I am - they are so fake.

Considering they are fake, make up like half the show, and are constantly replayed, YES.

the crank calls are the one thing on the show that has consistently brought me to laughter.

so you're saying there's no Santa Claus?

the calls are grrrreat........but even if it wasnt a prank call i like RJ's from the other day the best :D

i love seeing the retard brigade posting and declaring the calls are faked and staged........i am so superior to them and their limited conspiracy theorist mindsets. :hw:

i love seeing the retard brigade posting and declaring the calls are faked and staged........i am so superior to them and their limited conspiracy theorist mindsets. :hw:

what he said :hhh:

Not of the concept, perhaps of the quantity

Calling cable access is to easy.Go for harder targets.Chinese Confusion was a good one
More like that

or the car salesmen.......i like when he calls the guys and says your going to get a large amount of money if your cousins :D

are the calls fake? they seem real to me, how much editing do they do to the calls?

Real or fake, overdone,over played .Sal and Richard are some Goofy Fucks.


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no but I am sick of PRANK calls

no

Only the bad ones

i think there great, they make me laugh so hard. keep it up sal and richard!!!!!

too many too often. that is all

prank calls are a lost art...............and i love them

I've done a thread on this before -- many of the calls are fake. Listen closely and you hear the same actors over and over. The "turbin is dirty" guy is in other calls, as is the woman who played the clown ETM insults.

NOT ALL are fake, but enough to annoy me. Just stick to real alls, guys!

just the fake ones.............

I'm just tired of lazy shows & when you get a bunch of these shit calls throughout the show almost everyday, it's ( usually ) not funny & it's just Filler to move the show along faster without much effort so they can get out of there.

yea,i like to get the price of the wheelbarrow......

Every day there's a HOWARD TV IS GREAT call.

cool once in awhile but there getting boring I change the channel when most of then come on

I love them especially Richard and Sal. I think there better than Jenks

Real or fake, overdone,over played .Sal and Richard are some Goofy Fucks.


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I'm just tired of lazy shows & when you get a bunch of these shit calls throughout the show almost everyday, it's ( usually ) not funny & it's just Filler to move the show along faster without much effort so they can get out of there. :bigup:

I am - they are so fake.

Fake or real, who gives a crap?

The point is, they're fucking BORING.

one on now; I want to scream! :bigangry:

The Tracy Morgan/Old coughing lady was definitely staged. That's the same old lady from the Mr. T crank call.

90% of them are great....they all cant be winners....

enough Jack & Rod already, they were never funny...."my turbin" was an instant classic, but the other calls have blown lately...

i like the ones where they use sulu's voice...
him calling the hillbilly was classic
"OH MY GODDDD"

I love the calls. Keep them coming

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i love seeing the retard brigade posting and declaring the calls are faked and staged........i am so superior to them and their limited conspiracy theorist mindsets. :hw:

Not all the calls are staged. I would say about 60% of them are. If you can't pick the staged ones, then you're just not a prank call aficionado. It's not your fault.

I've been listening to prank calls ever since Tube Bar...I can tell. And it seems like a lot of other people here can as well.

I just think there are a few too many of them. Especially as Artie pointed out when they use the same premise over and over again. Once or twice is great, 10 of the same concept gets old and predictable.

It seems like we have to sit through quite a few mediorce calls to get to the home run calls. I wish the calls would be limited to once or twice a week so that only the best of the best get played.

I'm a fan of them... I especially like The Jack and Rod segments.

I'm sick of Sal and Richard in general. And their calls are nowhere near as good as Ned's anyway.

Fake or not (and I reckon many are fake) they are mostly dull, unfunny shit, the sort of crap you'd expect from your local morning Zoo. Howard loves them because they are an easy source of filler. As soon as say, Crazy Alice is mentioned - out come 10 phony phone calls and song paradies everyone has heard a billion times. We get though all that and then a caller will mention Riley and Howard will methodically go through every fucking Riley phone call and song he has access to (i believe they are on the I-have-half-a-billion-dollars-and-frankly-have-lost-my-enthusiam preview page in blue). Before you know it it's time for a break... buffered by more played-to-death calls.

I'm sorry but I just don't like the Sal/Richard crank calls. I don't think they are funny and sometimes cross the line into being mean spirited. I liked it back in the day when we'd hear them every once in a while. When Janks would call in that play some of his calls. They wouldn't be replayed constantly like they are now. Real or fake I don't care just make me laugh and Sal/Richard rarely do that.

Less quantity, More quality.

