#Prank store movie#

Īhmed released a solo album, Once a Jerk, Always a Jerk, in 2000. By the end of the year, Ahmed passed a note down to the manager, who passed it to Brennan: Ahmed had decided to quit the group. The duo appeared in the Psychopathic Records film Big Money Hustlas, but because Brennan and Ahmed were unable to get along with each other, they did not share any scenes in the film Brennan played a supporting role as the police chief, and Ahmed appeared in a cameo as Frank Kissel, an audience member at the strip club. In 2000, tension between the two developed.

#Prank store movie#

The movie was filmed in 1993– 94, and it was almost universally panned by critics. In 1995, the duo appeared in Touchstone Pictures' The Jerky Boys: The Movie. The duo released the double platinum, The Jerky Boys 2 in 1994, followed by The Jerky Boys 3 in 1996, The Jerky Boys 4 in 1997, Stop Staring at Me! in 1999, and The Jerky Tapes in 2001. The album topped the Billboard charts and was eventually certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

The pair gained notoriety from their exposure on the popular The Howard Stern Show, and released their first album, The Jerky Boys, in 1993. The duo made a number of bootleg tapes of their recorded phone calls that eventually were obtained by New York-based radio personality Howard Stern, who played the duo's tracks on the air. According to the act's current record label,, the Jerky Boys have sold over 8,000,000 albums since their 1993 debut.īrennan began making and recording prank telephone calls in the 1970s, and teamed up with the younger Ahmed, in the late 1980s/early 1990s in their Queens neighborhood. Many compilations of the group's work have been released onto albums. Each call was made in character, usually with over-the-top voices influenced by the duo's family members. The phone calls were made by calling unsuspecting recipients, or in response to classified advertisements placed in local New York-based newspapers. Brennan released a follow-up album of new material in November 2020. After Ahmed left the act in 2000, the Jerky Boys continued on as a solo act featuring only Brennan, before going on a 19-year hiatus after the 2001 release of the franchise's penultimate album, The Jerky Tapes. The duo was founded in 1989 by childhood friends Johnny Brennan and Kamal Ahmed.

The Jerky Boys are an American comedy act from Queens, New York City, New York, whose routine consists of prank telephone calls and other related skits. Queens, New York City, New York, United States