Fonejacker

BoingBoing linked to a very funny video from a show in the UK called Fonejacker where an English comedian called Kayvan Novak makes a prank phone call to an electronics store, pretending to be a foreigner who calls DVDs “doovdes” and the electronics company JVC “joovke.” I don’t generally care for the prank call genre, but I laughed out loud with this one. YouTube has a number of Fonejacker clips. There is a comprehensive catalog of them here at Fonejacker.tv. A number of them involve a fake Ugandan trying to fool people into giving their bank account info to him over the phone. Have any of our readers in the UK seen the show? Too funny! Original link via BoingBoing. Video links at YouTube.

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July 25, 2007 at 1:29 pm by Adam Stanhope
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12 comments to "Fonejacker"

moles
July 25th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Yeah! Hilarious show, my Thursday evenings got better
Cuimhne
July 25th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Pretty funny…though I’m surprised he was so rude to a customer! He didn’t even try to explain!
jonno
July 25th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
this uk reader has seen the show, its not bad, but i can see it getting slightly repetative … call me a stick in the mud
Tinderbox
July 25th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
This was just the laugh I needed today.
media_lush
July 25th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
I’ve posted a high quality link in proper widescreen about the hotel spanking one - it’s much better quality than the Youtube one and IMO is the funniest one so far

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/724838/fonejacker_hotel_spanking/
Meggymoo
July 26th, 2007 at 2:59 am
it really is surprising how rude people can be to customers especially over the phone. I love this show its on tonight yay!
Charles
July 26th, 2007 at 4:54 am
Terry Tibbs is the best I’ve seen from this series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HykvKJ1kz0w
Ben
July 26th, 2007 at 8:33 am
I thought that it was going to be another crank call show when it started, just like the horrible prank calls that radio presenters do - but this is really quite genius. Had me laughing out loud a lot!
Christopher
July 27th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Really not funny. The whole pronouncing acronyms thing wasn’t even funny the first time. What are you guys thinking? Check out Strong Bad Emails. Even that is way funnier.
jim
August 9th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
“internet service providings” is the funniest sketch ever in comedy history
louise
September 29th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
http://www.fonejacker.eu
Amanda_
December 16th, 2007 at 7:36 am
I love the Fonejacker, he is a
legend, i love to play with the soundboards.

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