Tag: Prank calls
A golden compilation episode featuring some of the show's best prank calls and pranks: Darth Vader rings a confused garage, Laura ventures out disguised as a bearded man, and the classic take-away game creates chaos between two Chinese restaurants. [...]
Scott returns with a chaotic edition full of deliberately unfunny "sick jokes" designed to test listeners' sense of humour, plus the return of the posh noise and an ambitious nationwide experiment to disrupt supermarket trolleys using ultrasonic frequencies. [...]
Scott and the team call up real bookshops asking for made-up books with ridiculous titles and author names, catching the booksellers' increasingly baffled responses. [...]
Scott and the team tackle spam emails promising millions, culminating in a brilliant prank call to a real phone number from one of the scam messages — with hilarious consequences. [...]
Scott attempts to reform a rude motorist with a Susan Jeffers self-help tape prank, and then falls victim to an elaborate wind-up from Jo Whiley involving a fake voicemail message recorded on the street. [...]
Scott and the team pose as Castaway producers to interview the four Radio 1 listeners in the running to join the island, asking increasingly outlandish questions about nudity, romance, and crawling into a dead moose carcass — while Laura navigates a blindfolded mouse trap minefield in the studio. [...]
Scott conducts a cheeky social experiment by giving out what listeners think is a Girls Aloud member's phone number, then calls back the men who ring it posing as the band members themselves — with hilariously awkward results. [...]
A festive edition packed with Santa phoning a naughty child, a round of Play Our Christmas Cards Correctly, the perennially popular mince pie joke, and a compilation of 2006's standout moments including Buckfast Boy and the notorious angry pizza guy. [...]
Scott puts a university to the test to see if they can sing any Christmas carol on request — including The Pogues' famously tricky festive hit. [...]
Scott speaks to Magnus Ramsey from Belfast, who's been mobbed by locals convinced he's a Danny Howard Daily doppelgänger after getting laser eye surgery — and has even been confirmed as a lookalike by the man himself at a Dublin book signing. [...]