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Along the way, they reinvented stadium concerts with the Zoo TV tour, whose stage was crammed full of multimedia screens and satellite feeds, while Bono made nightly prank calls to the White House.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Even when she was giggling with Ryan Gosling because of a writers’ prank, Padilla was hilarious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

“Juiced,” a “reality TV” prank show built around O.J.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Hull has had an eventful week in which she defended herself following a prank she played on her caddie and finishing joint sixth in The Open after starting the final day in contention.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

This has to be a cruel prank from her ex, a Death-Cast employee trying to scare her since she called off their year long engagement last night.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

Playing jokes and pranks, it needs to be amusing and not belittling, obviously.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

In fact, if we were on the eve of April Fools’ Day, not the Fourth of July, I’d guess that the few news stories about the order were pranks.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

Rob Glenny, from Beano, said the coin captures Dennis' "mischief", saying it is a "brilliant way to mark 75 years of laughs, pranks and unleashed imagination".

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

The catty media site Gawker noted that corners of the internet like 4Chan could be expected to respond with heinous pranks, without realizing how vile the rhetoric of regular people was about to get.

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2026

I hadn’t immediately taken her as a person who enjoyed pranks very much.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

The iconic TV character, created for the BBC's former Noel's House Party show in the 1990s, tricked and pranked celebrities, destroyed studio sets and only spoke by screeching his name.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

Kido says they’ve never been on the receiving end of weird or gross trash—or even pranked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

One of them was Rita Skimehorn, the woman from Mascoutah, Illinois, who thought she was being pranked when Pizza Hut HR told her to pack her bags for the USSR.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025

Eliava, in contrast, was a mischievous charmer who pranked his friends, once dressing as a woman to flirt with d’Hérelle at a dinner party, and kept sketchy notes in the lab.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2024

He’s also the guy who pranked my father’s office.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

He and his best pal Chris Stark, who joined Radio 1 in 2012, were known for their real life, on-air bromance and for pranking each other.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

This further fouls up Didi’s holiday, though Cliff’s pranking of Conway may mark the moment when she falls in love.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

“My friend sent me a video, and at first I thought she was pranking me,” the 20-year-old from Nashville told Slate—and not just because the concept of an “A.I. actress” is already baffling enough.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2025

They did this by pranking the chimpanzees with fake snakes, then recording their responses.

From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2025

“Yeah, and we were up here a really long time! What’s the point of pranking someone if the prank’s on you as much as on him?”

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman