling heads of state and celebrities who take themselves a little too seriously. Surely none take themselves so seriously as Sar...
Sarah Palin Gets Punk'd...
Original at Oriole Post
• Sat, Nov 1
By Maryland Orioles' Fan How Sarah Palin could not pick out the subtle clues that this might be a prank call has just showed me she does not have the fitness to be second-in-command. If for some reason she becomes this country's vice president, God help us.
MTV star's fashionably late office videosOriginal at Gawker
• Thu, Oct 16
By Paul Boutin Punk'd host Aston Kutcher showed up at TechCrunch50 last month to put some Web 2.0 spin on a cartoon from his studio, Katalyst Films. Blah Girls, from Kutcher's point of view, is surely a flop, having failed to stay afloat atop Google News and Twitter. But the fake behind-the-scenes clips Kut...
Rachel Marsden
Original at Gawker
• Tue, Sep 9
By Alaska Miller I thought Ashton Kutcher at TechCrunch50 was just some elaborate year-long Punk'd episode. Ooma? Blah Blah Girls? But it turns out it's actually just Michael Arrington's publicity bait! Well today's featured commenter, Rachel Marsden, shares with us a glimpse of her ass-kicking noto...
Knox and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt: Fashionable twins
Original at Styledash
• Sun, Aug 3
By Whit Honea Ashton Kutcher? Did Vanity Fair get Punk'd? Speaking of the Jolie-Pitts, did you know that they had twins? It's true! Continue reading Knox and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt: Fashionable twins. Permalink | Email this | Comments.
Jill Wagner's new show is summer hit!
Original at That IMTA Blog
• Fri, Jul 18
By noreply@blogger.com (IMTA) Jill competed at IMTA in Los Angeles in 2001 where she won Female Model of the Year. Many people know Jill as the Lincoln Mercury car girl as she has done many ad campaigns for the auto giant. She has a brand new Mercury commercial playing nation-wide! She played an operative on fellow IMTA alum...
Chris Rock Punk'd in South Africa (via Entertainment Tonight)
Original at Fafarazzi.com
• Sun, Jun 8
Comedian CHRIS ROCK, who is on a "No Apologies" tour in South Africa, was the target of a practical joke on Saturday even more shocking than those that ASHTON KUTCHER - Check out the post & scoring at Fafarazzi.com ...
Ashton, I'm Sorry, But I Ran Out Of AltoidsOriginal at Gawker
• Fri, May 30
By Douglas Reinhardt Demi Moore attempted to kiss her husband, Ashton Kutcher, outside of LAX on Thursday night, but the Punk'd star pulled away. According to spies on the scene, Kutcher told Moore that she had some fairly lethal breath. Moore checked her purse for mints, but she was fresh out. Kutcher explained...
Ashton, I'm Sorry, But I Ran Out Of AltoidsOriginal at Defamer
• Fri, May 30
By Douglas Reinhardt Demi Moore attempted to kiss her husband, Ashton Kutcher, outside of LAX on Thursday night, but the Punk'd star pulled away. According to spies on the scene, Kutcher told Moore that she had some fairly lethal breath. Moore checked her purse for mints, but she was fresh out. Kutcher explained...
Jennifer Aniston's Wedding
Original at I'm Bringing Blogging Back
• Thu, May 22
By Pop Culture You thought this was Jennifer Aniston's actual wedding. Well you just got IBBB Punk'd. Take that Kutcher! Anyway, devoted IBBB reader, Kelly (aka Irish Stacey), was kind enough to send one of her friends out into a fake snowstorm in ...
Ashton Doesn't "Punk" His Co-Stars
Original at ExpoSay
• Tue, May 6
Ashton Kutcher refuses to "punk" his movie co-stars. The 30-year-old star - who plays practical jokes on fellow celebrities for his MTV show 'Punk'd' - won't target his colleagues because he is afraid of being blacklisted in Hollywood.
Hollywood "Stars" Punk'd Into Going to Scarlet TV Premiere [Lg Tv]
Original at Gizmodo
• Wed, Apr 30
By Jason Chen We weren't the only ones fooled by LG's Scarlet TV that masqueraded as a TV series. LG managed to convince Hollywood's red carpet-loving "starlets" to come out as well, thinking that it was for the premiere of some show made by a ...
