The digital revolution has left plenty of once-beloved formats broken and twitching on the floor, from CDs and newspapers to brick-and-mortar retail chains. But one thing that’s remained surprisingly ...

The call goes something like this. The phone rings. And rings again. Finally, what seems to be a younger woman answers. "Hello, this is Pam," says a pleasant-sounding woman, who dutifully gives out ...

Tracy Morgan voices the silk-robe-wearing puppet Spoonie Luv on Wednesday night’s episode of “Crank Yankers,” but the hotel receptionist he prank calls might be on to him. Created by Jimmy Kimmel, ...

This fall, you just might get a prank call from a puppet voiced by Tiffany Haddish. The comedic star is just one of the voices joining Comedy Central’s revival of Crank Yankers, the puppet prank call ...

For sheer juvenile fun, it’s tough to beat the Comedy Central prank call extravaganza “Crank Yankers,” a second season of which debuts Tuesday (9 p.m.). Top comics including creators Jimmy Kimmel and ...

Crank Yankers is one of the dumbest shows on television. Each episode is a reprehensibly lowbrow half-hour, full of infantile jokes and pranks pulled on unsuspecting, innocent crank call victims by ...

Younglings might not fully understand this, not when every cellphone comes equipped with caller ID, but when our telephone used to ring, we always ran the risk of dealing with prank phone calls. Only ...

Winners have won. Losers are probably still stunned. Life, however, beats on. So let the auction of Campaign 2014 begin for a worthy cause. As promised in my Tuesday column, I spent election night ...