Entertainment He became famous doing 90s phone pranks, now The Jerky Boys founder from NYC returns: Report Published: May. 06, 2025, 5:43 p.m.

The founder of prank-call comedy legends The Jerky Boys credited his own mom and dad for inspiring his insane characters – and now he’s ready to take his career full circle.

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 animation gig and a steady behind-the-camera career.

After teasing the return of the Jerky Boys in 2019, the infamous prank call artists have officially announced their first album in over 20 years. Dubbed simply The Jerky Boys, the self-titled LP ...

Twenty-seven years after the Jerky Boys first unleashed their brand of telephone terrorism onto the world – via recordings of them making outrageous phony phone calls to unwitting saps -- Johnny ...

A.V. Club contributor Steve Heisler has a long career overview of The Jerky Boys at rollingstone.com today, covering the group’s rise to prominence in the early ’90s, its shocking success, its ...

The Jerky Boys’ calls were widely bootlegged, and found fans even among musicians like Jay Z, Radiohead and Mariah Carey, all of whom have nodded to the Jerky Boys in their work, and while the ...