Actually, I love the prank calls. What I dont like is being force fed commercials when I am PAYING to hear the show. I also dont like the fact they seem to take a vacation every 5 weeks. If it wasnt for classic rewind ( where I go everytime those stupid commercials start) , I would have already canceled Sirius.

They calls would be better if we only got a few of them every once in a while but they seem to be the main show filler. I can't believe how everything is repeated over and over.

The Tracy Morgan/Old coughing lady was definitely staged. That's the same old lady from the Mr. T crank call.

Calling the same person more than once makes them fake?

I guess the public access calls are phoney under that guise.

No..these are the funniest bits of the show!!!!

I doubt the calls are fake for one thing. Second I do get tired of hearing the same one's over and over. But when I hear them for the first time, they are funny.

They are great the first time you hear them. Thats it! Stop replaying the shit out of them!!!

Actually, I love the prank calls. What I dont like is being force fed commercials when I am PAYING to hear the show. I also dont like the fact they seem to take a vacation every 5 weeks. If it wasnt for classic rewind ( where I go everytime those stupid commercials start) , I would have already canceled Sirius.

Well they GOTTA have commercials on a live talk show once in a while. The guys are gonna need to take a piss at some point. The commercial breaks are really short tho, so really it just gives them a chance to do that and get back to the show. It's not like the old 20-minute FM breaks.

Real or fake they are played out
Same as the Jack and Rod bits ... Stern's pointing out that every jack and rod bit was the same identical premise was a riot though.

Cranking public access is very generic, the jack and rod show is a little better but I expect more from stern.

They are great the first time you hear them. Thats it! Stop replaying the shit out of them!!!

most are funny the first time............but, yes, you're right. then howard kills them (as he does with song parodies).

I'm sick of Sal and Richard in general.

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Yes

Prank calls lose their effect when they are played too often or they are too similar to previously overplayed prank calls. A great prank call is a gem, a poor prank call is annoying and a waste of time. Make the calls, shitcan the bad ones, and play the great ones on a limited basis.

I am - they are so fake.


90% of the Sal and Richard ones suck. Done by a professional phony calls can be great.

I like the call where they are talking through the relay operator those are funny. Also I love the call with Gary the Retard calling information for the # for 1800Flowers. I don't like Jack and Rod...

I like the phone calls with the voice clips like Gilbert, Crazy Alice, etc. but I don't really like the ones where Sal or Richard call and just do the same thing over and over again. They can be funny at times but usually it gets annoying.

Never-that shit is comedy gold. Not as good as “I see OJ” but still holds its own.

I miss the media jamming pranks done by people like Captain Janks, King of Cable, Ponce de la Phone, etc. I wonder if the prankers stopped, or if Howard made a choice not to play the calls anymore, or what.

not even a little funny

Considering they are fake, make up like half the show, and are constantly replayed, YES.

every once and awhile would be OK, but in every bumper not so much

The calls are played at nauseum lately. If played everyday, they lose their shock value (much like the Sybian).

I realize why the calls are played so much at the current time. Much like the Howard 100 News and John Hein coming in every day to discuss what's going to be on the news and the Wrap Up Show, respectively, it's filler material.

They do the Jack and Rod stuff because there's consent from the "guests" from the beginning. It's an easy way to get around having to call back afterwards.

I get very bored with the "interruption" calls after hearing them a couple times.

Certain calls like "I'm telling Carl!", "Nigga love sweetening", and the Public Access ones crack me up even if I've heard them a hundred times.

They need to branch out a bit and try some different concepts. Jack and Rod with an a tape interrupting the guest every time they speak is getting old.

It is now illegal to tape a phone conversation. If you are taping somebody over the phone, you must let them know BEFORE the call and not after. The calls have to be fake by law.

That being said, I like them but I don't like how Howard uses them as filler. Either last Tuesday or Wednesday it seemed like at least 2 hrs of calls.

I've often wondered about the legality of some of the prank calls; back in the day, most of these would be called "obscene phone calls", and would be criminal behavior. Since many of them sound fairly authentic, I wonder how they get away with it... Do they call the people up later and tell them they can have some money if they'll sign a release, and that it's just a gag??? Maybe I'm naive, but I suspect that if I started calling old ladies and playing "Can I stick my finger in your ass?" sound bytes, I'd be getting a visit from the Po-Leece soon after.

