Alan Funt would never make it today.
Alan Funt? Is he the guy that looks like Robert Knovak?
Ha! I just wrote the same thing!
Here’s a truly cruel practical joke that could have caused a heart attack. The late, great comedian and comedy writer, Pat McCormick, had a replica made up of his tiny newborn. Sitting on a balcony with his wife, he said he couldn’t stand the baby anymore. He grabbed the replica and heaved it overboard.
Needless to say, that precipated divorce proceedings.
There are practical jokes and then there are practical jokes—
He probably set the stage for many of the prank shows nowadays.