Move over, Perd Hapley, there’s a new hilarious anchor in town. Minneapolis and St. Paul NBC affiliate KARE 11 sent anchor Eric Perkins to London for the 2012 Summer Olympics, and sure, he did his job by talking to boring, old athletes like Kevin Love and some other people who aren’t funny, but thankfully Perkins took matters of hilariousness into his own hands when he hit Bridge Street in front of the iconic Big Ben clock tower and… get ready to piss yourself… he asked people what time it was!

Oh my God, you need to watch the video right now, because it is the most incredible definition of LOLs and LMAOs you will ever see. Unfortunately, KARE 11 and NBC Olympics are all, “Hey, you can’t embed our videos, you scoundrels!” so you’ll have to go to their website to watch it, but when you’re rolling on the floor in a puddle of your own filth as you scream from exhaustive laughter, you’ll thank me. Oh you’ll thank me.

And after the jump I have another one of Perk’s hilarious on-air pranks. I won’t spoil it for you, but it is anything but a snoozer… *stifles laughter, resumes reading Family Circus cartoons*

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I guess if you’re a Chicago Cubs fan, you’ll look for any reason to be excited about the team’s 103rd rebuilding effort in the last 104 years, so it comes as little surprise that one North Sider is pretty proud of himself after pulling one over on the Boston Red Sox. Cubs fan Eric Engelman (above) is getting some love on the webs this week for a moral victory of sorts after he purchased the web domain JetBluePark.com for $8.

Jet Blue Park is the new $80 million home of the Boston Red Sox Spring Training in Florida, and on a whim, Engelman looked up the aforementioned domain last year and was quite surprised that it was available. So he purchased it and, according to his personal website, what happened next was just pure LULZ…

So, Last year, I purchased my first web domain. The Boston Red Sox are building a new stadium here in Fort Myers, FL and when they announced that JetBlue was getting naming rights to the building I looked online and saw the name was available. The best part? Check out where I have it forwarded to! I don’t even like the American League (see that picture above?), so I just think it’s funny.

And he linked it to the New York Yankees website.

People are making a big deal out of this – some sites are even calling him a cyber prankster and a genius troll – but I’m a little underwhelmed, to be honest. Granted, one of my other 6 jobs is in web real estate, so I see stuff like this all the time and it’s just business as usual for me. But linking it to the New York Yankees’ home page? Big deal.

Give me something I can really laugh at, like linking it to this GIF…

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Streaking at sporting events is a great tradition, like starting the wave or women in their 40s showing their jugs at a REO Speedwagon concert. But it’s generally something that has to be done with great care, because there are certain elements involved that could be greatly affected. Namely, genitalia. That’s why I see this video that is going viral on the intertubes as a wakeup call to would-be streakers out there.

The next time you want to run naked to interrupt a tennis match at the local YMCA, use your brains. Or at least use your eyes, because that window is as plain as day, dumbass.

Video after the jump…

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If you’re remotely familiar with the New York City-based comedy troupe “Improv Everywhere,” you’ll appreciate their latest “mission,” a classic redux of their 2006 adventure, known simply as “Where’s Rob?”

We decided to try the mission again at a Knicks game for two reasons: 1) We wanted to try to get better video footage of the prank and 2) Agent Lathan found a deal on $10 tickets. MSG has a similar camera policy, but technology has advanced quite a bit in the past three years. Flip video cameras are the same size as point-and-shoot still cameras, and some DSLR cameras shoot gorgeous HD video. MSG doesn’t allow professional cameras with detachable lenses, so we had to get a little creative to smuggle in our nicer gear. Agent Sokoler had the best method– she hid her equipment in her bag underneath underwear and tampons. The security guy flinched when he opened her bag and waved her right on through.

If you can’t watch the video at work, you can read about it on their site. It’s impressively done, and really, there’s not much else to do at a Knicks game. I also applaud Rob’s discipline for being able to carry around a tray of food for an hour and not eating it. That’s staying true to your craft.

Some of you caught wind of the bordering-on-immortal prank feud between Streeter and Amir, the two stewards over at College Humor, when we embedded video of the Yankee Stadium prank that Amir, the nerdy-looking guy, pulled over on Streeter that got him in trouble with his girlfriend. Well, Streeter hath struck back with a vengeance, with a scheme brilliant enough that I won’t risk ruining it for those that haven’t seen it yet. Spoilers and exhibits of this-is-fake evidence, however, are most welcome in the comments.

Some douchey prankster types decided to hold BP in the middle of a park promenade and pretend to hit pop-ups and scare the shit out of passersby. Kind of sophomoric stuff, which is exactly why I dig it. If the players are serious enough to be wearing uniforms, wouldn't you feel comfortable that they're going to catch the ball? Nope, you'd probably freak out, drop everything and cower pathetically. I do the same with bees and pregnant women. They say can avoid both by jumping in some water. Or is that by dunking them in water? I've mixed the approaches to see what works. Hey, why's that helicopter shining a spotlight on my house? 

[Bugs and Cranks]