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Check Out Kurt Braunohler's Funny Skywriting Prank

Here's a photo from a skywriting prank by the very funny Kurt Braunohler, who co-hosts the live Los Angeles comedy show Hot Tub with his comedy partner Kristen Schaal. Braunohler raised a bunch of money on Kickstarter to hire a skywriter to write the phrase "How do I land?" over Downtown LA, and this photo by Robyn Von Swank captures it wonderfully. The skywriting took place in March and only lasted about 20 minutes according to Braunohler, but Von Swank's picture surfaced online this week and has been racking up millions of views on Reddit.

Check out the full-sized image and a picture from Braunohler's next prank, involving [...]

A Funny Thing: Hayley Bing is Drinking Pee and Taking Names

Hayley Bing was dating a nice boy who happened to be friends with the biggest asshole in the world. One time he gave her a beer that was really his own urine. It got worse, and when it spread to muffins, Hayley hatched a plan for revenge. We won't spoil the big reveal at the end of Hayley's tale, but let's just say she has the last laugh.

You can follow Hayley on Twitter right here, @thehayleybing.

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The Rise and Fall of the Fake @JackNJillMovie Twitter Account

This weekend saw the release of the new Adam Sandler comedy Jack and Jill, Sandler’s cringe-inducing riff on Norbit that’s become one of the most critically-reviled films in years. On Friday, a group of comedians took to Twitter, creating a faux-official account for Jack and Jill under the name @JackNJillMovie, firing off a series of digs at the film disguised as a misguided and desperate promotional campaign. As Friday evening wore on and the collective behind the account posted hundreds of funny jokes at the expense of the movie, @JackNJillMovie had attracted several hundred followers and retweets from everyone from Aziz Ansari to Paul Scheer to TV critic Alan Sepinwall. [...]

Gil Ozeri Is a Professional Fetishist

Gil Ozeri makes amazingly awkward calls to phone sex operators pretending to have ludicrous fetishes. For example: 90's slang. Now, he's working on an album of pranks for Comedy Central and is looking for weirdo fetish ideas. If you've got good ones, email em to him and he'll use the best one for the album.

Watch Amy Poehler Prank Call Seth Meyers on a Talk Show

Seth Meyers was a guest on Bravo's late night show Watch What Happens Live last night, and he got a prank call from his former Weekend Update cohort Amy Poehler. Of course, Poehler calling in resulted in her being asked if she and Tina Fey would like to host the Oscars for what I'm assuming is the 300th time this week.

Mr. Peepers Prankster Revealed

"I thought it would be funny to find out that a Mr. Peepers movie had been written, and it was very serious and pretentious and political, and it had been shelved because of 9/11. Being able to ruin a wonderful script like Being There was just icing on the cake." –Justin Becker, "writer" of the fake Mr. Peepers script, talking about why he did it

Fake Vomit: An Origin Story

Tell me your interest isn't just a little bit piqued: "Have you ever stopped to contemplate the existence of rubber barf? It opens up enough philosophical quandaries to make your head spin. Who would ever think of such a thing? Why would he feel the need to manufacture it?"

A Young Larry David's Friends Pranked Him into Thinking He Was Going to Have a Heart Attack

"We all knew Larry [David] was a hypochondriac… Lenny [Maxwell] was given a book on the theory of type A and B personalities and their correlation to heart attacks. On the inside cover, pretending to be the author, Lenny wrote an inscription that said he had seen Larry's set at the Improvisation, and it was obvious that Larry was both type A and type B, and that he should seek medical attention immediately — he was a ticking time bomb. We mailed the book to LD.

A few nights later Lenny and I were sitting at the Improv bar when the door burst open… Larry ran up to us, holding [...]

Patton Oswalt Explains His King of Queens Prank to Jimmy Fallon

Patton Oswalt took to Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night to promote Young Adult, but more importantly to show a fast-forwarded clip of that time he stood totally still in the background of a King of Queens scene. (The fact that the writers on that show are huge stoners explains a lot of it.) In the second part of the interview (below) Patton describes Young Adult as "the way a romantic comedy would look in real life, which is a stalker horror movie." Weird, I thought I couldn't want to see this movie any more, but now I SO DO.

Betty White's Off Her Rocker, Spray Painting Your SUV

You think Betty's adorable now; just wait until you're watching your car get slowing crushed under a steamroller in the parking lot of Applebee's. According to NBC, the new hidden-camera show Betty White's Off Their Rockers "follows a band of seven senior citizens who make it their mission to play pranks on unsuspecting younger people." Considering most people treat the elderly like idiots made out of glass, we look forward to White's memaws wreaking havoc in the calmest of doctor's waiting rooms, the most silent of DMVs.

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