Product Description

CRANK YANKERS - SEASON 1 - UNCENSORED features outrageous crank calls from well-known comedians to real people and delivered to viewers through puppets called the "Crank Yankers" who live in the make-believe world called Yankerville. Special guest star voices include Dave Chappelle, Jack Black, Wanda Sykes, Tracy Morgan, Jimmy Kimmel and more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15259 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-09-28
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 253 minutes

Amazon.com
Perhaps the guiltiest of guilty pleasures, Crank Yankers has a way of overcoming one's ethical conflicts about prank phone calls with some very funny examples of the practice. Comic talents Wanda Sykes, Sarah Silverman, Tracy Morgan, Dave Chappelle, and others join the Touchstone Terrorists and musical duo Tenacious D in tormenting innocent people with ridiculous communications. Among the 10 episodes of season 1 is Sykes's outrageous call to an auto mechanic, claiming that someone at the guy's shop defecated in her car. Unlike many of the innocent recipients of Crank Yankers's harassment, the bemused mechanic turns the tables on the crazed woman and goads her into making more ridiculous claims. Elsewhere, a pet shop owner takes a call from an "old woman" (Susie Essman) complaining about her obscene parrot while the bird can be heard calling her "whore" in the background. Other choice moments include an apparently slow-witted comic-book fan (Jordan Rubin) pestering directory assistance for Batman's phone number, a "blind woman" (Lisa Kushell) applying for a job as a stripper (requiring her seeing-eye dog in the act), and a great bit in which a fellow (Denis Leary) convinces a sex-supply store salesman to pretend to be a pizza-delivery man in order to fool Leary's mom. Okay, some of the material in this set is downright cruel, but most of it is relatively harmless, addictive, and occasionally hilarious. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

Won't you join the Crank Yankers tonight?
Back in the day "Crank Yankers" was one of my favorite shows. It used to come on right after SP. It is so funny and clever. My favorite character was none other than Hadassah Guberman (Sarah Silverman.) Hadassah always had the most brilliant things to say (don't be a hog, spare the log.) It's a shame this isn't on TV anymore. It came back last year on MTV2 but didn't last too long. Every once in a while some older eps are added to Comedy Central's Comcast on-demand.

Crank Yankers Not Funny
Please do not waste your money. I could not even force a smile. Every disc was just awful.

Have you ever made a prank all? If you have, then you will love this
I used to make prank calls as a kid, and I have to admit I am jealous of the Crank Yankers. They put so much time and effort into it. They do tons of research, and it is absolutely hilarious. I have a dark sense of humor, and the thing I like the most is how hateful a lot of these calls are. The Crank Yankers are so mean. The characters don't really need a description, it is better to be surprised. The actors who make the calls include Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, Super Dave Osborne, Kevin Nealon, and Jim Florentine plays Special Ed and the extremely rude Bobby Fletcher. My personal favorite calls are the incoming calls where people think they dialed the number for UPS. The Touchtone Terrorists are THE best prank callers, so be sure to check out their CDs if you get a chance. They are just as good, if not better than the Crank Yankers.

If you need a really good laugh, this is exactly what you are looking for.


Special features are interesting. There are 2 un-aired calls, and a 26 minute making of that I enjoyed very much.