Why Are Prank Calls So Popular? Prank calls have been around for eons. They are a great, quick way of providing entertainment from the comfort of your own home, they often give long lasting memories of people’s reactions, and don’t require too many skills to make them work effectively.
Sure, there are lots of other ways to wind up your mates or those you feel need a bit of lightening up, but compared to other types of windups such as practical jokes, fake emails, and fake newspapers etc, the prank call still comes out on top.