29 Pranks By Famous People We're Glad We Weren't On The Other End Of

Being incredibly talented, rich and famous is not always easy. Yes, there's money, private jets, fancy dinners and hangers on. But there's alsos endless media scrutiny. Peer and career pressures. Law suits. Insane stalkers. Addiction issues.

The thing is, everyone needs an outlet. Everyone needs to let off some steam once in a while. For these celebs? It's pulling the friggin' prank of the century from time to time. We sure are glad we weren't on the other end of these absolute WHOPPERS.

Pranks are fun when you're the one pulling them… and you know what? Sometimes even when you're on the receiving end. The rich and famous have come to the same conclusions, and here are some of our favorite examples.

We uncovered some absolutely wild pranks on the sets of some of our favorite movies. It came as an absolute surprising to no one that there was a $60,000 prank budget on the set of Airplane!

Scroll down for examples that left us speechless…

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On the set of The Office, Mindy Kaling made up weird lies for BJ Novak. They came out of nowhere, and they were just trolling - for example, she claimed that the show's casting director was also the third lead in Cold Mountain. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Movies & Shows With Ridiculous On-Set Pranks**

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Amy Schumer gave Judd Apatow a scare when they were filming Trainwreck. In a restaurant, knowing he was around, she ordered wine and made it look like they were deciding on a bottle - which made him super-nervous because he thought they'd be late to the set. She filmed the reactions at his table. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Movies & Shows With Ridiculous On-Set Pranks**

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Bobby DeNiro pranked his co-star Nat Wolff on the set of The Intern. When he was chewing gum, DeNiro told him he should put it under the table, and when Wolff did that, DeNiro started going on about how Wolff was putting gum on the set. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Movies & Shows With Ridiculous On-Set Pranks**

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The writers of Airplane! spent $60,000 on a practical joke. They bought a racehorse, named it All Pink, and told the jockey to ride close to the inside rail rather than trying to win, all so they could hear the announcer say ...and it's All Pink on the inside! They tried it with three horses over four years, and pulled it off in 1993. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Bizarre Pranks Pulled By Famous People**

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Jim Carrey went to the 1999 MTV Movie Awards disguised as a wild-haired, Jim Morrison-like hippie. Не didn't tell anyone about the disguise, including his friends, so Samuel Jackson talked to him for 15 minutes without knowing who he was. Later, he asked Carrey Man, why'd you do that to me? CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Bizarre Pranks Pulled By Famous People**

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One time, Alfred Hitchcock threw a dinner party and colored all the food blue. Club Special Everything, from the soup to the trout to the peaches, was blue - - even on the inside. Не did the same thing at another dinner party later, but this time, even the flowers and the silverware were blue. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Bizarre Pranks Pulled By Famous People**

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Daniel Radcliffe got pranked by Alan Rickman on the Harry Potter set. When the students were on the floor in sleeping bags in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Rickman put a farting machine in Radcliffe's sleeping bag (and Radcliffe kept his bag next to a girl he was into). CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Movies & Shows With Ridiculous On-Set Pranks**

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On the set of In Good Company, Topher Grace was pranked by Dennis Quaid. Quaid sent his stand-in to act opposite Grace for a scene, and Grace thought that was Quaid being a diva and got annoyed - but he was just getting trolled by Quaid, who was watching everything from the bar. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Movies & Shows With Ridiculous On-Set Pranks**

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Justin Long puked all over Bruce Willis on the Live Free or Die Hard set. It was on purpose - they were in a car that was getting swung around for a stunt, and he had an assistant bring him some oatmeal. When the ride was over, Long unloaded all the oatmeal in his mouth in Willis. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Movies & Shows With Ridiculous On-Set Pranks**

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George Clooney pranked a co-star back in the '90s on the TV show ER. Не convinced his co-star Noah Wyle that they should both send producer Steven Spielberg nasty notes, but Clooney never sent his (and Wyle did). CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Movies & Shows With Ridiculous On-Set Pranks**

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Sophie Turner and Jessica Chastain pranked James McAvoy once. It was on the Dark Phoenix set - when he was suspended on wires for a stunt, they played the Macarena and had the stunt guys puppeteer him to the beat. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Movies & Shows With Ridiculous On-Set Pranks**

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Brad Pitt made an elaborate, Wham!-themed prank on the Moneyball set. Jonah Hill had a golf cart, and one day, Pitt turned it into a Wham! fanmobile complete with a I'm Jonah Hill and I Love Wham! sign. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Movies & Shows With Ridiculous On-Set Pranks**

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LBJ liked to troll people with his amphibious car. TX-1919-AZ He'd take guests on a tour of his ranch in the car, then go towards the lake at full speed and scream that the brakes weren't working before the car safely entered the water. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Bizarre Pranks Pulled By Famous People**

