I don't understand why they brought this show back. I'll still watch it if it comes back in 2020 hoping it improves, but I think maybe this is one of those shows that only worked in a certain time period which is now long gone. I don't chalk that up to poor writing as much as the fact that they just couldn't get away today with the calls they did in the original run because the climate is different, political correctness has to be a huge consideration without creating a scandal (which, honestly, probably isn't a bad thing in general, but is terrible for a show like this specifically). This format just doesn't work well with out edginess, and that's what's been missing. It feels like hooking back up with someone you used to love and finding out how disappointing that can be as well. I don't think it's just me as I still watch the originals once in awhile and they are still hilarious.
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But through this entire 2019 series I only laughed once (one of the Niles Standish calls), a single laugh from an entire series. I loved the original series, there was barely a call that I didn't laugh watching, and I was so pumped that it was coming back. But if you're someone who enjoys a good laugh, even if it's at the sake of someone else, give Crank Yankers a try. Crank Yankers definitely isn't for someone who has a problem with low-brow humor, as most of the jokes do hinge around making fun of other people or toilet humor.
One has to wonder if the people who received these calls ever heard themselves on Comedy Central afterwards and slapped their foreheads in agony.
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Kevin Nealon's performance as a man suffering from OCD who is looking to join a dating service and Wanda Sykes who calls someone to try and free her ass from her toilet are two of my personal favorites. Some of the crankers are completely hysterical in their dead-pan delivery of the crank calls. Some of the bits are funnier than others of course, but the same thing happens with any type of comedy program with sketches, and it doesn't stop the funny sketches from being fall-on-the-floor-hold-your-buns-in-place funny. Since when are crank calls supposed to have plots? The whole premise of the show is a wide range of comedians call up unsuspecting individuals and crank call them in a variety of hilarious ways, these calls are then acted out with puppets playing the roll of the cranker and the crankee. How can someone not find this show funny? The complaints about "lack of plotlines" are just ludicrous.
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