Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Wed, May 12, 2021 at 1:09 PM Facebook / Jerky Boys During their 90s heyday, it was damned near impossible to escape the Jerky Boys. It seemed like the comedy duo s prank phone call CDs were in constant rotation in every college dorm room. And if you were without a stereo, there was a good chance you had a friend who could recite a dozen of the calls verbatim. Decades later, Johnny Brennan, the wisecracking New Yorker who s now the sole caretaker of the Jerky Boys Brand, is back at it and he ll be appearing Wednesday, September 22 at San Antonio s Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.
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New Jerky Boys Album is Loaded with Hilarious Hudson Valley Calls & References
The Jerky Boys are back and they ve let the Hudson Valley in on the joke this time.
If you grew up in the age before cell phones and caller ID there s a good chance that you ve made a prank phone call once or twice or if you re like me maybe over a dozen times. However, just because you make a few crank calls doesn t make you professional.
Did you know that the real professional and arguably the king of crank calls lives right here in the Hudson Valley?
Self-Deprecating Dec 23, 2020 By Jake Uitti Web Exclusive
If you throw on any one of the early tapes from The Jerky Boys, odds are you’re going to have several immediate reactions. The original pioneers of crank phone calls, first, are brash, shocking and, yet, funny. At other times, though, you may bristle or find yourself putting your hand over your mouth in astonishment. The tapes, which were created by the loud-talking comedian, Johnny Brennan, do create surprise and alarm. But not always in the ways you might assume. If you listen closely, Brennan is often being self-deprecating. The joke is on him or his character (which, admittedly, gets a bit murkier). But while the tapes aren’t necessarily for everyone, they sure have been popular over the decades ever since The Jerky Boys’ first official release in 1993. Ever since, The Jerky Boys have sold millions of records. We caught up with Brennan to talk about creating the idea, the many characters that appear in his