Listening to the first new Jerky Boys album in two decades, I was nearly in tears. But not from laughter. I was sad in that mopey Generation X way where it suddenly hits you that 1990 was 30 years ago ...

Most everyone has made a prank phone call or two. But hardly anyone manages to turn juvenile high jinks into a career. Then there’s 59-year-old Johnny Brennan, who is reviving his antics as half of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The prank call business ain't what it used to be, but The Jerky Boys were able to parlay their heyday into a high-profile ...

You could say that Johnny Brennan, the co-founder of the Jerky Boys — a comedy act whose novel routine consisted of prank phone calls and other zany skits — is working on a comeback. Brennan is headed ...

If you throw on any one of the early tapes from The Jerky Boys, odds are you’re going to have several immediate reactions. The original pioneers of crank phone calls, first, are brash, shocking and, ...

Don't Hang Up, Tough Guy! is a collection of prank calls and improvised skits performed by the Jerky Boys around New York City. Locations included the MTV intern offices, a double-decker bus tour, pay ...

During their ’90s heyday, it was damned near impossible to escape the Jerky Boys. It seemed like the comedy duo’s prank phone call CDs were in constant rotation in every college dorm room. And if you ...

Prank calls may never regain the artistic heights they reached during their 1990s peak—an era that saw the form’s zenith with The Jerky Boys putting out CDs filled with manically stupid recordings.