Welcome to “A Look Back,” where we review and celebrate select clips from the overwhelmingly voluminous video catalog and the many splendid works of Stephen T. Colbert over the years.
How do you know you’ve been prank called by Stephen Colbert? Well, the normal surreal course of prank call-ery will apply, albeit with a few highbrow references peppered in (such as the Gettysburg Address.) In this NSFW Look Back we will enjoy a clip of Stephen’s participation in Comedy Central’s Crank Yankers, an early-2000’s show created by Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Corolla, and Daniel Kellison, where actual prank calls performed by real actors/comics were enacted with pleasant-looking puppets.
In Stephen’s appearance on the program, he plays Rob, a dutiful friend who is trying to help his deaf buddy call a phone sex line. I can only imagine what the phone sex worker was thinking as she was pranked by a man who would become one of the most the distinguished and incisive satirists of our time. Right here, he is just a guy who is peculiarly dedicated to broadening his friend’s horizons, shall we say:
I seriously had to stop this video for a moment to recover. A couple of my favorite lines were, “You can yell the Gettysburg Address, he can’t tell!” and “Can I just say you’re Asian, coz, this is gonna make it go quicker.”
What did you guys think? Sound off in the comments.
A Look Back: Crank Yankers
Welcome to “A Look Back,” where we review and celebrate select clips from the overwhelmingly voluminous video catalog and the many splendid works of Stephen T. Colbert over the years.
How do you know you’ve been prank called by Stephen Colbert? Well, the normal surreal course of prank call-ery will apply, albeit with a few highbrow references peppered in (such as the Gettysburg Address.) In this NSFW Look Back we will enjoy a clip of Stephen’s participation in Comedy Central’s Crank Yankers, an early-2000’s show created by Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Corolla, and Daniel Kellison, where actual prank calls performed by real actors/comics were enacted with pleasant-looking puppets.
In Stephen’s appearance on the program, he plays Rob, a dutiful friend who is trying to help his deaf buddy call a phone sex line. I can only imagine what the phone sex worker was thinking as she was pranked by a man who would become one of the most the distinguished and incisive satirists of our time. Right here, he is just a guy who is peculiarly dedicated to broadening his friend’s horizons, shall we say:
I seriously had to stop this video for a moment to recover. A couple of my favorite lines were, “You can yell the Gettysburg Address, he can’t tell!” and “Can I just say you’re Asian, coz, this is gonna make it go quicker.”
What did you guys think? Sound off in the comments.