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12 out of 15 people found the following comment useful :-
Awesome show, makes you laugh and enjoy TV., 16. August 2005
Author: tahneen23_4 von Canada

Ashton Kutcher is a genius.The show is amazing and you enjoy it when you watch it. If you can punk celebrates and get away with it, you know it's going to be funny because watching your favorite celebrates make fools of themselves is entertaining. hey they are real people, who would know?!?! hey, who doesn't like to see Justin Timberlake ball his eyes out on national TV and have no idea what is going on? It's funny,it makes us see that they are real people and it makes you laugh. It's en-lighting from all of the other reality TV shows, (let's face it we can get sick and tired of watching American Idol) and it brings a whole new meaning to the word, i just got punk'd. So all you haters out there you need to lighten up, and enjoy good TV. So Ashton keep doing what you're doing.

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8 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :-
1 Of The Best Shows Ever!, 16. Januar 2006
Author: iadali

I believe that punk'd is a really good show, and that Ashton Kutcher has awesome ideas. The show itself isn't funny, but seeing the celebrities reaction to the pranks is classic. I mean, come on, is it not funny to see Justin Timberlake or Avril Lavign or any one of the rest of the celebrities be tortured? I doubt celebrities like the show, but it is a good show for the regular people who watch it & like it. If I had to rate this,I would rate it five stars. You get to see what happens to celebrities when they get annoyed, and boy do they get annoyed! Someone who wrote about Punk'd said that it's illegal to do what they do. No matter what people say, I like Ashton and I like the show.

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5 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-
Interesting if you are bored, 23. März 2006

Author: The-Office von United States

Bravo to Ashton Kutcnher for making "punk'd" a household name now and adding a semi-celeb version of Candid Camera. However, Punk'd is fun to watch when you are home bored and want something interesting to watch. It's not for people who want to be shocked and amazed and on the edge of your seat type action. It's predictable and not as edgy as it's protégé Candid Camera, but entertaining none-the-less. I think it would be better if some A-list celebs were punk'd like Brad Pitt, Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, etc. Until then, it'll just be another MTV show that people watch when bored. It's mainly B-list celebs that are punk'd on here.

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Punk'd, 21. Juli 2006

Author: Jackson Booth-Millard von United Kingdom

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In Britain, we have Beadle's About and Ant & Dec Undercover, in America, they have this very good programme with the same type of concept, only a bit bigger and braver. Ashton Kutcher and a gang of jokers basically choose a well-known person, celebrity, at random (I guess), find where they are going, and try to fool them into making themselves look an idiot or really cross. The celebrities they have managed to fool, aka get Punk'd, include Christina Aguilera, Pamela Anderson, Pierce Brosnan, Ray Liotta, Denise Richards, Justin Timberlake, Tom Arnold, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Brittany Murphy, Kelly Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne, Seth Green, Jessica Simpson, Jack Osbourne, Pink, Britney Spears, Missy Elliott, Tommy Lee, Katie Holmes, Ashanti, Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Robert Downey Jr., Rose McGowan, Jaime Pressly, Alicia Silverstone, Beyoncé Knowles, Matthew Perry, Chris Klein, The Rock, Carmen Electra, Tara Reid, Shannon Elizabeth, Kanye West, Salma Hayek, Kirsten Dunst, Joss Stone, Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson, Tony Hawk, Thora Birch, Akon, Adrien Brody, Mischa Barton, Bam Margera, Neve Campbell, Serena and Venus Williams, Kate Beckinsale, Elijah Wood, Hugh Jackman, Brett Ratner, Rihanna and many more. Sometimes you wonder how they got away with doing some of the stunts, as some are bigger than others, but it is hilarious when they do. As far as I know, it was on The 100 Greatest Funny Moments. Very good!

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With sincere apologies to pigeons everywhere., 3. Juli 2008

Author: fedor8 (fedor8@yahoo.com) von Serbia

Ashton Kutcher, star/producer of one of the most idiotic movies ever made ("The Butterfly Effect", what else?), hosts this watchable candid camera show. Now, Ashton, as nearly all former fashion models who broke into the movies, can't act and isn't funny. And it's not like he is merely unfunny in the normal "Saturday Night Live" way; he is shockingly unfunny, quite annoying even. Kutcher seems to think that shouting is a sure-fire method to be funny. Did he study in the French School of Miserable Comedic Timing? The clips themselves are usually solid, but whenever Mr.Demi Ashton-Moore talks into the camera I get a sudden, violent urges...

The other annoying thing about "Punk'd" is the dumb name. The ultra-commercial, hip-hop-loving MTV using the word "punk" for ANY show, but especially one hosted by a geeky 7-foot Demi-worshipping ex-runway prancer? I don't think so.

The good thing about "Punk'd" is that if often reveals the natural stupidity of most of its celebrity victims. Whether it be the blond lady-boy (Aaron) from Backstreet Boys saying "Yo, bro, whassup?" in all earnestness and without a tinge of irony, or Kanye West making an utter cretin of himself by running away with his video's tapes, the incredible egos of these mostly talentless morons come to the forefront and this can be occasionally fun to watch.

"Punk'd" can also be quite educational. For example, I had no idea that Usher actually wears a sock on his head even when he is inside a building, i.e. someplace warm. In other words, it's not just an image thing with Usher - having a black piece of cloth covering his bald, round head, but he actually believes in it.

Still, "Punk'd" is more something to pass away the time with when there isn't anything better on. To anyone who really thinks that Kucther comes up with the ideas on his own: he has an IQ of a pigeon. Can pigeons write, comedy even? I've never seen one do it...

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does he do phone pranks on ordinary people?, 6. Juli 2006
Author: ahung von Calgary Canada

Because 2 nights ago I got a call from a long-distance line and the guy was asking/making some obscene jokes, my last name is "Hung" and he was using the word in an obscene way. I played along, thinking it was a friend of mine, but then at the end, he said "this is Ashton Kutcher and you've been punk'd". He then called back 5 minutes later joking around with me. I guess it did sound like him but hard to tell on the phone. He also made some jokes about his cock or something like that (if I wanted it, if it was big, etc). I wasn't freaked out by the call because I could tell it was a joke, and by someone pretty "clued up". And my name is in the public phone book so maybe he found it that way? Don't know.

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Kutcher has put together a "Candid Camera" for a new star-worshiping generation, but the free-standing improv bits are funnier than the pranks, 4. Juni 2006
Author: howTVshouldbe von star range: 1 - 4, expanded to 5 for classics

Network: MTV; Genre: Reality, Comedy; Content Rating: TV-14 (for language); Available on Uncensored DVD and MTV2; Perspective: Classic (star range: 1 - 5);

Seasons Reviewed: 2+ seasons

Ashton Kutcher has parlayed his looks, teenage girl appeal and "That 70s Show" capital into his own MTV series. Given the opportunity, what he put together is a "Candid Camera" for a new, star worshiping generation. This is "Punk'd" and it has become not just an amusing practical joke show, but part of our language and popular culture.

I never got the appeal of Alan Funt's "Candid Camera" and the idea of watching everyday people get upset and angry over contrived situations, but not really doing anything funny or scandalous.. The "Punk'd" twist gives the jokes a purpose. Kutcher appears in rapidly cut black-and-white introductory monologues and conveys himself as nothing more than a good old farm boy screaming at us about how things are "where he comes from" as opposed to the pampered celebrity world he is immersed in now in L.A. "Punk'd" gives us the opportunity to see rich and famous Hollywood types get a squirming that they so richly deserve (often involving their cars). Well, some of them, like Fankie Muniz, Shaquille O'Neil, and Kelly Osbourne deserve to get knocked down to size, while others like my poor dears Eliza Dushku and Rachael Lee Cook, do not so much. Mandy Moore on Crib Crasher is a classic, as is an epic bit involving Beyonce Knowles and a Christmas tree.

Some of the pranks can be repetitive and uninspired. When the time comes for Kutcher to drop the hammer and let the victim know they've been punk'd, what you'd think would be the big punchline reaction we're all waiting for, it is over before it began. So really, for me, "Punk'd" works best as an improv comedy with a clueless celebrity caught in the middle of an elaborate free-standing piece of theatrics.

And the more elaborate and nonsensical they are the better. Seth Green being punk'd with a raid on an illegal craps game isn't as funny as the detail that Kutcher's phony FBI agent does a Hollywood barrel roll as he crashes through the window. It isn't that Hilary Duff gets punk'd with a driver's ed lesson from hell that is as funny as the detail that her teacher attacks another driver with a bat and a smoothie. It isn't that Kutcher makes Tommy Lee think he's hit a women, but that he piles it on even higher with a bus of Asian tourists pulling up to watch the spectacle. The show is also available on an unrated (read R-rated) DVD, which may be your only chance to hear Hilary Duff say the F-word, at least for a while.

Kutcher is having an unending blast here. He boasts that he can't be punk'd and that he can punk anybody, but it is never quite clear when the punking begins and ends because often the celebrity will look completely unfazed and occasionally will figure it out, but Kutcher still claims victory. But it is still smarter than you'd expect from MTV. At the end of the 2nd season Kutcher hangs up his hat in another effort to stay one step ahead of the smart-alec celebrities and delivering the ultimate punk - this time on the audience.

