7 posts and columns on prank

The Most Vicious “I Hate My Cable Company” Rant You’ll Ever Read

in Media on May 27, 2011 at 11:07 am PT

“Yelp does not review serial killers, but if they did, his babaganoush would be better than yours, if you both made babaganoush, even if his drugged and murdered people.”
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Viral Video: Sofia Vergara's Punk of Perfection

in News on February 4, 2011 at 1:34 am PT

Let’s cut to the chase: BoomTown adores “Modern Family” actress Sofia Vergara, for her ridonkulously charming comic persona. It’s on full display here in the hidden-camera prank she did for Ellen DeGeneres’s daytime television talk show. Her galloping like a horse will leave you in stitches.

New Facebook Profiles Susceptible to Pranks

in Social on December 10, 2010 at 2:30 pm PT

As part of the new Facebook profile page redesign, users can now have a strip of the five most recently tagged photos of them running under their basic information. Some are having fun with this option, pranking each other to show inappropriate pictures and silly sequences of words.

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Justin Bieber and Li'l Kim?

in News on July 6, 2010 at 10:24 am PT

Hard to say who loves mop-top teen singer Justin Bieber more–squealing little girls or the prank-playing practitioners of cultural anarchy on the Web. Over the weekend, hackers took advantage of a YouTube vulnerability (since fixed) to redirect Bieber-page visitors to porn sites or pop up a message suggesting the lad had expired. Now the Web wags are in the process of stuffing the ballot box in a vote on where Beiber should bring his world tour. Israel was leading the contest until the viral assault; now, if the voters have their way, Bieber will take the stage in front of a baffled audience in North Korea. Justin Bieber and Kim Jong Il–now there’s a photo op.

Prankster Jason Calacanis Talks About His Apple iPad Hoax (Warning: Cute Baby Alert!)

in News on February 1, 2010 at 5:05 am PT

While in Los Angeles for a brief second on Friday, BoomTown motored over to the Brentwood home of puckish entrepreneur Jason Calacanis to talk to him about his prank tweets the night before the introduction of the iPad last week. On Tuesday night before the much hyped launch of the newest device from Apple, Calacanis let loose with a series of over-the-top posts to Twitter, claiming he was a beta tester for the iPad tablet computer–assertions that some in the mostly mainstream media took too seriously. Was it a jump-the-shark moment for journalism?