This is part of my ongoing coverage of San Diego Comic-Con 2019. Comedy Central is rebooting the old Crank Yankers show (originally created by Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel. I actually used to watch the original, as I moved to L.A. in 1995 when Adam was Mr. Birchum and Jimmy was the sports guy on KROQ, so I’ve followed their careers for many decades now. This exhibit was pretty fun and interesting, as you could pick up a phone and hear pre-recorded crank calls. Maybe just as funny was watching younger attendees puzzled about how telephones work. In any event, the staff said that these were original, production used puppets, so they qualified for some coverage on the Original Prop Blog. [Read more…]
