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Tributes have been paid to Michael Locke, star of MTV stunt and prank series Dirty Sanchez, who has died aged 47.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Eventually, a group of 20 people came into the meeting all wearing glasses as a prank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

What’s something that intrigues you about the prank?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The company claimed an unfinished code left in the system, part of a prank, led to the crash.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Then, certain it had been only a prank, 1 started down the side street toward well-lighted Dryades, where I knew I would be safe.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

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

The 28-year-old, known for his pranks and efforts to stand in local elections, manages NDL FC, based off his brand the Niko Defence League.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

Prime Video’s award-winning series returns with a new unwitting hero, who is hired as a temp at a hot sauce company — gentle, funny pranks ensue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026

The family followed these directions to the letter; they couldn’t risk missing Leila or Frankie, whose childhood pranks “would fill a book.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

She’s in and out handling principal stuff: a parent protesting her daughter’s F; a pranked substitute teacher crying; a broken window.

From "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander

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

Robinson is more interested in pranking us with psych-outs than sinister scares.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025

To be honest, considering the time we spend pranking and goofing, we don’t spend that much time laughing.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman