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December of 2009

 

Rate Mother, dealership shock soldier with 2010 Camaro

Original at Wisconsin Rapids Tribune external link    Fri, Dec 25

I feel like I just got Punk'd," Blackhall said, referring to the MTV practical joke program. Far from it. He was at the center of a two-month-long surprise ... and more »

Rate Gina Adams: She gave me a break that day

Original at Waukegan News Sun external link    Thu, Dec 24

And I, of course, kept looking around furtively for the hidden lenses, figuring I had to be on "Punk'd" or maybe a revival of "Candid Camera" -- pathetic ...

Rate NewsPoliticsPresident Obama Punk'd pal outgoing Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine on ...

Original at New York Daily News external link    Wed, Dec 23

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Tim Kaine got prank-called by the President during a live radio show. "Gov. Kaine, this is actually the President of the United States calling," President ... and more »

Rate How do you define reality TV?

Original at USA Today external link    Tue, Dec 22

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Decades later, reality TV shows such as Ashton Kutcher's Punk'd and the Oxygen Network's Girls Behaving Badly have successfully used Funt's formula. and more »

Rate Ashton Kutcher pays tribute to ex-girlfriend Brittany Murphy

Original at monstersandcritics.com external link    Sun, Dec 20

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Splash News The Punk'd star – who began dating Murphy in 2002 after they met on the set of romantic comedy Just Married – took to his Twitter page after ... and more »

Rate A More Honest Look at TIME Person of the Year Ben Bernanke - Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Original at wallstcheatsheet.com external link    Thu, Dec 17

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Wall St. Cheat Sheet (blog) A More Honest Look at TIME Person of the Year Ben Bernanke Wall St. Cheat Sheet (blog) I must be a complete fool or Jon Stewart has Punk'd us if Bernanke can be said to have done a great job while he denied the existence of a bubble in the ... and more »

Rate 'Susan Boyle Story' Becomes TV Guide Network's Top Special

Original at Broadcasting & Cable external link    Tue, Dec 15

Broadcasting & Cable It also nabbed mtv's celebrity prank show Punk'd. The channel was one of the final bidders for the off-network rights to hbo's Entourage, which ultimately ... and more »

Rate Host of Christmas Presents delights strangers in Bloomfield

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Fri, Dec 11

I thought she was kidding and that I was being Punk'd," said a teary-eyed Lattaker, 54. "It's so hard, juggling everything, but now I can pay for my condo ... and more »

Rate Abel Raises Cain DVD Review

Original at NewsBlaze external link    Thu, Dec 10

The film shows that long before Borat, Punk'd or Girls Behaving Badly, Alan Abel was having fun at the expense of the media by mounting faux schemes ranging ...

Rate Comedian with SL ties to perform at Pisgah lift benefit

Original at The Adirondack Daily Enterprise external link    Thu, Dec 10

He does stand-up comedy; he writes scripts; he produces his own short films and Web series; he's been on TV shows like "Punk'd!," Comedy Central's "Live at ... and more »

Rate First look at Lauren Graham on NBC's Parenthood - TV Squad

Original at TV Squad external link    Wed, Dec 9

First look at Lauren Graham on NBC's Parenthood blog) I still think of him mainly as the guy from Punk'd, so it's interesting to see him on a network drama. He's definitely one to watch, as his storyline will ... and more »

November of 2009

 

Rate The best of the decade: 10 best stories of MMA

Original at Yahoo! Sports external link    Mon, Nov 30

He was on "Dancing with the Stars," is tailed by paparazzi, been "Punk'd" by Ashton Kutcher and voiced a character on "The Simpsons." 9. ... and more »

Rate Punk'd

Original at stuff.co.nz external link    Sun, Nov 29

He'd been the target of some vicious prank phone calls and was hoping to warn the rest of Nelson. "I just thought you should know this guy's been calling me ...

Rate 25 Worst Movies Of 2009 - Starpulse.com

Original at Starpulse.com external link    Fri, Nov 27

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blog) 25 Worst Movies Of 2009 blog) Ashton Kutcher has not made a good movie since … never and has not had a hit since his days as Kelso and as producer on Punk'd. His latest movie Spread (20) ...

Rate George Hill, Gregg Popovich's New Favorite Player, Gets the Point

Original at Bleacher Report external link    Tue, Nov 24

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After the surprise choice, most expected Ashton Kutcher to emerge on TV to tell them they had been Punk'd. No Nikon, no film crews, no Ashton. ... and more »

Rate Ashton Kutcher turns into a Hollywood womanizer

Original at ITN external link    Sat, Nov 21

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Ashton Kutcher is probably best known for hosting MTV entertainment show Punk'd and for his roles in films including The Butterfly Effect, The Guardian and ... and more »

Rate Championship Redux - 12th Fan.com

Original at tamu.scout.com external link    Tue, Nov 17

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12th Fan.com (subscription) Championship Redux 12th Fan.com (subscription) “When he offered me the job, I thought I was on one of two television shows – either Candid Camera or MTV's Punk'd,” Pastner said. ... and more »

Rate Scare Tactics: Season 3, Part 1 Uncensored and Too Hot for TV – DVD Review - Inside Pulse

Original at movies.insidepulse.com external link    Thu, Nov 12

Scare Tactics: Season 3, Part 1 Uncensored and Too Hot for TV – DVD Review Inside Pulse (blog) Whether it be Candid Camera, The Jaime Kennedy Experiment, or Punk'd, they've all had the same premise and that's to pull pranks on unsuspecting celebrities ...

Rate TV Land and TV Guide Network buy 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' reruns

Original at Los Angeles Times Blogs external link    Mon, Nov 9

On TV Guide Network, "Curb" will join reruns of "Ugly Betty" and "Punk'd" as the network continues to buy up second-run fare to augment its live and reality ... and more »

Year 2009

 

Rate I was wrong. Ashton Kutcher may be the smartest guy in the pool.

Original at godsofadvertising (WordPress) external link    Tue, Aug 4

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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!

Rate Howie does it

Original at Malaysia Star external link    Tue, Jun 16

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 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 ...

Rate 10 Questions for Mario

Original at Rap external link    Tue, May 26

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 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. ...

Rate Nebraska Punk'd Into Ugly License Plate Design

Original at Adrants external link    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 ...

Rate Room 401 Room 401 (Promotional Trailer)Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at TV.com external link    Fri, May 1

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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

Rate MTV picks up more 'Nitro' from Johnny Knoxville

Original at Knoxville News Sentinel external link    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 ...

Rate Watch it live: Kutcher vs. CNN race to a million Twitter followers

Original at VentureBeat external link    Thu, Apr 16

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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...

Rate How To: Punk'd - By Kevin HoVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sun, Mar 29

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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

Rate The Call Is Coming From Inside Punk'd

Original at A.V. Club external link    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, ...

Rate Teen ice cream scoopers looking up to journalists: Am I on Candid Camera or Punk'd?

Original at darrengarnick (WordPress) external link    Wed, Feb 18

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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?

Rate Kobe punks Knicks at the Garden

Original at New York Daily News external link    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 ...

Rate How To: PUNK'D 001Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sat, Jan 24

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By rss@youtube.com (Deemantn) how to punk your brother Author: Deemantn Keywords: punkd Added: January 24, 2009

Rate Other Shows: True Beauty

Original at A.V. Club external link    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...

Year 2008

 

Rate ASHLEY GREENE

Original at Electric New Paper external link    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 ...

Rate Palin Brutally Punk'd by Fake French President Sarkozy - Boing Boing

Original at Boing Boing external link    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 ...

Rate Palin Brutally Punk'd by Fake French President SarkozyVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Boing Boing external link    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...

Rate Sarah Palin Gets Punk'd...

Original at Oriole Post external link    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.

Rate MTV star's fashionably late office videosVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Gawker external link    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...

Rate Jill Wagner's new show is summer hit!

Original at That IMTA Blog external link    Fri, Jul 18

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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...

Rate Chris Rock Punk'd in South Africa (via Entertainment Tonight)

Original at Fafarazzi.com external link    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 ...

Rate Ashton, I'm Sorry, But I Ran Out Of AltoidsVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Gawker external link    Fri, May 30

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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...

Rate Ashton Doesn't "Punk" His Co-Stars

Original at ExpoSay external link    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.

Year 2007

 

Rate OfficeMax shops 'Schooled' to CW - Variety

Original at Variety external link    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 ...

Rate KANYE WEST GETS PUNK'D ON NEW CD: Artist reportedly recruits dance ...

Original at Eurweb.com external link    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.

Rate John Cena Punk'd, Chris Benoit, CM Punk, Maria & More - Wrestling-Edge.com

Original at Wrestling-Edge.com external link    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. ...

Rate TV Review: Adventures in HollyHood

Original at Blogcritics external link    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.

Rate TV Review: Adventures in HollyHood

Original at Blogcritics external link    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...

Rate Marathon kicks off final 'Punk'd' season - Cincinnati Enquirer

Original at Cincinnati Post external link    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 ...

Rate Kutcher's Punk'd gets the boot (News Interactive)

Original at NEWS.com.au external link    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.

Rate Kutcher's MTV show to end - Canton Repository (subscription)

Original at Canton Repository external link    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 ...

Year 2006

 

Rate Opinion: Romenesko: Punk'd?, Knight Ridder Bids, Blaming Victims and More This Week in Media

Original at Poynter.org external link    Thu, Mar 9

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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?

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