Earles & Jensen

Attempting to show how the art from the prank telephone call isn’t dead regardless of the top initiatives of its most well-known practitioners, comedy writers Andrew Earles and Jeff Jensen possess converted their hobby of complicated people over the telephone into a documenting career using the discharge of their record Just Farr fun: THE BEST Prank TELEPHONE CALL Ever! Vols. 1 & 2. Earles comes from Memphis, TN, and was the co-founder from the zine The Cimarron Weekend aswell as contributing frequently to several music journals, including Magnet (where he pens the column Where’s the road Group), Spin, Paste, Vice, as well as the Onion A.V. Membership. Jensen can be a normal Vice contributor, so that as a musician he’s performed using the organizations Smack Dab, the Jewish, as well as the Wardrobe Case. Both started collaborating on prank calls in the ’90s, creating oddball character types who would connect to unsuspecting strangers, such as for example “Bleachy,” a grossly obese would-be career armed service guy with an mind-boggling fondness for cheeseburgers, and “Midlife,” an over-40 salesman that has embraced an “intense” appearance and party-hearty way of life. As Earles informed a reporter in 2008, “Generally we don’t yell at contact recipients, and cruelty can be an unspoken no-no. We don’t need to damage someone’s evening. For better or worse, we appreciate making obscure recommendations and creating circumstances that might proceed in any path.” For quite some time, Earles & Jensen’s recordings circulated among underground investors, and Earles released several on the 7″ single, however in 2002 Earles put together an album’s well worth of their telephone pranks on the disc entitled Simply for a Laugh, that was released by himself Failed Pilot label. The materials eventually caught the interest of Matador Information, who in 2008 released Just Farr fun: THE BEST Prank TELEPHONE CALL Ever! Vols. 1 & 2, a two-CD collection that featured the entire original recording, another full disk of later materials, and a 60-web page book featuring unique artwork and appreciative essays from famous brands Neal Pollack, Archer Prewitt, Gerard Cosloy, and Devendra Banhart.