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A Farr Is Born
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
A 250-pound dwarf named Bleachy and ’70s soft rock pioneer Christopher “F*cking” Cross are on the line for you. Well, not really—your life isn’t that exciting—but you can simulate the experience with “Just Farr A Laugh Vol. 1 & 2: The Greatest Prank Phone Calls Ever!” The collection is a reissue of long out-of-print punkings by Andrew Earles and Jeff Jensen—Jensen being a former Kansas City resident and current KU “star f*cker.” “Just Farr A Laugh” is less about humiliating the poor recipients of the calls and more about creating a sadly believable alternate reality where Morris Day really wants to party at Coyote Ugly and a man who goes by “Ditchweed” is positive that a PT Cruiser will solve his mid-life crisis. Jeff Jensen joined us by theme-appropriate phone in Brooklyn while making his friend some nachos.
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