It was a childhood treat fueled by a grandmother with a good-natured taste for vengeance. At midnight, the grandchildren were urged to make crank calls people who had crossed grandma in the past year.

Series concept: Comedians make crank telephone calls to unsuspecting victims. Calls are then reenacted by Muppetlike marionettes. Series creators: The brains behind Comedy Central's unashamedly sexist ...

My 10-year-old son's world was thrown off balance last week when he received his first mean-spirited, crank telephone call. It was a rite of passage that would best be avoided. But it seemed perfectly ...

Cabler is finalizing a deal to put the series, which features celeb-voiced puppets pulling phone pranks, back into production. “Crank Yankers” originally aired on Comedy Central for three seasons from ...