How to Pull Off Office Pranks

Transcript Jared: I’m Jared Freid and I’m the prank expert. I’m a stand-up comedian. I love good prank because it gets people out of the monotony of the day, whether it’s their desk being wrapped or your baby mama coming in and interrupting a good work day. Actress: Everyone in this office knows that this …

Transcript Prankster: I call this one all wrapped up. My coworker took the day off, so I took the day off and wrapped his whole desk in wrapping paper. Everything. The pens, the phone, the coffee mug. You know what a desk entails. The usual stuff, like a keyboard. I’m even wrapping the stapler. Even …

Transcript I got a great prank for anyone that works with a search typer. It’s called auto correct. A search typer is someone who types while looking down at the computer. It’s probably an older person in your office. Maybe they call this thing the Google machine. Who knows? It’s specifically for the search typer …

Transcript Prankster: Jillian just went to the bathroom so this is the perfect time for the prank, urgent meeting. What you do is you sent out an email to the whole office telling them that there’s going to be a meeting in the conference room. So you take the inner-office email, you keep it in …

Transcript Prankster: I call this next one baby mama drama. What I did is I put an add on Craigslist looking for an actress to play a lunatic to scare my coworker. A woman is going to come in here, say that she is pregnant with my coworker’s baby, and flip out. Is he having …

Transcript Welcome to the birthday party prank. My coworker just got a promotion. When people get promotions, they get pretty cocky. So, we took his office and turned it into a 13 year old girl’s birthday party. This prank is twofold. First is the initial shock of the balloons and the decorations. Second, there’s a …

Transcript This is called toilet paper admirer. Very simple. You take a roll of toilet paper. You write a note starting backwards, from the janitor. I’m going to write one to my coworker Harrison. Now, you put the toilet paper back on the roll with the paper going over the top. You roll it up …

Transcript Prankster: Everyone loves a free office snack. That’s why I came up with the mayo donut. You need some supplies. You need donuts. You need mayonnaise. You need a Ziploc bag. And you need a knife. What you do is you fill your Ziploc bag with mayonnaise. You’re going to push it to the …

Transcript Jillian: Okay guys, I’m going to go ahead and take my lunch. I’ll be back in like an hour. Prankster: I got another great office prank. This one’s called the signature switch. Everyone’s email has a signature. We’re just going to take one of my coworker’s and switch it to something different. Jillian just …

Transcript So look what I found on my coworker’s Facebook page. What would you do? What would I do? Well, I’d do the copier paper prank. Take this picture, we make about, oh I don’t know, 200 copies? Now I have 200 of my friend lover boy here. You take these pages, you put it …

Transcript Prankster: I got another great office prank for you. This one is called the slow mouse. Everyone is trying to get through their workday as fast as possible. This will be the one thing that’ll slow them down. Go to your system preferences, then you’re going to click on mouse. Get in here as …

Transcript Here’s another fun office prank. Everyone has their favorite drink. They might like coffee, maybe tea, maybe a little whiskey in your coffee. I’m not here to judge. We call this the frozen drink. You find out your coworker’s favorite drink and we freeze it overnight, then when they walk away we switch it …

Transcript Looks like I’m the first one at the office. Good time for a prank. This one is called ambidextrous. Everyone is used to the way their desk is set up just because it’s comfortable. So we take the things from the left side move it to the right side, things from the right side …

Transcript Want to mess with your work neighbor? Here’s a great one. It’s called the frozen computer. You’re going to open up a bunch of windows in your own computer. Search for rash creams, Russian bride websites, anything that’s embarrassing. Then you’re going to take a screen shot, save it, put it on your flash …