The spirit of The Jerky Boys lives on in these prank calls goofing on right wing media ghouls
Prank calls may never regain the artistic heights they reached during their 1990s peak—an era that saw the form’s zenith with The Jerky Boys putting out CDs filled with manically stupid recordings. Still, the spirit of these telephone mavericks lives on through the internet, where channels like Not Even A Show have identified the most fertile pranking grounds on the modern day: Right wing call-in shows where hateful numbskulls like Ben Shapiro, Sebastian Gorka, and Stefan Molyneux field questions and comments from their listeners.
The latest instance of this is an episode that kicks off with a call into Shapiro’s show to discuss universal healthcare and make a few jabs at the reprehensible conservative pundit in the process. The call begins with “Prank Stallone” advocating for the system from the viewpoint of a Canadian and asks, because Shapiro doesn’t like being told he’s short, if he’s “big enough to ride the rides at Disneyland.” Shapiro makes his patented thinky face then defends continuing to bar universal medical access in America on the basis of some skewed information.
He’s interrupted by another question: “At Thanksgiving dinner, do you sit at the kids’ table or the adults’ table?
“I tend to sit at the adults’ table,” Shapiro responds, in the most humorless fashion possible. He adds, in a gutbuster of a comeback, “But, then again, I have a functioning pre-frontal cortex and I can’t say the same for you.” Shapiro continues to defend his height despite saying he doesn’t care about it, citing his “hot wife” and claiming the caller was “whining about the fact that you’re living in Canada.”
In proper ‘90s shock-jock style, the video also remixes Shapiro’s voice with whacky effects and ends with a animated video for a “Brown Eyed Girl” parody about him shopping at Gap Kids and wearing OshKosh B’gosh.