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- Punk'd is an American hidden camera – practical joke reality television series that first aired on MTV in 2003. It was created by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg, with Kutcher serving as producer and host.
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Punk'd is an American hidden camera–practical joke reality television series that first aired on MTV in 2003. It was created by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg, with Kutcher serving as producer and host.
A Hidden Camera Show similar to Candid Camera but famous celebrities are the victims. Each week Ashton and his crew of pranksters play a joke on celebrities such as Justin Timberlake and Frankie Muniz.
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- 2003-03-17
- Comedy, Reality-TV
- 30
- 10 The Show Concept Began with Non-Celebs
- 9 Ashton Punk’d The Public and Was Punk’d Himself
- 8 The Edgy Tone of The Show Wasn’T Faked
- 7 Justin Timberlake’s Smooth Facade Slips in Episode 1
- 6 The List of Field Agents Is Very Long
- 5 Whenever They Filmed in Cali, Technically, They Broke The Law
- 4 Superwoman Serena Williams Was...Superwoman
- 3 It Didn’T Always Work
- 2 They Had A Policy When It Looked Like Things Were Going Sideways
- 1 Zach Braff’s Prank Was One of Several Edited For Violence
The show began with a non-celebrity prank concept developed by Kutcher and MTV. Called Harassment, it quickly ran into disaster when a 2002 prank involving a dead body resulted in a $10 million lawsuit. Kutcher and co-creator Jason Goldberg reworked the concept with celebrities. The show ran from 2003 to 2007, was revived with Justin Bieber as a ho...
After the second season of Punk’d, Kutcher punked the public and the media by announcing that he was cancelling the show. “I get bored really, really quickly,” he said. When the third season debuted the next fall, he announced that it had all been a prank. On two occasions, Kutcher himself got pranked. Before the show aired, producers got him to wa...
Jeffrey Schneider was head lawyer for the show. He told HuffPost, “I sort of felt like I was the referee in a basketball game, but one where it was decided to let the players play and not call too many fouls.” That meant juggling risks and rewards on the fly, something Kutcher, Goldberg and Schneider worked together on. And, while some punk’d celeb...
Justin Timberlakehad the bad luck to be in the very first episode. Actor Dax Shepard, working for the show, played an IRS agent sent to repossess Justin’s home and everything he owned – even his dog. RELATED: 10 Celebrities Who Paint In Their Free Time Timberlake broke down in tears and lost it. He’s quoted in Buzzfeed. “What you didn't see from th...
Field agents were the crew members who set up the pranks, many of them actors like Dax Shepard. Every season, they would have to hire a whole new set (five or six) of field agents for the year, because the old crew had become too familiar. Once they were recognized, it was obviously game over. Similarly, for the first season, to end the prank, Asht...
With hidden recordings prohibited, as lawyer Jeffrey Schneider explained in an interview, filming in California meant making a choice. “So we made a conscious decision every time we shot a bit in California that we were going to violate the law.” To avoid any later regrets translating into lawsuits, all the celebs who appear in the segments had to ...
In 2005, the show took on Serena Williams, who was parked in a strip mall when she saw what she thought a teen abducting two kids after a fight with his aunt. RELATED: 10 Celebrities Who Are Proud Franchise Owners Thinking lives were at stake, she shocked everyone by jumping in her Escalade and proceeding to chase the other vehicle at 100mph. Littl...
Naturally, what the show never showed viewers is the list of pranks that didn’t work out. Sometimes, celebs were just too savvy. Kutcher tried to punk Nick Cannon four times reportedly, and it didn’t work once. Instead, Kutcher invited Cannon to the show, and he began helping with pranks in season 9. Neve Campbell was reportedly also another hard c...
An investigative story in Huffington Postdiscovered anecdotal evidence that a member of Outkast's entourage had nearly pulled a gun during their prank. On another occasion, as confirmed by "multiple sources", someone in the Black Eyed Peas crew did actually pull one during an attempted punk. It led to an official policy. If anyone saw a weapon, the...
During Season 4, Zach Braffwas pranked. While his Scrubs co-star Donald Faison took him into a corner store, Punk’d staff started spraying (removable) graffiti on his brand new Porsche. To the shock of the crew, he started chasing after the 12 year old child (actor) screaming. They ended up looking for help in another actor playing a security guard...
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Punk'd is an American hidden camera-practical joke reality television series that first aired on MTV in 2003 and was created by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg, and produced and hosted by Ashton Kutcher.
Punk'd is an American hidden camera-practical joke reality television series that first aired on MTV in 2003 and was created by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg, and produced and hosted by Ashton Kutcher. It bore a resemblance to both the classic hidden camera show Candid Camera and to TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes, which also featured ...
Punk'd is an American hidden camera–practical joke reality television series that first aired on MTV in 2003. It was created by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg, with Kutcher serving as producer and host.
A Candid Camera Prank-type Reality TV show (2003-2007; 2012) airing on MTV, first hosted by Ashton Kutcher and then, in the Revival in 2012, by a series of celebrity hosts for each episode. It focused on pranking celebrities, with varying reactions from temper tantrums to tears.
