Punk’d was an American hidden camera practical joke television series that first aired on MTV
in 2003 and was produced and hosted by Ashton Kutcher. It bore a resemblance to both the classic hidden camera show Candid Camera and to TV’s Bloopers & Practical Jokes, which also featured pranks on celebrities. Being “punk’d” referred to being the victim of such a prank. Kutcher will also sometimes use real-life current events as elements in his pranks, as when he pranked tennis player Andy Roddick, who was scheduled to appear on The Tonight Show, by convincing him that his automobile was trapped by the Los Angeles mudslides. Kutcher sometimes sets his pranks where his targets work, such as on the sets of movies, TV shows, and music videos. As one example, Kutcher pranked The Rock, who was filming Be Cool, by convincing him that his trailer was destroyed. As another example, Kutcher pranked Kanye West by convincing him that he could not shoot his music video for “Jesus Walks” on Sundays without a permit.
Kutcher has also done holiday-themed pranks, as when he punked Beyoncé Knowles into thinking she knocked over a 50-foot (15 m) Christmas Tree, or when he pranked Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz into thinking he derailed a train at a Christmas festival. The series finale aired on MTV on May 29, 2007. In October 2010, Punk’d was reportedly being revived with Justin Bieber as the new host. Kutcher will still remain as executive producer.
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I think Punk’d are doing guest hosts now. So no more Bieber!!! He was crap. Bad choice to start a new series. All in all though i still love the show. The Justin Timberlake and Matthew Perry set ups were classics. I just used to mute the television when Ashton started shouting at me.
Good ridence.
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First we have to put up with Kutcher now, even worse we have Bieber. Sometimes i think its us getting punk’d.
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I still like Punk’d. Some of the set ups they manage to pull off are pretty good and i agree its great to see celebrities in a state of panic. However im not so sure about Justin Bieber taking over from Ashton. Justin seemed to sit like a naughty school boy being told off while listening to the grown ups as they tell him whats going on in the show. I dont think he had any input apart from saying ‘i wanna blow things up’. Cute
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Sometimes quite funny. Would probably be alot more watchable without Ashton Kutchers shouty loud face screaming down the camera every few minutes.
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Too much Ashton and too much shouting. Why has this guy got to shout stuff all the time ?
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This quite literally was ‘same show different day’ because MTV decided to repeat the same episodes of Punk’d over and over again on a constant loop for years.
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Quite liked it. Bringing celebrities down a peg or two is fine by me. For anyone that hasnt seen it, check out Justin Timberlake cryng for his mommy when he gets set up. Fantastic
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