Pranks

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.

Got the Monday Tuesday blues? It can’t possibly be as bad as the one that Matsumoto Hatoshi had. He was hit with pies for an entire day after losing a bet to his co-host on the show Gaki no Tsukai.

Diane Amos unleashed the explosive power of Pine-Sol on a slew of unsuspecting guys during what they thought was a just a boring product test. Some of them just couldn’t take it.

A psychic dispensing advice on live TV gets a call from a bloke named Will, who wants to know if he’ll ever see his buddies in Philly again. Watch out for the third card the psychic draws.

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.

The Shake Weight is one of the more inappropriate looking pieces of workout equipment when in action, so this guy decided to go on the street with one and see how many people he could freak out.

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.

YouTuber Bangakang and his friends filled a large and ratty chest with chocolate gold coins, buried it in Venice Beach in the middle of the night and then “discovered” it the next day.

Why this girl is stomping around all covered in mud in the first place is a mystery to us, but she’s about to get even messier when she runs into an unexpected surprise.

Old Uncle Drew is asked to play ball with the young blood, who are annoyed at first but then quickly remember not to judge a book by its cover. Especially if it really is just that: a cover.

A French man is blindfolded by his buddies and told he’s about to make a 50-foot bungee jump off a bridge during his bachelor party. Fortunately, he didn’t dive in head first.

We’re starting to wonder if the people in Jack Vale’s city think he’s nuts. Here he is with another awkward prank, convincing his wife that he’s at Walmart. Well he is, but that’s not the problem.

Capital Breakfast DJ’s Lisa Snowdon and Dave Barry had their guest Chris Hemsworth break some uncomfortable news from the family of one of their listeners as Thor. Odin’s son did it in one take.

At the Tower of Pisa in Italy, every tourist tries to get a photo in a cheesy “I’m holding up the tower” pose. These guys take advantage of all those outstretched hands with some high-fives.

Like pranks? Here’s 10 practical jokes from Quirkology that you can pull off with minimal effort and no cost (except your friendships.) The ketchup packet trick is pure evil. Works with mustard too.

In Soviet Russia, the police are criminally funny. Nokia hijacks a shopping mall elevator to promote the Lumia. Gotta love the first dude to be pranked. The ad also has playful and naughty versions.

It’s about time Toronto got the hero it deserved. Yes, their Batman is a lot like Gotham’s except that he strikes fun into the hearts of people. And his arch nemesis is The Jerky.

So this is why they call it an “amusement” park. You could say our laughing along just encourages mean behavior, but then again, what kind of kid falls asleep when there’s roller coasters to ride?!

Some of you might be familiar with the bucket prank, in which an unsuspecting victim is forced to hold a bucket of water to the ceiling and ends up soaked. This is not that version.

Jimmy Kimmel’s previous crowdsourced pranks were pretty harmless. But this one is a bit riskier for the volunteers – they unplugged their TV while their family was watching the Super Bowl.

Prankmeister Rémi Gaillard stands by the side of the road disguised as one of those annoying speed cameras, snapping pictures of anything he thinks is going too fast – because, why not?

Also known as the “poor man’s perimeter alarm”, these foot-long pull-strings are rigged with a small explosive charge, which makes a loud 85dB bang when yanked. Sold in packs of 72 pieces.

After the success of the Halloween candy prank, Jimmy Kimmel once again asked parents to mess with their kids. The little ones were allowed to open their presents early, only to find crap inside.

These poor souls who unfortunately had to work on Black Friday probably had enough on their plates before these guys (inspired by this show) came along with their nonsensical shopping lists.

Last October, the gorilla enclosure at the Werribee Open Range Zoo in Australia was tested out by… two guys in gorilla suits. Visitors were treated to an unbelievable display of fake gorilla behavior.