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Cynthetiq · 09-18-2003, 01:52 PM

something along these lines
http://www.rock-is-dead.com/Featured...nks/janks.html

http://www.prankorama.com/janks.html
Captain Janks
The Jerky Boys are the best-selling pranksters of all-time, with over 4 million units sold -- but the most widely heard prankster of all time? That title belongs to Captain Janks, the obsessive Howard Stern fan who pioneered the art of live call-in pranks to radio and TV shows. When Janks started targeting shows like Larry King Live and The Today Show in the early '90s, huge audiences heard him say things like “Do you want to mindmeld with Howard Stern’s penis?" Then, Stern extended the audience even further by repeatedly replaying Janks’ calls on his show.
Janks was inspired by the Tube Bar tapes to make prank calls; in turn, he inspired numerous other Howard Stern fans to start pranking TV and radio shows too. At one point, pranking such shows and mentioning Howard Stern's name during the course of a call became so popular that one episode of The Donnie and Marie Show featured three Stern pranksters in a row (one of whom was Janks) without any prior coordination amongst the three.

As Howard Stern recounts in his book Miss America, Janks would often go to great lengths to perpetrate his calls. "The most elaborate prank Janks ever pulled was when he convinced the producers of the Jerry Lewis telethon that he was Larry King and that he wanted call in live to Jerry during the waning hours of the telethon." To achieve area-code credibility, the Pennsylvania-based Janks first obtained a Los Angeles phone number that forwarded to his actual phone. To convince Lewis' producers that he was indeed a legitimate King employee, Janks even put "King" on the phone at one point -- to reproduce the BLANK in real-time, he simply used King soundbites he'd taped while listening to his show. All in all, hours of preparation went into a call that would last less than a minute: in the final hours of the telethon, Janks-as-King was patched through to Lewis. "Hello, Mr. Lewis, what do you think of Howard Stern, the radio personality?" he asked.

Along with Lewis, Janks has pranked Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, Larry King, Rosie O'Donnell, Ed McMahon, and countless other media figures and celebrities. In 1996, Janks released a CD called King of the Cranks, which he says sold around 250,000 copies. At one point, he used a 900-number to distribute his calls (900-25-JANKS) and issued at least three 90-minute cassettes of his work under the titles Scams O'Plenty, Volumes I, II, and III

09-18-2003, 01:52 PM	#5 (permalink)
Cynthetiq Tilted Cat Head Administrator Location: Manhattan, NY	something along these lines http://www.rock-is-dead.com/Featured...nks/janks.html http://www.prankorama.com/janks.html Captain Janks The Jerky Boys are the best-selling pranksters of all-time, with over 4 million units sold -- but the most widely heard prankster of all time? That title belongs to Captain Janks, the obsessive Howard Stern fan who pioneered the art of live call-in pranks to radio and TV shows. When Janks started targeting shows like Larry King Live and The Today Show in the early '90s, huge audiences heard him say things like “Do you want to mindmeld with Howard Stern’s penis?" Then, Stern extended the audience even further by repeatedly replaying Janks’ calls on his show. Janks was inspired by the Tube Bar tapes to make prank calls; in turn, he inspired numerous other Howard Stern fans to start pranking TV and radio shows too. At one point, pranking such shows and mentioning Howard Stern's name during the course of a call became so popular that one episode of The Donnie and Marie Show featured three Stern pranksters in a row (one of whom was Janks) without any prior coordination amongst the three. As Howard Stern recounts in his book Miss America, Janks would often go to great lengths to perpetrate his calls. "The most elaborate prank Janks ever pulled was when he convinced the producers of the Jerry Lewis telethon that he was Larry King and that he wanted call in live to Jerry during the waning hours of the telethon." To achieve area-code credibility, the Pennsylvania-based Janks first obtained a Los Angeles phone number that forwarded to his actual phone. To convince Lewis' producers that he was indeed a legitimate King employee, Janks even put "King" on the phone at one point -- to reproduce the BLANK in real-time, he simply used King soundbites he'd taped while listening to his show. All in all, hours of preparation went into a call that would last less than a minute: in the final hours of the telethon, Janks-as-King was patched through to Lewis. "Hello, Mr. Lewis, what do you think of Howard Stern, the radio personality?" he asked. Along with Lewis, Janks has pranked Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, Larry King, Rosie O'Donnell, Ed McMahon, and countless other media figures and celebrities. In 1996, Janks released a CD called King of the Cranks, which he says sold around 250,000 copies. At one point, he used a 900-number to distribute his calls (900-25-JANKS) and issued at least three 90-minute cassettes of his work under the titles Scams O'Plenty, Volumes I, II, and III __________________ I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not. What's the best nation in the world? DO-NATION!