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Kip Kedersha (born December 12, 1957), better known as Kipkay, is an American author of how-to videos. [1] [2] [3] As of 2008, Kedersha was the all-time top-grossing Metacafe user, having earned more than $120,000 for his series of instructional videos. [4] The series broadcast on the internet and premiered on August 12, 2007.
His exploits now primarily focus on the candid camera style of pranking, although telemarketing related and other prank calls are still included on occasion. [18] In 2008, Mabe was the Executive Producer, writer, and talent for the CMT ( Country Music Television ) comedy series, Mabe In America .
The original set consisted in three prank calls; in these, the presenter of the show (which itself is known for making prank calls of this nature), called a person named Manuel (original for Manolo), a superintendent of a New York City building. After calling Manuel, "Manolo Cabeza de Huevo", Manolo would react angrily and insult the caller.
In October 2006, Metacafe announced its Producer Rewards [5] program in which video producers were paid for their original content. Through this program, any video that was viewed a minimum of 20,000 times, achieved a VideoRank rating of 3.00 or higher, and did not violate any copyrights or other Metacafe community standards was awarded $5 for every 1,000 U.S. views.
In December 2009, an Argentina news station fell victim to a media prank. Acting on a Facebook link, an investigative reporter believed that the latest trend in underage drinking was tied to a new cocktail mix called Grog XD. Unbeknown to the reporter, the recipe was from the video game The Secret of Monkey Island. [15] [16]
When Andrew Terry asked his then-6-year-old daughter, Abby, to sit in on a virtual job interview, she happily obliged. Little did Abby know, her dad was playing an epic prank that would go viral.
Occasionally, real people with a name that could be interpreted as a funny or vulgar phrase are subject to mockery or parody. [1] For example, Hu Jintao, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, whose surname is pronounced like "who", and former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, whose surname is pronounced like "when", have occasionally been the topic of humor similar to the "Who's ...
British physicist R. V. Jones recorded two early examples of prank calls in his 1978 memoir Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945.The first was by Carl Bosch, a physicist and refugee from Nazi Germany, who in about 1933 persuaded a newspaper journalist that he could see his actions through the telephone (rather than, as was the case, from the window of his laboratory ...