The show continues for at least 6 more seasons. As it does "Punk'd" evolves. Kutcher is just too nice a guy and becomes too immersed in the Hollywood crowd himself to keep the show without mercy. Very soon it becomes hip to be punk'd by Kutcher. We see it being treated like a right of passage when Kutcher comes out after the prank and gives the young starlet a big hug to let them know that they have arrived. It becomes a sickening Hollywood love-fest of celebrities "passing the punk" on each other. It also becomes repetitive, there are so many L.A. themed-pranks Kutcher can think of.

Kutcher keeps his cast oscillating so that any celebrity watching won't be able to spot them. All are on the same page, including B.J. Novak and Kaitlin Olsen, and pile on the conversation as serious as it should be. "Punk'd" is a mixed bag of work, splitting down the middle between the dull bits and the truly funny ones. Whether it is still a show for and by Hollywood outsiders is very debatable. But as a reality show, a practical joke show and an MTV show it is better than you'd expect.

* * * / 5

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Mean spirited, but funny....except for Ashton Kutcher., 25. März 2008

Author: Tommy Nelson von Long Beach, California

Punk'd is actually a pretty funny show. The situations these people are put in are funny. The actors playing along with all these ridiculous farcities are really great. The fact that the viewing audience knows more than the celebrities is quite a thrill. The main problem with this show, is the host, Ashton Kutcher. He is not funny at all. The host segments are goofy, and Kutcher sits there talking in funny voices and acts like an idiot. I'd almost prefer no host and just to be left in the dark then to listen to his stupidity.

For those who don't know, Punk'd is just a show where people pull pranks on celebrities. The pranks usually have some humor in them, but they are often just too mean. Sometimes these people are brought to tears, only to then be humiliated that this happened to them on a television show. If you like pranks, and don't feel embarrassed for others, this show's probably for you, otherwise, this is good for an occasional viewing.

My rating: ** 1/2 out of ****. 30 mins. TVPG

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Not Very Funny...Not Very Original, 30. September 2003
Author: rickjones von Canada

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***contains minor spoilers***

I did not find the practical jokes very funny nor very original. It appears that the show has a big budget for the set-ups, but no original thoughts for the set-ups. Kory Bassett does a good job as the security guard and the obnoxious kid interviews are mildly entertaining.

I don't find Ashton Kutcher funny. I find him annoying and obnoxious. The set-up with Britney Spears shows Kutcher having a "fake" temper tantrum. Is this funny watching someone obnoxious have a temper tantrum like a spoiled baby and treat his "friends" like crap?

Also, I thought the gimmick was to set up celebrities. What's the deal placing an ad in the newspaper and picking on people trying to get a job as Kutcher's assistant. Not very funny.

If you like mean humour, try "Scare Tactics". It's mean, but you do find yourself unable to control your laughter. If you want to listen to an obnoxious punk Kutcher and watch unfunny setups, watch Punk'd.

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Punk'd isn't a traditional "comedic" show....but its still funny in it's own way., 19. Mai 2003
Author: markymarc von Toronto

^palmer-4, Punk'd isn't really a show thats "funny" or "comedic" in the traditional sense (like traditional comedy like Friends or a Jim Carrey movie "funny").

It's about taking celebrities and putting them in uncomfortable situations (shoplifting accusations, thinking someone stole your car, having unwanted family guests over) AND seeing how they react to the situation.

Do they loose their cool? Do they react calmly?? Sometimes this can be funny in what they say and do in the situation and sometimes it's just plain fun watching them squirm (fun in a good way, not malicious mind you).

And it's better and more enjoyable to watch if you actually know the celebrity. For example, that celebrity you mentioned about the shop lifting incident (the "girl on some WB show") was Eliza Dushku who is in Buffy and Angel. Fans of hers would have enjoyed the clip more because they know her and her work. You on the other hand had no idea who she was (i take it you don't watch Buffy, Angel or any teen movies....too bad...anyway)....so fans or people who know who the actress is, would enjoy the clip more.

True, that Eliza Dushku clip wasn't "funny" in any traditional sense, but watching her react to each situation, and how she got defensive and squirmed and tried to get out of the situation was fun to watch....because we've never seen these people in these situations before. It's just another side to the actor that fans would enjoy seeing.

And that's the main premise of a show like Punk'd. If your not into celebrities and want to watch something that's traditionally "funny", then this show isn't for you. If you want to see your favorite celebs in uncomfortable situations and see how they would react (funny or not) then go see this show. Even celebs that you hate are fun to watch on this show (for instance, I HATE boy-bands and seeing Justin Timberlake (N'SYNC) and Kevin Richardson (Backstreet Boys) squirm and get "Punk'd" was SO much fun and satisfying to watch).

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