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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มี.ค. 2020
- When they infiltrated three morning news programs by passing themselves off as an improbable strongman duo, Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett were not the first people to prank TV News.
Left-leaning activists The Yes Men famously infiltrated BBC, and right-wing provocateur James O'Keefe unsuccessfully attempted to plant a false story in the Washington Post. More frequently, tricksters have no overt political agenda, happy to simply interrupt serious or anodyne programing with the absurd or profane. Whatever the perpetrators’ intention, the result of these stunts is a demonstration of the fallibility of newsgathering operations. As such, out of embarrassment or pragmatism, the targeted media companies generally avoid legal retaliation against the pranksters. That all changed with Prueher and Pickett.
Gray Television owns and/or operates over 100 local television stations across the country. The conglomerate had previously been fooled by two other bogus characters created by Prueher and Pickett and decided to sue the comedy team after the phony strongmen, dubbed Chop and Steele, conquered their airwaves. One of the charges was copyright infringement, over clips of the broadcast Prueher and Pickett used in a montage, which they believe is protected by “fair use” laws. The more serious charges were “fraud” and “conspiracy to commit fraud.”
The legal battle was shaping up to be precedent-setting, but almost a year after the charges were filed, as VICE News was reporting the story, there was a sudden twist. The two sides came to an unexpected settlement. Without a judge to make a final ruling each party declared itself the de facto winner of the litigation.
Watch the story below to see the arguments both sides present for their victory, in what Prueher described as “A really stupid first amendment battle.”
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This is like suing someone that rickrolled you
I put a Rick roller in prison
Ahh the days of being rickrolled
@Bravo did you just rickroll me?
@Bravo i got premium so im at risk still
@@inbredjesus9188 sure
The real crime here is how the TH-cam algorithm hasn’t suggested any of their material to me until now
Agreed
Yes youth e has just become
To coproate
Right? Like wtf TH-cam.
Have you sued yet?
Agreed!
“ Man these two people have made us look so stupid. What should we do about it? I know, let’s do something that will make us look more stupid.”
The news agency didn't do their own research. How IRONIC lmfao.
Actually it’s normal nowadays for “journalists” to just be straight up given stories and scripts to read. They don’t actually do investigative journalism anymore.
what do you expect, so many false information have been release by these "reputable" media outlets just because they're just too lazy to do their research.
@@GyroZeppel The sad thing is is that this could be different if news agencies had better funding but as it stands the quality of their work is lowering over time
This feels like an episode of the Onion.
Right😅
Dude 100% 😂
😂😂😂😂
I thought I was the only one who saw The Onion movie. Glad to know that I'm not the only one who watches movies like that.
These guys are funnier than The Onion
“We’re giving yo-yo’s to the homeless”. I just blew my pop out my nose.
Do you know the name of the movie clip shown at 1:40????
Homeless deserve yoyo fun too.
Yall got censored
😂😂😂😂
You can watch all the clips - search k Strauss yo yo master. Absolutely hilarious!!
"We are giving yoyo to the homeless." LMAO 🤣
To bring there spirt uP when there feeling dowN
that should be a charity
Yoyos for hobos
Seriously. I used to be homeless, if I had a yoyo it would of saved me from damn near loosing my mind from boredom 😄
@@1984AEG That's amazing! I want that to exist.
This reminds me of the reading of names of the crew of a plane crash, 'Sum Ting Wong,' 'Wi Tu Lo,' 'Ho Lee Fuk,' and 'Bang Ding Ow'
Was that just a disgruntled teleprompter tech or what?
@@elijahgavin6706 I'm pretty sure that was claimed.
A comedic genius
@@elijahgavin6706 prank call in or statement to a station in the bay area, about a plane crashing on landing in San Francisco, if I recall.
that is epic, and they apologized the next day, who ever pulled that off is a genus.
YoYos for the homeless. Now that's a cause I'd vote for.
Is that the warehouse dude off the office Nate yo yo man
Lol that part got me going
If the homeless are buy yo-yoing, it should be harder for them to take drugs
>Homelessness Solved
You are 100% right, a vote for YoYo is still better than a vote for Trump. LOL
@@partyrockorengesarelit9139 dude I think it is... wtf
Btw these guys are my hero’s and the news deserves it
Jenn Hawkins Vice is the news
*heroes
Yeah!! All those Trump haters!!!
