Fonejacker. The Fonejacker (Kayvan Novak). Copyright: Hat Trick Productions
Fonejacker

Fonejacker

  • TV sketch show
  • E4
  • 2006 - 2010
  • 15 episodes (2 series)

E4 telephone prank show starring the vocal talents of Kayvan Novak.

Fonejacker trivia

When Fonejacker won a BAFTA for best comedy programme in 2008, Kayvan Novak dedicated the award to researcher Chris Barber.

Follow-up enquiries by the newspapers revealed the reason Novak dedicated the award to the researcher is because Barber has arguably one of the toughest jobs in TV... it is he who has to ring up the victims of Novak's pranks and try to persuade them to allow the clip to be broadcast as part of the show.

A few hours before the broadcast of the first series on E4 Kayvan Novak called into Big Brother's Little Brother as Terry Tibbs and talked to one of the guests.

It is hard to know whether this call was an arranged PR stunt because Novak made no mention of Fonejacker. It was also noted that Big Brother presenter Dermot O'Leary looked puzzled by call.

The girls in the background of schoolboy Stanley's photo are watching a clip of George Agdgdgwngo on YouTube.

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