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The Jerky Boys

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The Jerky Boys is an American comedy act from Queens, New York, whose routine consists of prank telephone calls and other related skits. [1]

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Amy Schumer

Amy Beth Schumer (born June 1, 1981) is an American stand-up comedian and actress.

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Arrested Development (TV series)

Arrested Development is an American television sitcom created by Mitchell Hurwitz, which originally aired on Fox for three seasons from November 2, 2003, to February 10, 2006.

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Big Money Hustlas

Big Money Hustlas is a 2001 American comedy film directed by John Cafiero as his feature film debut.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of singles or albums in the United States and elsewhere.

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Bootleg recording

A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority.

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Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice

Britain's Got the Pop Factor...

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Cannibal! The Musical

Cannibal! The Musical (originally known as Alferd Packer: The Musical) is a 1993 American independent black comedy horror musical film directed, written, produced, co-scored by and starring Trey Parker while studying at the University of Colorado at Boulder, before reaching fame with South Park alongside his friend Matt Stone who also stars in and produced the film.

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Collective Soul

Collective Soul is an American rock band originally from Stockbridge, Georgia.

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Comedy

In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.

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Compact disc

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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Crank Yankers

Crank Yankers is an American television show produced by Adam Carolla, Jimmy Kimmel and Daniel Kellison that featured actual crank calls made by show regulars and celebrity guests and re-enacted onscreen by puppets for a visual aid to show the viewer what is happening in the call.

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Don't Hang Up, Tough Guy!

Don't Hang Up, Tough Guy! is a collection of prank calls and improvised skits performed by the Jerky Boys around New York City.

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Family Guy

Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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Film criticism

Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap Songs is a record chart that ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother (often abbreviated to HIMYM) is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 19, 2005, to March 31, 2014.

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Howard Stern

Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio and television personality, producer, author, actor, and photographer.

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Inner Four

Inner Four, Inc. is a software company that develops a wide range of Mobile apps, with a focus on the Apple iPhone.

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Insane Clown Posse

Insane Clown Posse (ICP) is an American hip hop duo composed of Violent J (Joseph Bruce) and Shaggy 2 Dope (originally 2 Dope; Joseph Utsler).

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James Lorinz

James Lorinz (born May 22, 1964) is an American writer/director/actor whose most famous roles include Street Trash, Frankenhooker and The Jerky Boys: The Movie.

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Johnny Brennan

Johnny Brennan is an American actor, film writer, and voice actor.

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Kamal Ahmed (comedian)

Kamal Ahmed (born May 7, 1966), usually called Kamal, is a Bangladeshi-American comedian and former member of the Jerky Boys prank phone calling group.

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Lisp

A lisp, also known as sigmatism, is a speech impediment in which a person misarticulates sibilants,. These misarticulations often result in unclear speech.

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List of Family Guy characters

Family Guy is an American animated comedy series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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List of practical joke topics

A practical joke (also known as a prank, gag, jape or shenanigan) is a mischievous trick or joke played on someone, typically causing the victim to experience embarrassment, perplexity, confusion, or discomfort.

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Mercury Records

Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Old-school hip hop

Old-school hip hop (also spelled old skool) is a term describes the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music.

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Once a Jerk, Always a Jerk

Once a Jerk, Always a Jerk is the debut solo comedy album by prank call artist Kamal Ahmed, former member of the Jerky Boys.

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Pablo Honey

Pablo Honey is the debut studio album by English rock band Radiohead, released on 22 February 1993 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom and by Capitol Records in the United States.

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Paul Feig

Paul Samuel Feig (born September 17, 1962) is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Prank call

A prank call (also known as a crank call, phony call or hoax call) is a telephone practical joke.

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Psychopathic Records

Psychopathic Records, also known as The Hatchet, is an American independent record label based in Farmington Hills, Michigan that specializes in hip hop music.

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.

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Queens

Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Radio

Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.

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Radiohead

Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Recording Industry Association of America certification

In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets.

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Ringtone

A ringtone or ring tone is the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming call or text message.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Scat Records

Scat Records is a St.

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Select Records

Select Records is an American record label.

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Semi-trailer truck

A semi-trailer truck (more commonly semi truck or simply "semi") is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight.

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Seth MacFarlane

Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, and singer, working primarily in animation and comedy, as well as live-action and other genres.

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Sketch comedy

Sketch comedy comprises a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long.

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Slowdive

Slowdive are an English rock band that formed in Reading, Berkshire in 1989.

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Sol's Rusty Trombone

Sol's Rusty Trombone is the seventh comedy album by prank call artist, the Jerky Boys.

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Souvlaki (album)

Souvlaki is the second studio album by the English rock band Slowdive.

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Space Ghost Coast to Coast

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Sports agent

A sports agent is a legal representative (hence agent) for professional sports figures such as athletes and coaches.

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Stop Staring at Me!

Stop Staring at Me! is the fifth comedy album released by prank call artists, the Jerky Boys.

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Telephone

A telephone, or phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The Best of The Jerky Boys

The Best of the Jerky Boys is an enhanced, comedy compact disc compilation album by prank call artists, the Jerky Boys.

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The Howard Stern Show

The Howard Stern Show is an American talk radio show hosted by Howard Stern.

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The Jerky Boys

The Jerky Boys is an American comedy act from Queens, New York, whose routine consists of prank telephone calls and other related skits.

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The Jerky Boys (album)

The Jerky Boys is the self-titled debut comedy album by prank call artists, the Jerky Boys.

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The Jerky Boys (soundtrack)

The Jerky Boys is the original soundtrack album of the film of the same title, starring the Jerky Boys.

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The Jerky Boys 2

Jerky Boys 2 is the second comedy album released by prank call artists, the Jerky Boys.

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The Jerky Boys 3

Jerky Boys 3 is the third comedy album by prank call artists, the Jerky Boys.

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The Jerky Boys 4

Jerky Boys 4 is the fourth comedy album by prank call artists, the Jerky Boys, and the second album released on Mercury Records.

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The Jerky Boys: The Movie

The Jerky Boys: The Movie, also known as The Jerky Boys, is a 1995 comedy/crime film starring John G. Brennan and Kamal Ahmed, best known as the comedy duo the Jerky Boys.

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The Jerky Tapes

The Jerky Tapes is the sixth comedy album by prank call artists, the Jerky Boys.

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The Ultimate Jerky Boys Collection

The Ultimate Jerky Boys is a double-disc compilation album by the Jerky Boys.

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Top Heatseekers

Top Heatseekers are "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine.

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Touch-Tone Terrorists

The Touch-Tone Terrorists is a series of prank phone calls comedy CDs.

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Touchstone Pictures

Touchstone Pictures is an American film distribution label of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

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Transvestism

Transvestism is the practice of dressing and acting in a style or manner traditionally associated with the opposite sex.

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Trey Parker

Randolph Severn "Trey" Parker III (born October 19, 1969) is an American actor, animator, writer, director, producer, singer, and songwriter.

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Tube Bar prank calls

The Tube Bar prank calls are a series of prank calls made in the mid-1970s to the Tube Bar in Jersey City, in which Jim Davidson and John Elmo would ask "Red," the proprietor of the bar, if they could speak to various non-existent customers.

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Western United States

The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West, the Far West, or simply the West, traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States.

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1993 in film

The year 1993 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park, The Fugitive and The Firm.

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1994 in film

This is a list of films released in 1994.

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1995 in film

This is a list of films released in 1995.

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1997 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1997.

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1999 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1999.

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2001 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2001.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jerky_Boys

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