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Grimm had a solid record on Israel, but his selection for the honor was a bit out of left field. Receiving a reputable pro-Israel award isnвЂ™t a bad idea for a Democrat or a Republican in a New York City congressional district. She invited my client to sit with a film crew in Washington, D.C., to talk about U.S.-Israel affairs.

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She was happy to inform us Michael Grimm had been вЂњchosen as one of IsraelвЂ™s вЂ70 at 70вЂ™ for his strong support of the state of Israel.вЂќ Her production company would air the feature on DBS, the largest TV provider in Israel, she said.

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(The full email chain is included below.) The short pitch from Ashley Winthrop, calling herself a producer with Yerushalayim Television, was a familiar mix of producerвЂ™s flattery and information. Running a close second is donвЂ™t fall for the scam in the first place.ДЇor us, the incoming email invitation was pretty standard. The best defense is not to act like a jerk, ever. But letвЂ™s face it, when you act stupid and say horrible things on camera, it really doesnвЂ™t matter how you got there. There are probably more resignations coming. If youвЂ™re a Republican, Cohen wants to destroy you.ДЄnd he can: A Georgia Republican lawmaker resigned this week after Cohen, disguised as a colonel in the Israeli army, persuaded him to drop his pants and yell racial slurs for the cameras. He wonвЂ™t set up a piano that rolls slowly away from itвЂ™s pianist he wonвЂ™t drive a car into an office to shock the new receptionist. HeвЂ™s not interested in benign practical jokes.

Today, with his new CBS/Showtime production вЂњWho is America?,вЂќ heвЂ™s even more determined to humiliate. The prank made a previously niche humor publication by a group of college students the lead story on all of AustraliaвЂ™s major news broadcasts with the reaction split between amazement and outrage.Starting with his characters Ali G and Borat, Cohen took FuntвЂ™s early reality TV genre a step further: He mercilessly pranked his guests, leading astronaut Buzz Aldrin into cringeworthy conversations or small-town bar patrons in an anti-Semitic singalong. The Chaser skewed political in a 1960вЂ™s anarchist way as they attacked their least favorite public servants above and below the belt.ДЄccording to The Chaser, the phone number was sent to them via an anonymous text message, and the decision was made to publish it only when Howard refused to respond to anti-war protests attended by as many as half a million angry Aussies. They drew considerable ire when they published Australian prime minister John HowardвЂ™s home phone number and asked readers to call him to discuss his decision to enter the Iraq War. The Chaser began in 1999 as a satirical newspaper started by a couple bored Aussies at the University of Sydney in what was called вЂњan attempt not to grow upвЂќ by founding member Charles Firth.ДЇrom the beginning, the group was mired in controversy.

The ChaserвЂ™s War on Everything pulled off some of the greatest, most irreverent, most controversial pranks of all time, with the crown jewel being the time they crashed a visit from George W Bush with an Osama Bin Laden lookalike. The show ran for just three seasons from 2006-2009, but they took The Land Down Under by storm and scandal before turning their show loose on the international stage, running with the tagline, 'Do you know what it takes to be controversial in Australia?'

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Somehow landing on both sides of the spectrum was The ChaserвЂ™s War on Everything, a satirical comedy series created by the iconoclastic and provocative Australian comedy group called вЂњThe ChaserвЂќ. If we had to identify a Golden Era of pranks, it would have to be the mid-aughts, a period blessed with the acts like Sacha Baron Cohen and вЂњJackass'' that encompassed the full spectrum of prank potential from political to puerile.

The word вЂњprankвЂќ has been completely devalued by the swaths of obnoxious Youtube channels that mistook pranks for mindless public nuisances or random acts of assault.