Cause they’re fake news
I applied for a work at a well known TV channel but they didn't want me because my IQ is over 70...
:(
It would be even funnier if Vice Media secured an interview with the news station for a serious reason but these two guys show up to prank the station again
It's called we do a little bit of trolling.
Brilliant!
The fact that it wasn't just one or two, but several different news shows makes it even better. These guys are hilarious! 😂😂😂
No country talks more about free speech, but gets so upset about free speech like America. Whack.
Correction...no one complains about free speech as Leftist Americans! Ironic isn’t it!?
@@changed9047 And you can't stfu about getting your firearms taken away. Did you go panic buy a gun today?
@@changed9047 not true, republicans freak out just as much. And I'm not American
@@Itsunclegabby Nope, got plenty
I don't think you understand what free speech actually means. What it means is you can say what you want without recourse from the government. It does not mean a company has to give you a platform. It does not mean people have to listen to whatever bullshit you are saying and cannot react adversely to what you are saying. It covers governmental recourse, that is all. I can't be thrown in jail for saying anything, but I can still get punched in the mouth for it and a company can choose to ban me from their service for it.
The news need to get sued for being stupid. Not them for fraud.
Nobody should be getting sued.
Hector Diaz I’m gonna sue you for saying such a horrible thing
Hector Diaz jk of course
@@FBIagentObama Ok
Hector Diaz no not ok
“We are giving away free yo-yos for homeless people.” 💀 💀
Lmao
Bro I died when I heard that
They need to digitize their VHS collection before its lost.
I wonder how many of these tapes RedLetterMedia have…?
"We are giving out Yoyos to the homeless" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
i’d go homeless. just to get a free yo-yo
I died 😂🤣
cassl14 calm down buzz kill- it’s just a joke.
@cassl14
"on the brink of a horrific great depression"
Agreed... we definitely are, its gonna be a rough ride, good luck!
lmao
These guys are hero’s. If the media can’t discern when they are being trolled HOW can you hope to trust them with being the gatekeepers of factual dissemination of information. This media outlet deserves to be laughed out of court.
Dude I give you 1 million thumbs up if I could
@@estanford826 Move along citizens, nothing to see here.
This deserves to be the #1 reply, not to mention being the main thing being addressed. Thank you for your reasonable thinking, it has been a long time since I last read one on a random post and today ive about drowned in the entitlement and audacity of others, sniffle, you give me hope 🤪😁
heroes*
Imagine thinking all Media are created with equal quality of research and comparing a morning show to a serious News outlet.
I officially love these two human beings.
mad gay yo
Sooo this is what marriage would looks like if you stayed perpetually in a bromance with your middle school beastie.
Gotta admit, I'm jealous.
Why is this not a movie with Will Ferrell yet?????
Because they're too busy paying self centered 'vloggers' to fly places and complain
Sidnei J that's a good idea. Make a movie having the news network look like complete morons.
The should make an movie about this
I'll watching it
And Owen Wilson as the co-star!
Will Ferrell is not funny anymore
The irony here is hilarious. The news suing someone else for fraud
Touche!!
Hahahha this is awesome...fraud
HOW DARE YOU FRAUD OUR FRAUD SHOW!!!!!!
exactly.
this is the government's guidebook to modern hysteria creation
@@drewdemien481 look up Sigmund Freud 's nephew Edward Bernays And read about his impact to Public relations and marketing. It's the model used today to keep people glued to the TV it's very interesting.
OMG Mark is the actor who becomes Dwight's assistant on The Office when he buys out the building
Nate🥰
Thank you, I was just wondering where I knew I'm from
They could have ironclad contracts for all future appearances preventing them being sued and half the time no one will bother to read it.
So, I can sue someone just because I'm stupid. Got it.
😄
New to California?
@@nonimus2030 Nope. Born and raised in southern California.
California = home of frivolous lawsuits
@Robert Bru this America sounds like land full of magic and wonder huh?
Plot twist, they tricked vice about their story continuing their premises.
0__0
🤪😂🤣🤪😂🤪🤣🤪😂🤪🤣🤪
@Cynthia May plot twist: cynthia may is joshua hammond
Seeing Mark Prosch of Breaking Bad, Tim and Eric being the yo-yo man was the best thing ever
Was he on breaking bad?? I know he was on the office and what we do in the shadows but I didn’t recognize him till I read your comment lol
Bro, Mark “the yoyo master” was on the later seasons of the office!
And better call saul
Them being fake strong men is pretty damn funny
TheJrockfreak glad you got the point of them doing this
Bloody hilarious...💙🇦🇺
This is the blandest comment I’ve ever seen
The scary part is they only realized these guys were a fraud because it was made public. Imagine how many reports made it to public television without being verified.
I own a business. I can only how many reps of shady companies have pushed bullshit products and services
Great point!
I think you mean "commercial" television. Public television is usually described as PBS, BBC...state assisted networks.
Fake news
A lot of the experts the MSM puts in turn out to be fakes. They usually would rather forget it happened, than emphasize that it happened.
When your entire career is based on just parroting what you're told to say (usually straight from a teleprompter), anything that is unexpected or deviates from the script is terrifying and must be dealt with.
Shout out to vice for basically resolving these dudes problem. Without you guys they may not have had such an easy time!
I remember way back when this started. I can't believe they didn't get any crowdfunding to win the case. That's such an easy win if you had a decent lawyer
Maybe they would have gotten the crowdfunding if they got the publicity. This was the first I heard of these stupid brilliant men, exposing the negligence of the news networks.
But the news networks weren't about to help them make their story visible since it would be against their interests.
@@DrejaAndi I feel like the internet was pretty big when this was going on though
@@JACpotatos The internet is just a tool, it doesn't make publicity or exposure by itself. It's all about how people use it. We don't use it for important issues like this as much as we do for stupid things like what our favorite celebrity wore today or what how many points our favorite sports team got today.
@@DrejaAndi Thank God you're here to explain the internet for us. I hadn't even heard of the internet until you brought it up.
@@bellablow4287 did you even watch the video m8, that's not what happened
"I'd feel like we're robbing a bank, every time we'd get on one of these shows." LOL!
Seriously though. Imagine the adrenaline rush ... pulling a prank like that right in front of the fools and they don’t even realize .. wow.
The fact that they know about 'Jingle Cats' had me on their side from the start 😁
When he said "I've been better' after getting lightly pelted by twigs fucking killed me. Goddamn these guys are great.
I think the news station could have saved money if they spent it to teach everyone how to do their research better than just sueing them.
Tecpaocelotl Castillo Are we talking about cnn
that's america we dont take responsibility we blame others and sue.
They could also take the money they saved to teach you the correct way to spell *suing*
Oh you think??? They said the exact same thing in the video, you "think " lol
@@Qcpally damm this guy really did "think" that, what an original thought.
The yo-yo guy is Nate from the office! Holy shit! 😂
YES LOL, I was wondering where i recognized him!!!!!!
Came to the comments to see if my eyes weren’t deceiving me. Guy is hillarious.
I was looking for this lmaoo
ey a scranton and before that le Philadelphia
I loveeeee Nate!!!
this is what TH-camrs do everyday and people watch them.
From the muscle pants to the enormous VHS collection, these guys have perfected that whole ironic hipness thing.
The legal system: free to all, depending on the size of your wallet.
so how can we trust the news they feed us when they can’t even tell that these dudes are comics
They don't even know what's going on. They just read the teleprompter with their weird robotic voices.
The term "fake news" exists for a reason. And they attack it the same way that they sued these comics.
We don’t.
Nothing stopping me from pranking Gray Media. Tee hee 🤣🤣🤣
Hilarious. Thank you. I needed this.
What if these fellas were pranking Vice and there really was no lawsuit...
Next level pranking.... I like your thinking.
What if vice is really pranking us and 90 percent of their stories are just worth less pats on the back.
The irony would make me lmao.
God, I hope so. That would be an awesome twist..lol
then they'd be in jail for fraud for raising funds for a legal defense team.
"Our buddy Mark, he said he'd be the yoyo expert"
*"Mark has no idea how to do yoyo at all"*
Sounds like what a pro gamer would do
Yeah. Or American voters in 2016.
The biggest tragedy in this video happens at 4:21 where he wouldn't let the little pug crawl under his arm to get some cuddles :'(
Was looking for someone who felt the same way 🤣🤣🤣
@@ButterscotchMusic I know right? 😄
3:33 uncensored wiener
Real respect for the journalists and researchers of vice for publishing this and bringing insight into the cutthroat nature of these corporates
Lol, so the News outlet w was upset because they got “Sacha Baron Cohened” ? 😩
Black Girl In Iran ! 😂 great comparison!
Black Girl In Iran !
Damn you’re cute😘😘😘😘
taz santiago creepy
@@TAZ0300 - nice profile pic. You look like something Joe "the tigerking" would facts with
Rompelstaump
Nice profile pic? Sorry man I’m not into gay white guys but thanks for the compliment 🍆💦🤤
Aint gonna lie, in the begginning when they karate chopped the vhs i was legit impressed.
So was I.
Do you know how hard it is to find VHS tapes now??
@@BWater-yq3jx Right?
The news channel actually thought you guys were being serious?!
Lol 🤣🤣👍🏻👍🏻
Worth it!
Thanks for the chuckle guys!
" get rid of all your ugly friends " 😳
I wouldn't have many left, and they wouldn't have ugly me. Or has social distancing accomplished this anyway?
Andreja Calibri you wouldn’t have any left LOL jkjk
looks like that mccorkle real estate guy
Shouldn't have had them in the first place!
but what if they are ugly on the inside ? lol
I mean, they dont look very "strong" to be teaching strongman routines in first place. That should be a clue... Just saying.
Zero muscle lol
One guy had c cups
Okay I had no idea mark was their friend. Wow. Dude was a gem on the office - and he’s hilarious in what we do in the shadows
Giving out yoyo's to the homeless had me dying 😂😂😂
Just goes to show that you should NOT listen to “News’ shows because they don’t research their news 🤣
Yes! Exactly!
Exactly... I guarantee whatever news company sued them lost a lot of credibility, just for suing them also. Talk about butthurt. I don't really want to get my news from a butthurt crybaby news source.
Comment Highlighted Bingo.
"we are giving out yoyos to tge homeless"
LOOOOOOOOOLLL!!!
Lmao
😂💀
Well, I'm glad you find that funny you unfeeling sociopath. Yoyo's are of no practical use to the homeless I would have thought. You might as well give them broken airport landing lights. Fascist.
Thank you for your service!👍🏼
Thank you vice. I am enjoying your news.
Has anyone else noticed that their yoyoing friend is Nate from The Office?!!
melissa rosario he does a lot with Tim Heidecker as well
he was recently in a coma for a year
Yeah he can hear just when there’s a bunch of noise going at once he has difficulties
Has anyone else noticed that gum has gotten mintier thru the years? Like some of it's too minty.
He’s also on What We Do in the Shadows on FX. He actually got the his first role on The Office because someone from the show saw his fake yo-yo routine and thought it was so funny that they needed him in the show
2:31 I almost died!!! the image of a homeless person getting a Yo-yo and thinking “what the f$ck do I need this for?” is hilarious!
D. A. Entertainment? Homeless have no phones or tv lack any entertainment really could actually be a God send
The south will raise again! 2020 Buy a bunch of YO-YOS and distribute them to the homeless.... let me know how that goes. Lol
i laughed so loud when he said "we are giving yo-yos to the homeless"
News shows getting pranked will NEVER get old. ❤️
“we are giving yo-yo’s to the homeless”
Those guys be like: "We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled".
They fool us all the time but as soon as we do it.... now they mad
Yalls editor really soft balled the Yo-Yos to homeless joke lol damn I was caught off guard
"Drink this chicken and strawberry smoothie"
NPC's: "Well shucks"
That newscaster that was going for the chug is a trooper!
@@diypictures no she's a robot. following orders.
"We are giving yo-yos to the homeless."
I nearly spit cheerios across the room
Thank you for covering this story. This is typical of how the powerful attack the powerless (ie SLAPP suits). Unfortunately, the media rarely covers these types of stories because most have become extremely powerful themselves.
This made me inhale my dr pepper, thanks guys. It's hilarious that the news station sued them because they were too awful at their job to make sure their guests even knew what they were doing XD like don't they usually have a pre-interview with guests?
Also, how is it illegal for them to prank the news station? I don't understand
These tv stations don’t know yet that they’re doomed. Fewer and fewer people are watching TV and they know it. They hate TH-cam for this reason
Dog dog they are on TH-cam
They own youtube
These are called SLAPP suits. John Oliver did a piece on these types of lawsuits and how dangerous and scary they really are.
Could you give me a short description of what a slapp suit is?
@@HeyItsJonny A strategic lawsuit against public participation, SLAPP suit, or intimidation lawsuit is intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition
@@laslorose7074 Thank you.
@@laslorose7074 Yup yup
@JASON PRIESTLY.....this is LARGELY in part how #DCFS operates...fuckin' degenerates every single one of them...🤙
Props to those guys! Bringing some light fun and joy through harmless pranks on television.
Made me laugh, you guys hysterical and so talented
Don't sue them it's a prank.
These guys look like they trained with rex-quan-do
Only the best have trained with him!
That was the first thing that popped into my mind when seeing this
Hahahaha you want a round house kick wit these bad boys !!!!
“Do you think anybody thinks I’m a failure because I come home to starla at night?”
BOW to your sensei!
At 3:40 this guy somehow got on the phone with them thinking that he was a staff sgt. at the US embassy in Ukraine. Absolutely brilliant
These guys are hilarious. I feel bad for them being sued. I hope they win and can counter Sue.
If you want to know how the Lawsuit turned out you can literally find out in this very video you're commenting on..
When you realize that yo-yo master Mark is actually Nate from the office.
Yep. Jenna Fischer wrote about him in her book
2:12 I just realized that their friend, Mark, is Nate from The Office. 🤯
"Darryl, I am glad to be in your life too."
Chris Williams I was wondering that lmao
that's what i was fucking thinking 🤔
Also the guy with the baseball cards in Better Call Saul
Mark Proksch from On Cinema, too.
Now has Collin from what we do in the shadows
This is the first time ever i've found an interesting and funny Vice articlle. Congratulations guys
These guys are awesome. It's so true a lot of so called journalists don't do any research at all and take things at face value. The stations should be counter sued for stupidity, lack of common sense and apathy. If I were the head of these stations I would have given the "Journalists" a warning, and congtatulated the guys for showing a chink in the armor.
These guys do a great live show, seen them 4 times live now in the UK, last time was last week in Birmingham, they are great to chat to afterwards too, lovely guys.
The News is "entertainment", that why they're allow to tell stories and not report the news. So, I would use that.
These guys are brilliant. I like the VHS thing, that's something different & LOVE the news thing. Really respect & admire the ways 👏 🙌
Smashing wicker baskets LMAO
Absolute legends! Just to show how shitty most TV programming is.
Imagine bein so daft that y didn’t realize this was a joke from the get go
Hey babay
It’s from the gecko u dummy😅😂😂
If you start of the news like you’re Ron burgundy and his news cast. You deserve to be pranked
I needed to watch this, hahahahaha. These guys are great.
That's the warehouse worker Nate on The Office doing the yo yo bit!
1:38 "These are videos that weren't meant to be shown in public.... things like ... public access TV" Lol
In their defense, Public Access was terrible and should have never been shown to the public anyways....
key word here: *THEY* can't prank Gray media. Everyone start taking improve classes.
The funny thing is that these guys are just feeling nerds and critics like they really not actors at all just Pranksters
Was that Dwights friend from the office? The one had to re ply all the tp😂😂
i think so
Too Funny! I'm still laughing! I can't believe what they're doing if indeed they are trying to sue you! And they win!
THEY can no longer prank Gray, but someone else can
Thank you for posting this! I needed to laugh during these crazy times!
And you look dope during these crazy times. Stay well
"We are giving out yo-yos to the homeless." 🤣
Come in with beer belly’s and they have no idea it isn’t legit?? 🤣🤣