There may be comic gems in the phone material, but the real heart and comedic soul of "Crank Yankers" comes from the hilarious puppet characters and the town they inhabit. It doesn't take long before you get a sense of Yankerville - twisted, backward, damn funny. They have created Yankerville, a kind of foam puppet soap opera town where many of the same characters will figure in various story lines, acted out through the material generated by prank phone calls. Actually, late '50s, but who's counting? The shtick just needed to be refined.Īnd so Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla, the guys behind Comedy Central's "The Man Show," along with Daniel Kellison, have come up with something ludicrous but clever. Yes, there's a certain genius to it, a devilish American horribleness that makes you laugh even before you've seen it. Fridays), takes the Jerky Boys one step further: prank phone calls played out by puppets. Fresh on the tarnished heels of the Fox network's cancellation of "Greg the Bunny," a series in which foulmouthed puppets lived almost peacefully among humans, Comedy Central has taken up the challenge to fill the gaping cultural gorge. Let this be a warning to the rest of the world as it goes Bollywood on us and tries to steal our culture in every corner of the globe: If one puppet show goes down, you can rest assured there will be another.Īnd so there is. You can't keep filthy, depraved, juvenile puppet shows down.
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