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  • http://twitter.com/pishabh pishabh

    Zombieconomy 

  • Michael A

    Check out the static-shock one he did as well.. hilarious

    • mkanoap

       I thought that one was funny at first, his head flop was hilarious, but when he gets a woman to come out of the place and ask if he’s ok and then repeats the bit while she dials 911…  It stopped being funny.  A car driving itself, a floating cup, those are all amusing because they are people reacting to impossible things.  The scenario of the dude having a seizure or passing out suddenly is too close to plausible and pretty irresponsible.

  • blueelm

    “Am I trippin’”

    Ok that was a good prank. I sooo would have loved to have seen this in person when I was a kid. I would have freaked.

  • miasm

    check. check. check. wait. check.
    damn.

  • http://twitter.com/TimmoWarner Timmo Warner

    This prank was pretty funny and in good fun, but I find some of his other ones in poor taste. I’m sure others would disagree though.

    • Bubbubsky

      I actually couldn’t agree more. This one was funny and isn’t one that’s going to really upset people.

  • Jonathan Roberts

    Instagram dat joint.

  • jhoosier

    I laughed.  Also, after living abroad for a decade, it’s interesting to see how people speak now. I wonder if things have changed, or I’m just not used to it anymore.

    • SamSam

      It’s a very big country, and there are very many widely diverse people in it, many of whom speak quite differently from each other.

      I think you find that there were many people who spoke quite differently from whatever you were used to even 30 or 40 years ago.

  • http://thisisonlya.blogspot.com robcat2075

    Allen Funt is turning green with envy in his grave. If he’s not green already.

    • wrybread

      If you want to see Allen Funt turn downright purple, look up Trigger Happy TV…

  • Petzl

    This guy is fantastic. But I would’ve only kept the clips where the employee sees the empty driver side as he pulls up.  In half of them, the employee only opens the window after the car has already pulled up, and can mentally explain away what s/he sees as “the driver for some reason evacuated the car.”  There’s no (ready) explanation when you actually see an empty car pull up.

  • dawdler

    oh snap

  • PaulMorel

    Looks a bit like viral marketing to me. Why is all his “magic” based in fast food places? Very funny either way.

    • http://twitter.com/cjporkchop cjporkchop

       Yes, it was obviously a joint-effort by McDonalds/Wendys/BurgerKing/Arbys/KFC/TacoBell. Good call.

  • Luther Blissett

    Excellent: 2:47. Quick, someone make a gif of it an post it on 4chan.

  • http://profiles.google.com/joshuabardwell Joshua Bardwell

    Racist comments don’t suddenly become funny if you slather them with enough irony.