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The Who drummer Keith Moon destroyed a hotel suite and got the hotel to pay. Не tried to get the waterbed out of the fancy suite, but it burst, flooding everything. So he wouldn't get stuck with the bill, he called the manager, claiming it burst for no reason, and demanded something be done -- so they apologized and moved him into the Presidential Suite. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Bizarre Pranks Pulled By Famous People**

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Princes Harry and William pranked Her Royal Highness with a voicemail message. In 2017, the Queen asked them to record an answering machine message for her, and they recorded Hey wassup! This is Liz. Sorry I'm away from the throne. For a hotline to Philip, press one. For Charles, press two. And for the corgis, press three. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Bizarre Pranks Pulled By Famous People**

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Steve Jobs once called Starbucks and asked for 4,000 lattes. It was the first ever public call with an iPhone, made on stage at the iPhone's unveiling, and it ended with him saying No, just kidding. Wrong number. Goodbye! CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Bizarre Pranks Pulled By Famous People**

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Rapper The Game put a police number out of commission for two hours. Не told his 580,000 Twitter followers that they should call a number if they want to score an internship with him, but that was the number of an L.A. police station. After the line went down for two hours from all the calls, police captain Mike Parker tweeted at The Game to just stop, which apparently worked. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Bizarre Pranks Pulled By Famous People**

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Woody Harrelson made Sean Penn think he was being taken hostage by an armed psycho. It was an incredibly elaborate prank involving Nick Nolte and two cops, and it ended with Penn going to his car with an armed man he thought was taking him his hostage, while Woody Harrelson videotaped everything. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Bizarre Pranks Pulled By Famous People**

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Kevin Hart got pranked by The Rock on the set of the Jumanji reboot. They were shooting location in the jungle, full of spiders that Hart is terrified of, so The Rock threw a big fake furry spider on him just to scare him even more. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Movies & Shows With Ridiculous On-Set Pranks**

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Chloe Bennet got pranked on Agents of SHIELD by lain De Caestecker. Не had the props department make an official-looking license plate that said Ballz Deep, and stuck in the front of her car. She didn't notice it for a month. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Movies & Shows With Ridiculous On-Set Pranks**

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Jared Padalecki tried to make Ruth Connell break character in Supernatural. While she was doing a scene and he was off-camera, he kept bringing stuff like a giant phallic object and a bottle of lube in front of her. To her credit, she never stopped acting. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Movies & Shows With Ridiculous On-Set Pranks**

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Emilia Clarke pranked one of her co-stars on the Game of Thrones set. One time, when Joseph Naufahu (who plays Khal Moro) was sleeping, she smeared caramel fudge over him. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Movies & Shows With Ridiculous On-Set Pranks**

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Tom Holland got pranked by the crew on Spider-Man: Homecoming. They got him a new set chair which was actually a toilet seat. Не posted about it on Instagram, with the caption Loving my new set chair. Thanks guys. Should you really be treating number one like number two. #norespect. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Movies & Shows With Ridiculous On-Set Pranks**

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24 actor Carlos Bernard had his co-star fake-arrested. Не had two of his cop buddies drop by and pretend to arrest Mia Kirshner on a made-up charge, and then he pretended to assault them. The whole thing lasted hours, setting the show back a day (and probably quite a bit of money). CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Bizarre Pranks Pulled By Famous People**

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Donald Faison made Zach Braff think his Porsche was being ruined (which led to a child getting assaulted). t A AT&T VU AT&T VULT ULTURE TURE A AT&T For an episode of Punk'd, he had a bunch of kids stand around Braff's Porsche so that it looked like they were spray-painting it. It worked too well, because when Braff saw them, he chased down one of them (a 12-year-old) and beat him up. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Bizarre Pranks Pulled By Famous People**

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Michael Gambon and Alan Rickman hid a whoopee cushion in Daniel Radcliffe's sleeping bag. On the set of the third Harry Potter movie, for a scene where Hogwarts students camp out, Radcliffe asked to have his sleeping bag next to that of a girl he liked, so those guys put a whoopee cushion in his bag just to spoil the whole thing for him. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Bizarre Pranks Pulled By Famous People**

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On the set of Wolf of Wall Street, Jonah Hill made Leonardo DiCaprio eat sushi til it made him sick. In one scene, Hill improvised and, in-character, said DiCaprio could have the last bite of sushi. So they had to do the same thing on every take, and DiCaprio ate that sushi for another 70 or so takes -- until he doubled over from the pain. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Bizarre Pranks Pulled By Famous People**

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Mel Gibson terrorized Nancy Meyers (the director of What Women Want). Не first made some memos saying there was a madman with a knife running around, and posted them around the lot. Then, he dressed up like said madman and attacked Meyers in her office. After it worked and she got scared to death, he climbed on top of the makeup trailer and laughed maniacally in triumph. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **15 Bizarre Pranks Pulled By Famous People**

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