![]() But if you're someone who enjoys a good laugh, even if it's at the sake of someone else, give Crank Yankers a try. Crank Yankers definitely isn't for someone who has a problem with low-brow humor, as most of the jokes do hinge around making fun of other people or toilet humor. ![]() One has to wonder if the people who received these calls ever heard themselves on Comedy Central afterwards and slapped their foreheads in agony. Creators Adam Carolla, Jimmy Kimmel, and Daniel Kellison team up to make the Crank Yankers skits that include real calls to real people and actual businesses. ![]() Kevin Nealon's performance as a man suffering from OCD who is looking to join a dating service and Wanda Sykes who calls someone to try and free her ass from her toilet are two of my personal favorites. Elmer the old man, voiced by Jimmy Kimmel, calls a Xmas tree lot to complain about receiving a gay Xmas tree. Some of the crankers are completely hysterical in their dead-pan delivery of the crank calls. From Crank Yankers c/o The Adam Carolla Show (12-14-2007). Some of the bits are funnier than others of course, but the same thing happens with any type of comedy program with sketches, and it doesn't stop the funny sketches from being fall-on-the-floor-hold-your-buns-in-place funny. Since when are crank calls supposed to have plots? The whole premise of the show is a wide range of comedians call up unsuspecting individuals and crank call them in a variety of hilarious ways, these calls are then acted out with puppets playing the roll of the cranker and the crankee. ![]() How can someone not find this show funny? The complaints about "lack of plotlines" are just ludicrous. ![]()
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