It just so happens that someone out there has been kind enough to take the best and funniest of these calls and compile them into one Youtube video that's about eight minutes long. I first heard about this video a few years ago from a friend of mine who is like a goldmine of good Youtube videos. Good videos, mind you. Not great ones. However, I think this is one of his best finds to date. Probably due to the fact that these lines are not scripted and it's really funny to see a guest on C-SPAN get incredibly embarrassed when a caller reveals that they have been wondering what the guest, possibly pictured above, looks like naked. Just kidding, that's not him, but it's the only picture of someone on C-SPAN that I could find.
Another inevitable outcome of these prank phone calls that adds to the hilarity of the whole incident is the C-SPAN people getting real pissed off. Apparently one of the requirements to be an anchor on C-SPAN is a complete lack of a sense of humor. The anchors almost always try to make a smart comment insinuating how immature the prank caller is, desperate not to let him get away unscathed. However, they usually don't do too good of a job. The callers frequently cause the anchors to appear rattled and confused, making an unbiased outsider wonder how they ever got a job anchoring a news program.
My personal favorite prank caller has only one dream in life: to say fuck on tv. Once he calls in, he asks, "Am I on
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This video was pretty funny, I was pretty surprised to find out that there are people who would bother prank calling C-Span. Most of the anchors get a bit upset and then they all just hang up, there were only a few that had really funny reactions. It just seems like a lot of effort for relatively little payoff.
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