Punk'd Season 4
Original at BitTorrent Results
• Thu, Nov 1
Crazed fans, world tours and paparazzi are the easy part of being famous. Getting Punk’d by Ashton, now that’s the hard part. Just ask Eva Longoria when she is stopped by the cops, or Andy Roddick when he gets stuck on his way to an interview, or Ashlee Simpson after she accidently ruins an art g...
OfficeMax shops 'Schooled' to CW - Variety
Original at Variety
• Wed, Jul 25
OfficeMax shops 'Schooled' to CW - Hourlong program's essentially "Punk'd" for middle schoolers, and tricks students at New Jersey's New Milford High School into believing their school is ...
Iverson calls lawsuit a get-rich-quick scheme - SI.com
Original at SI.com
• Mon, Jul 2
Iverson calls lawsuit a get-rich-quick scheme - He showed the jury a copy of a 2005 episode of the MTV show "Punk'd'' in which Terrance Williams, one of Kane's friends, handled personal security issues ...
KANYE WEST GETS PUNK'D ON NEW CD: Artist reportedly recruits dance ...
Original at Eurweb.com
• Tue, May 29
Looking to break even more musical boundaries on his forthcoming album "Graduation," Kanye West has reportedly tapped a sample from Paris house DJ team Daft Punk for one of his new tracks.
John Cena Punk'd, Chris Benoit, CM Punk, Maria & More - Wrestling-Edge.com
Original at Wrestling-Edge.com
• Tue, May 29
John Cena Punk'd, Chris Benoit, CM Punk, Maria & More TX - WWE Champion John Cena will be appearing on the season finale of MTV’s Punk’d tonight at 9pm. Cena is the victim of a practical joke. ...
TV Review: Adventures in HollyHood
Original at Blogcritics
• Sat, Apr 7
By Richard Thompson So, this is what it feels like to be Punk'd? That perhaps explains why the first episode of HollyHood felt like a 30-minute practical joke on Punk'd, except that Ashton Kutcher didn't come out at the end laughing. He should have.
TV Review: Adventures in HollyHood
Original at Blogcritics
• Sat, Apr 7
By Richard Thompson So, this is what it feels like to be Punk'd?The minds of MTV's Punk'd are the conspirators behind Adventures in HollyHood (MTV, Thursdays, 10PM ET/PT), a "reality" show that portends to show how Memphis's own Three 6 Mafia tried to capitalize on their enhanced fame after becoming the fir...
Marathon kicks off final 'Punk'd' season - Cincinnati Enquirer
Original at Cincinnati Post
• Thu, Mar 29
Marathon kicks off final 'Punk'd' season Cincinnati Enquirer, OH - Mar 29, 2007 Ashton Kutcher's popular prank show, "Punk'd," is coming to an end after eight seasons on MTV. "Punk'd" is a version of the old "Candid Camera" that preys ...
Kutcher's Punk'd gets the boot (News Interactive)
Original at NEWS.com.au
• Wed, Mar 28
DEMI Moore's hubby Ashton Kutcher has called time on his hidden camera show Punk'd after eight series of fooling Hollywood stars.
Kutcher's MTV show to end - Canton Repository (subscription)
Original at Canton Repository
• Wed, Mar 28
Kutcher's MTV show to end subscription), OH - Mar 28, 2007 Ashton Kutcher's popular prank show, "Punk'd," is coming to an end after eight seasons on MTV. The final season premieres April 10, but all eight new ...
Opinion: Romenesko: Punk'd?, Knight Ridder Bids, Blaming Victims and More This Week in Media
Original at Poynter.org
• Thu, Mar 9
By Poynter Institute Jim Romenesko, Punk'd? Rick Edmonds on Knight Ridder bids and Google's legal battles Scott Libin on blaming victims and untold stories David Shedden's daily recap: Academy Awards, abortion, Gordon Parks, church burnings and Edward R. Murrow Romenesko, Punk'd?