In news that feels like it should be bookended by the word “Bro,” MTV is bringing back the Ashton Kutcher produced celebrity prank show, “Punk’d.” “THIS IS GREAT NEWS!” said the marketing director for Von Dutch and literally no one else I can think of.
After months of rumors, MTV is officially reviving the hidden-camera prank classic, ordering a new version of Punk’d to series. Jason Goldberg and Ashton Kutcher are back on board as executive producers. But the show’s host is…
… a different question. MTV plans to announce the show’s host/hosts during its New Years Eve party live telecast next week. Access Hollywood reported months ago that a new show was in the works, using different celebrity hosts for each episode — and noting in the premiere that Justin Bieber is the man in the van. [EW]
Between this news and NBC bringing back “Fear Factor,” it’s beginning to look like 2012 is going to be the second coming of the douche. Seriously, I thought we killed all this crap years ago. Now it looks like we’re only a month or two from someone greenlighting a show called “Bro, U Got Punched Bro” hosted by Fred Durst that airs four hours a week in primetime. This simply will not do.
As I think more about this, though, I realize this news may not be all bad. Don’t get me wrong, there is still is 0% chance I watch an updated version of “Punk’d.” BUT, if it is going to be hosted by Justin Bieber, even in a one-shot guest role, that means there’s at least a chance he tries to Punk Ron Artest and I log into Tumblr one morning to find a GIF of Artest bopping him so hard on the head that he ends up buried in the ground up to his neck like in a cartoon. That would make all this worth it.
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NO. Ashton Kutcher is the worst and should be doomed to live out the rest of his annoying life in total obscurity. Why do you insist on these things, MTV?!
As douchey as Fear Factor is, Punk’d is douchier. At least Fear Factor has girls in bikinis.
Say what you will about Ashton Kutcher, but that time where he married Demi Moore for six years and then abandoned her right when she got old, thereby ensuring that she’ll die alone and unloved? Man, that was a pretty good prank.
LOL that celebrity was put in an awkward situation they could easily get out of! HILARIOUS WHO COMES UP WITH THIS STUFF?!
Why does the entertainment industry keep wanting to bring back things from the early aughts? That was a REALLY crappy time for America. Do you really like 9/11 that much Hollywood? WELL!? DO YOU!?
I haven’t heard the word ‘bopping’ in a while. I miss it.
“NYHEH!” is the phonetic spelling of the one-syllable noise I imagine Kutcher is making in that picture.
The greenlighted show would be “Bro, U Got Iced Bro” and it’d star Matt Leinart shortly after he’s let go by the Houston Texans.
/sits back and pops the….popcorn
That’s Metta World Peace to you, broseph! Or whatever the fuck he calls himself.
If they insist on rebooting “Punk’d” the least they could do is add in some “Fear Factor” flavour, and not the savoury flavour of a sidewalk cigar. No, I’m talking about some actual Fear. Get the most effeminate guest hosts possible (Bieber is a good start), and have them Punk an NFL linebacker. They could do theme shows where all the Punkees are International Rugby players, or death row inmates. Maybe an extreme rendition guard or two, ’cause I would watch the Hell out of that.
You guys are going about this all wrong. The reason they’re bringing it back is because it’s America who’s getting punked. We thought we were done with this shit, and Ashton, and the “bro” mentality. But MTV is gonna show us that, no matter how much time passes, no matter how dated and stale things get, no matter how much (or in this case, how little) talent it takes to make people like Ashton, Snooki, and Lady Gaga into millionaires, as long as kids and teens keep watching, we’ll never see or hear the last of them. They will never go away. Unless Lindsay Lohan/Paris Hilton/Jersey Shore die in a fire, they are here for good.
I propose that THIS is just his most elaborate punking ever. *kisses fingers* Mwwaaa! Sir, I applaud your sense of the absurd and idiotic.
Announcing that Punk’d is coming back ruins the surprise that nobody wanted.
I like the idea of using a different celebrity each week. I foresee an Inception style punking whereby the Guest Punker is actually the Punkee by the REAL Guest Punker….Who, himself, may ACTUALLY be getting punked…..perhaps by the Original Guest Punker who he thinks HE’S in fact punking.
I’m just kidding….I don’t like any part of them bringing back this show.