Everyone's buzzing about the Fifty Shades of Grey trailer, because Fifty Shades isn't so much a work of fiction as a culture-wide essay prompt. Easily the best take is this bit from Jimmy Fallon and The Tonight Show, who filmed The Roots reacting to a remixed version—with a scary scream-y face added. » 7/30/14 11:00am Today 11:00am

The adorable rapscallions of 5 Seconds of Summer donned Target uniforms to try and drum up interest in their album from their "target" audience, middle-aged men. » 7/28/14 9:40am Monday 9:40am

It's rare that you read about a senior prank that's a)not dangerous or incredibly stupid and b) actually funny (OMG LOL). Someone give the kids at Santa Barbara High School a prize, because they managed to pull off both. » 6/04/14 6:00pm 6/04/14 6:00pm

Female students at a high school in Minnesota were tricked into believing they were required to show up for a "mandatory vagina inspection," thanks to a sick prank. » 5/15/14 11:36pm 5/15/14 11:36pm

Sometimes, when you're feeling fat or tired or behind on life, it's important to remember that "laziness" is relative. » 5/01/14 3:10pm 5/01/14 3:10pm

Alright alright, I know you're over all the belated April Fools pranks and leftover videos. I don't even like April Fools Day—I basically need to keep a roll of Tums with me the whole day because my body can't handle that type of prank stress. ANYWAY, these students planned and executed a prank on their professor… » 4/06/14 3:00pm 4/06/14 3:00pm

If you're cooking up some half-assed April Fool's Day prank, just don't bother. Because Jill Biden already has everyone beat, after huddling in an overhead luggage compartment in Air Force Two, so she could burst forth and scare the shit out of her husband, the vice president. » 3/28/14 1:40pm 3/28/14 1:40pm

Over the holidays, a pair of rapscalliony internet jokesters tricked a handful of local TV morning shows into booking a fake chef who made disgusting gastronomical concoctions. Hilarity ensued. » 3/03/14 1:45pm 3/03/14 1:45pm

If you're looking for a way to prank your parents the next time you're back home, you might want to consider ripping off young Twitter upstart @samiwert. Recently, when the teen's parents were out of the house for an afternoon, Sami replaced all of the family photos with Google-searched images of a despondent-looking… » 2/06/14 3:31pm 2/06/14 3:31pm

Oh, that Sacha Baron Cohen! What a cut-up! Always putting on accents, wearing silly mustaches, pulling pranks and causing a ruckus! WHAT'LL THAT GUY DO NEXT??? » 11/11/13 11:15am 11/11/13 11:15am

Patrons at S'nice in the West Village recently received a side of HOLY CRAP WTF with their delicious vegan cupcake and morning joe. » 10/08/13 9:30am 10/08/13 9:30am

I've started (semi-jokingly) telling people I'm "pro-revenge" as a rule — it seems proactive — but I am not pro-making someone's live miserable, even if they dumped you. Here's a way to get back at your ex without fucking her over in the long-term. » 9/24/13 6:20pm 9/24/13 6:20pm

New York Fashion Week is drawing to a close, which means that every human with a personal style blog and a Style.com app for iOs tablet or smartphone will recede into the shadows, muttering about silhouettes and architectural tailoring while gnawing on a lemon rind, until February rolls around. » 9/13/13 4:40pm 9/13/13 4:40pm

Bay Area Fox affiliate KTVU purportedly learned the names of the flight crew of Asiana flight 214, which crashed last Saturday at San Francisco International Airport, killing two. These—"Sum Ting Wong," "Wi Tu Lo," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow"—are not their names. The newscaster's credulous reading puts it over… » 7/12/13 4:46pm 7/12/13 4:46pm

Craigslist, the parallel dimension where you can find a reasonably priced and barely stained couch as quickly as you can find a free handjob, is not to be trifled with, especially if that trifling involves the “casual encounters” section. Unfortunately, a Wisconsin man learned his lesson about not using Craigslist to… » 5/23/13 10:30pm 5/23/13 10:30pm

In an awful, cringe-inducing, stupid prank that was also an epic waste of time and resources, the Today show and Joe Jonas concocted an elaborate ruse that painfully unfolded on live TV this morning. » 4/11/13 4:30pm 4/11/13 4:30pm

File under sad but makes sense: Jacintha Saldanha, the nurse who killed herself after falling for a widely-publicized prank by two DJs pretending to be Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles inquiring after Kate Middleton's morning sickness, had tried to commit suicide twice before. » 12/24/12 2:00pm 12/24/12 2:00pm

Jacintha Saldanha, the British nurse who killed herself after falling for a Australian radio station's prank phone call and giving up private medical information about Kate Middleton's royal pregnancy, wrote not one, not two, but three suicide notes before she hanged herself last Friday. » 12/14/12 9:30am 12/14/12 9:30am