I can't believe they have a full time staff doing phoney phone calls, the production values suck.
has anyone heard the parodies manson or Ned do. Howard is supposed to be number one. and he hires a couple of guys who do sub par parodies..thank god for Dan the song parody man/

I've often wondered about the legality of some of the prank calls; back in the day, most of these would be called "obscene phone calls", and would be criminal behavior. Since many of them sound fairly authentic, I wonder how they get away with it... Do they call the people up later and tell them they can have some money if they'll sign a release, and that it's just a gag??? Maybe I'm naive, but I suspect that if I started calling old ladies and playing "Can I stick my finger in your ass?" sound bytes, I'd be getting a visit from the Po-Leece soon after.

You used to be allowed to call them afterwards and it would be fine, but that is illegal now. You must let them know beforehand.

I love the prank calls. If they are fake, that sucks.

the crank calls are funniest thing on the show

i love seeing the retard brigade posting and declaring the calls are faked and staged........i am so superior to them and their limited conspiracy theorist mindsets. :hw:

ditto

I've often wondered about the legality of some of the prank calls; back in the day, most of these would be called "obscene phone calls", and would be criminal behavior. Since many of them sound fairly authentic, I wonder how they get away with it... Do they call the people up later and tell them they can have some money if they'll sign a release, and that it's just a gag??? Maybe I'm naive, but I suspect that if I started calling old ladies and playing "Can I stick my finger in your ass?" sound bytes, I'd be getting a visit from the Po-Leece soon after.

I think that you showed tremendous balls when you were man'd up and claimed the vitriolic e-mail to Mutt as your own, and you apologized.

But with that said, maybe you should stop concerning yourself with "legal" issues. You come off a little paranoid. Just saying.

Every day there's a HOWARD TV IS GREAT call. ....those are soooooo obvious.....always the same "random" caller that seques into the commercial ...it would be less insulting to the listener if Howard & Co. would produce a great HowardTV commercial and play that instead of taking these silly calls from an Intern or whoever is in another studio calling the show!!!...Richard and Sals calls are funny..never get tired of them...but Captain Janks was the BEST prank caller....it's too bad for Janks that the shows he pranked now use E-mail....

The Jack and Rod stuff is pretty stale now. I love it when they harass the public access shows, that shit is the best.

i'm not sick of the crank calls, i'm sick because of Artie

For my own archoives, I record and edit out virtually ALL Richard and Sal's lame parodies and "phony phone calls" — with the exception of the classic "My Turban is Dirty."

Years from now, when Howard has long since retired, I'll be able to play these edited shows and remember them as the "Golden Age of Radio."

(If they're real) I still don't find them funny anymore. There's just something a little pathetic about listening to a millionaire laugh at phone calls made to working class people who are just trying to make a living at some shit job. They're making 6 bucks/hour. The last thing they need are constant phone calls by the lame court jesters to please the spoiled emperor.

The "Captain" calls were always real. It's pretty obvious that Sal and Richard's calls are somewhat staged just like the "Touch Tone Terrorists".

The "Captain" calls were always real. It's pretty obvious that Sal and Richard's calls are somewhat staged just like the "Touch Tone Terrorists".

"Captain" Janks and Morrie ("I see OJ!") were true professionals and their calls will live on as classics.

Richard and Sal's efforts will be relegated to the dumpsters of history (with the exception of "My Turban Is Dirty").

The "Captain" calls were always real. It's pretty obvious that Sal and Richard's calls are somewhat staged just like the "Touch Tone Terrorists".

Janks calls are on an entirely different level. He was the best. And that "I see OJ" call from some other guy was the greatest.

At least Janks was busting the balls of the media - they deserve it. Sal/Richard's calls are just pathetic. We get it, you're irritating deli workers with shitty lives...wow, hilarious.

YES

I'm pretty much sick of Sal and Richard on the show. Their entire act is crap. Artie is of course right, they are hacks, and his comments about there contributions to the show say it all. Calling cable access shows and calling women cunts is high class material for sure. I think Howard can do better. He needs to find a new guy, or two. S and R can make millions doing their brilliant stand up acts....

I'm pretty much sick of Sal and Richard on the show. Their entire act is crap. Artie is of course right, they are hacks, and his comments about there contributions to the show say it all. Calling cable access shows and calling women cunts is high class material for sure. I think Howard can do better. He needs to find a new guy, or two. S and R can make millions doing their brilliant stand up acts....


Uhhhhhhhhhhh, What he said!!! :lol: :lol:

Sick and tired of all their crap!

James Brown ordering flowers? Sal ordering pizza at the train station? Richard sick calling the Pharmacist? Dirt/ODB? Chinese Confusion? Richard and the lady selling stuff? comic gold..no way, keep playing them.


Dirt Dog is not the one to be fucked with....

It was indeed a sad day for me when I found out how much "editing" went into these "prank" calls. :mad:

What else do Sal and Richard do besides making phony phone calls? Besides taking their cocks out, of course...

Yeah they get old after a while.

Richard's are great. Sal's are bad. I am only sick of the ones with Sal's black guy voice or them just yelling out curse words to cable access.

they bore the living fuck outta me,
I switch to music if they start dominating the show, with the exception being when they bust on Sal for his creepy stalker behavior.

DEPENDS ON THE DAY..........

pretty much all of them except for the tv public access ones... I can never get enough of them... as unoriginal or dimwitted as they might be to artie, I f'ing love when they terrorize those shows..

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A version of Chinese Confusion was done first by another comedy show.

For shame Sal.

some are better then others. They could help by making more original calls

It is now illegal to tape a phone conversation. If you are taping somebody over the phone, you must let them know BEFORE the call and not after. The calls have to be fake by law.

That being said, I like them but I don't like how Howard uses them as filler. Either last Tuesday or Wednesday it seemed like at least 2 hrs of calls.

Illegal how and where? Unless recorded over-the-air, as from a cordless phone, it's strictly a "States Rights" issue, and NOT solely under Federal jurisdiction. Each state has completely different laws of consent and whether either or both parties need be informed before or after the call.

I just love it when people make shit up to look important- especially on the internet. You just don't have the first fucking clue what you are talking about. :rolleyes:

Federal law allows recording of phone calls and other electronic communications with the consent of at least one party to the call. A majority of the states and territories have adopted wiretapping statutes based on the federal law, although most also have extended the law to cover in-person conversations. Thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia permit individuals to record conversations to which they are a party without informing the other parties that they are doing so. These laws are referred to as "one-party consent" statutes, and as long as you are a party to the conversation, it is legal for you to record it. (Nevada also has a one-party consent statute, but the state Supreme Court has interpreted it as an all-party rule.)

Twelve states require, under most circumstances, the consent of all parties to a conversation. Those jurisdictions are California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington. Be aware that you will sometimes hear these referred to inaccurately as "two-party consent" laws. If there are more than two people involved in the conversation, all must consent to the taping.

For instance- NY
N.Y. Penal Law §§ 250.00, 250.05: It is a Class E felony to overhear or record a telephonic or telegraphic communication if one is not the sender or receiver, or does not have the consent of either the sender or receiver. It also is a crime for someone not present to overhear or record any conversation or discussion without the consent of at least one party to that conversation.

California is more strict, requiring both parties' consent-
Cal. Penal Code §§ 631, 632: It is a crime in California to intercept or eavesdrop upon any confidential communication, including a telephone call or wire communication, without the consent of all parties.

NJ is more lenient-
N.J. Stat. § 2A:156A-3: Interception of any wire, electronic or oral communication, or disclosure of the contents of such communication by someone having reason to know of the interception, is a crime. The disclosure of intercepted information is not a crime, however, if the contents of the communication have "become public knowledge or public information."

In addition, an interception is legal if the interceptor is a party to the communication, or one of the parties has given prior consent, so long as no criminal or tortious intent is present. Nonetheless, even if a person is a subscriber to a particular telephone, that person cannot consent to the recording of conversations on that telephone to which he is not a party. N.J. Stat. § 2A:156A-4.

So you're full of shit.

I hate the crank calls on the show, as I find them to be incredibly annoying to listen to. And, in general, I am not a huge fan of crank calls, BUT, if properly done, they can be very funny. How about calling people on the show and goofing on them ? If done well, that could be very, very funny ! Imagine a 'private' call by Howie to Ronnie where Howie tells Ronnie that he can't hang out in the studio anymore. Or imagine a 'private' call from Ralph to Howie where Ralph tells Howie that he secretly loves Howie. Or better yet a 'private' call from Dominic to Howie where Dominic breaks the news to Howie that Howie is about to be sued for his entire net worth and that he is likely to lose and be forced into bankruptcy. The potential ideas are near endless.

Calls from the crew that have some writing talent are <mostly> good. The calls from the Wack Pack usually suck - for that matter crank calls including the wack pack usually suck.

so please no more "Blue Iris calls Wendy the Retard and wild antics occur" phone calls

just to many

I love the prank calls. Gives me a lot of ideas for my own prnak calls. At least its entertaining for radio audience unlike a lot of the skits they do which are clearly geared towards HowardTV (Howards next pet).

