Six classic prank phone calls to cheer you up

"I don't own a dog!" *woof woof*

Be warned:when you call an Irishman to make fun of him, you'll get some bad language.

There is something absolutely joyous about a good, childish prank call.

When you search YouTube every day for videos to share with your site's audience, you come across some great old stuff that gets re-uploaded and recycled, from the days before Facebook and Reddit when some creative effort was required to get a kick.

Including the great pantheon of prank phone calls – and here are six absolute belters.

God bless you, radio DJs.

1. "Can you blow up my school, or knock it down?" "Whatever you want" – Little Becky

This is the clip that got us started here. Little Becky did lots of prank calls for radio when she was just eight years old, and they're absolutely classic. Check out her call to Everton football club.

2. "A meteorite must'a hit the phone line" – two Garda stations ring each other

It's the simplicity of this setup that makes it gold. The confusion involved when neither person rings the other, and both think they've been called.

Also, meteorites.

3. Monaghan man wants to buy a Peugeot

Completely not safe for work after a minute.

4. ”I’ll pour you into a concrete overcoat” – Cork radio pranks a jealous husband

Classic setup. Husband misses a wedding for work, so for a laugh, she gets the radio to call him up and pretend to be a Lothario from the trip.

Hold on now, sunshine. I’ll pour you into a concrete overcoat.

http://youtu.be/WYiJOy7DLsE

5. "No, I've no dogs" *woof woof* The dog licensing authority

Ah, poor Mr. Kelleher in West Cork. He was the subject of several wind-up calls from the radio in the 2000s because … well, he's brilliant. This clip is from the "dog licensing authority" and features him swearing he's no dogs at all - even when they start barking in the background.

"Dublin!? Sure that's miles away. How the f*** are you going to stop me!"

6. Block Fight

Long before Viper Higgins was chilling in Montrose with Hardy Bucks, he was making prank phone calls for kicks. This one's just brilliant because he calls up a "hard man" about that fight they never got around to.

It doesn’t matter that the guy on the other end has no idea who he is or what he's talking about. When someone calls for a fight, you've got to start strutting your stuff, aye?

Honorary mentions go to this one from Cork 96 FM showing how to confuse the hell out of someone, and this cringe-worthy mess of a prank call where the DJ accuses his mate of back-stabbing him … only to find out that yeah, that pretty much happened.

By the by - prank calls may well be illegal in Ireland. There's a section of the Post Office Act that covers threatening or harassing by phone that can carry pretty hefty fines.

Just so you know.