Awesome Pranks

Norwegian comedy troupe Ylvis messes with the minds of riders with their “voice-activated elevator” prank. The elevator clapper is classic, but Donald Duck gets on our nerves. More here, here and here.

Redditor slapshotten11 lives in the same town as Adam West, aka Batman from the 60’s TV show. Slapshotten11 looked up West in their local phone book and uncovered a hilarious Easter egg.

Basketball legend Bill Russel asks Uncle Drew to get his old team back together to teach the young blood a lesson. Drew’s first recruit is Wes, a tall sharpshooter. Does Wes still have it?

The pranksters from ImprovEverywhere take over the office chair section of a Staples store, and hold a fake board meeting for a non-existant company. Needs more PowerPoint, though.

Biff Henderson is the stage manager for the Late Show with David Letterman but he’s also appeared on the show, including this hilarious bit back in 2001 about testing people’s patience.

Here’s the daring YouTuber LAHWF with another one of his social experiments, aka pranks. Fortunately for him the kids at Brigham Young University are so nice. They even smile when chasing burglars.

The pranksters of Awesomeness TV couldn’t sit idly by while throngs of Apple fans waited anxiously for the iPhone 5. So they did what any troll would: pretended to drop boxes of phones in front of them.

Pilot Ryan Johnson will have no doubts that his wife-to-be stays cool under pressure after the bold stunt he pulled of tricking her into thinking that their plane was not responding before proposing.

(SPOILERS) These guys pull off an epic prank on their mom, playing a modified version of Toy Story 3 where the trash incinerator scene turns out a little differently than the theatrical release.

Behold: the power of marketing. Before the iPhone 5 came out, Jimmy Kimmel went to the streets to ask people what they thought about the new iPhone 5. Except they showed them the iPhone 4S.

A dental patient got the ride of his life when he came in for an appointment in a clinic manned by the Impractical Jokers. He should’ve said “Oh no you didn’t” after they raised him up.

After messing with one unsuspecting elevator rider, Rémi Gaillard is riding the lift once more, and wants to make you an offer you can’t refuse in his latest prank.

Clearly asking for trouble, Roman and Dennis pretend to be taggers, spraying already graffiti-covered walls with a air duster as cops approach – first ready to arrest, then just plain confused.

Sick of seeing the filthy Cheeto-covered mess of a keyboard in a co-worker’s office, one Redditor decided to turn the disgusting grimy thing into a planter while his buddy was out of the office.

(NSFW: Language) A guy’s little brother changes his Facebook page, and finds out the hard way not to mess with big brother, as he makes over his kid bro’s room – as a little girl’s room. (Thanks Timo!)

Now that’s how you break the ice. Blake Grigsby takes the world’s most cliche team building exercise and turns it into a fun way to figure out who to be friends with.

Justin is about to get a rude awakening in this “prank” video. No, it’s not just that he’s going to get startled out of his deep slumber, it’s far worse. You’ll just have to watch it to find out.

Jack Vale messes with a new bunch of unsuspecting marks, abandoning a baby carrier at the mall with a crying baby in it – except it’s the ugliest baby you’ve ever seen.

The dudes of Pranksist Productions point and laugh at ordinary items. We don’t even need to look at the video anymore. We just leave it playing in the background and our day is better.

Jozaeh really pulled one over on his friends by asking them to pose for his “video project” so that he could capture the confusion when he pulled the wig he made out of his own shorn locks off.

A man gains everyone’s trust despite his ridiculous claims because he’s wearing a suit and holding a microphone. Jest shows how gullible some people are with this surprisingly successful prank.

Zombie attack pranks are starting to increase in frequency, and Alki Stevens’ evil trick amps things up even more, scaring the crap out of innocent bystanders. Let’s hope nobody has a shotgun.

YouTuber LAHWF one ups the high-five trolls at the Tower of Pisa with a more daring prank: walk alongside strangers and hold their hands. He did it at a school though so it wasn’t that risky.