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Most of them are hysterical but the premise gets old after a while. Artie and Howard were dead on when they were ragging on the "interruption" premise. The only thing negative I see about them is that Sal has developed quite an inflated ego as a result of the calls. I think he thinks they are something only he can do. The reality is, without Richard Christy's hysterical accent and woman voice, the calls would be really bad Jerky Boys calls.

I am tired of when they replay the sameones when they come back from commerical....

Its time for one to RIP the Richard triple talk with the old lady with salad in her mouth.... PLEASE!!! :rolleyes:

There is nothing worse then something they play a couple times a week and they are LONG.

dont you think if they calls were fake, that they would make them funny?

Im Sick of " Hold on let me put Grandma on the Phone " Over done

I'd like to hear more comedy skits and parodies than constant crank calls.
This is why having folks like Billy West on the show were gold. We haven't even had a gay Star Trek skit yet and they have George "Sulu" Takei for God sakes.
They did the Desperate Housewives and Brokeback Mountain bits, but those took months and months.
Didn't skits used to take a couple days to pound out?

Relying on filler bits from "The Boys" becomes a crutch.

i laughed when they had gary the retard call information to get the number for 1-800-flowers.

but i flippin can't stand the interuption bits.

fire sal plz. kthx.

some of the calls are great, but i wish there was more quality control on the show. seems like they just about play every call they do. and sal and richard dont care if a call is funny or not they just want it on the air

no way, love them

Of course I'm not sick of them. The calls are the best thing on radio. They consistently make me laugh. Sal and Richard are great!

I love em.

I like the calls, but lately, they haven't been so great. Perhaps a temporary hold for a month or so?

The calls are great!!

useless with out poll

There should be a limit on how many times they play some of them before they are retired.

I think I have most of them memorized by now...

:rolleyes:

Sal the Broke Stalker

Crank Calls?

I prefer to call them "Phony Phone Calls".

Yes; I am sick of 'em.

some are really over played.

Considering they are fake, make up like half the show, and are constantly replayed, YES.

That about sums up my position.

I'm sick of them, way to many of them

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A version of Chinese Confusion was done first by another comedy show.

For shame Sal.

that was from some time after sal originally did it.

you might get confused because he is ripped off so much.

Come on Guys we all know they ARE fake they ARE over done, they ARE over promoted and they ARE just there to fill time....I honestly switch the channel when he says "Do you want to look at this nude chick or do you want to hear a "Sal and Richard" Prank call and Robin says, "Oh, I would love to hear the call" It's all set up, and that is very sad that the show has gone down that road, VERY produced and many bits that fill time inbtween breaks and so on...

I'm with JoeyBoots on this one. Well maybe the superior part, for him, is a stretch. :D

Yep, repetitive, boring and fake.

with a show that doesn't have the budget for anything,(howard took all the marbles)this is a way to keep costs down. repeat bits.

One more thing, if you think it is bad now, wait till the companies merge.

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The ones to the public access show are definietely fake, they have set up an alternate fake TV studio that broadcasts just so they can setup their fake calls.

Why the fuck would they need to bother with releases and lose calls because people won't sign if the calls are fake?

Love the crank calls. Lately they are the most funny things on the show. Keep em coming! So does the wheelbarrow have two wheels? :D

A prank call, also known as a crank call, hoax call, phony call, or phony phone call is a form of practical joke committed over the telephone. As with all practical jokes, prank calls are generally done for humorous effect, though there is a thin line between humor and harassment, and the person receiving the call may not find it funny. Prank phone calls began to gain an America-wide following over a period of many years, as they gradually became a staple of the obscure and amusing cassette tapes traded amongst musicians, sound engineers, and media traders beginning in the late 1970s. Among the most famous and earliest recorded prank calls are the Tube Bar tapes which centered around Louis "Red" Deutsch, and the Lucius Tate phone calls. Comedian Jerry Lewis was an incorrigible phone prankster, and recordings of his hijinks, dating from the 1960s and possibly earlier, still circulate throughout the country to this day.

What do you mean the calls are fake. WTF?

Fuck Yes!!! there are some funny ones but most of them are mediocre and way overplayed.

They suck IMO

Sadly it is becoming the most origional part of the show now. Except for the calls to the chinese resturants, I really enjoy them. Anything is better than Master Tape theater....

Since someone on the show is mailing it in, I'm not surprised that there are multiple calls played per show.

It's going to be a part of the show for the remaining three years. Zero effort is being put into the show these days. More effort is being put into designing and decorating someone's house.

Enjoy the tapes.