A cursory Google search will find his sparse official website, his Wikipedia page, and that’s about it. One of them being that despite the fact that he has been releasing cult prank call records on independent labels for close to three decades (the first album came out in 1988, when he was 16 years old and it was recorded on his parents’ answering machine), there is very little to be found on the internet about the person behind Longmont. There are several things that set LPC apart from other crank-style comedy. This, of course, causes a dramatic deep pitch shift in his voice, and a squealing feedback loop that goes out live onto nationwide terrestrial radio.
Yet the guitar store guy tries to pretend like he knows what he’s talking about, and hints at a vague desire to jam with him.Īt times he would phone live call-in talk radio financial investment programs, claiming to have a “ surefire investment idea,” only to throw his voice through a digital delay pedal and guitar amplifier once the hosts of the show have taken the bait. Calling a guitar shop, the anonymous Longmont guy asks if any trombonists on staff are well versed in the style of the "Montoyan / Artesian Connection.".) Of course, such a thing does not exist. Requests for products such as a “coaxial rimrod,” some “helium ointment,” or the latest R&B single from Dugan Nash and Orville Sash leave irritable store clerks in a state of utter befuddlement. LPC calls Radioshack, Sam Goody, and GameStop to check to see if they have some non-existent product in stock. This uniquely absurd confusion and rage is created, fostered, and fleshed out before our ears. These calls offer an unguarded, un-veneered glimpse into the reality of these famous peoples’ personal psyches, and, at the very least, shows you at what point certain celebrities absolutely lose their shit. Longmont phones public figures such as Alex Trebek, Ric Flair, Kiefer Sutherland, and GG Allin.
He’s rarely been seen in public since the accident and is undergoing rehabilitation.Enter Longmont Potion Castle, the Fugazi of prank phone calls. The accident killed comedian James McNair and left Morgan with a traumatic brain injury and several broken bones.
The Tina Fey-created sitcom raised Morgan’s profile considerably and he began playing some of the biggest stand-up gigs of his career, though he was in a devastating accident with a truck last summer while coming back from a gig at a Delaware casino.
The calls were played mostly after Morgan left Saturday Night Live and before he was cast on 30 Rock. In the first season, he called the Village Voice to place a personal ad seeking a woman with “strong legs, strong knees, hair everywhere, a badonkadonk butt, stretch marks and a C-section scar.” The Voice didn’t agree to run his ad, though in future calls he tried to sell a video store on his own homemade porno and asked a grocery clerk if her peaches were “waxed or fuzzy.” Picking the best call is a difficult task, but Tracy Morgan’s many appearances as the extremely perverted Spoonie Luv definitely deserve consideration. They called the show Crank Yankers and it ran for four incredible seasons on Comedy Central and MTV2, bringing in everyone from Sarah Silverman and Stephen Colbert to Eminem and Snoop Dogg to record prank calls. Back in 2002, Adam Carolla, Jimmy Kimmel and producer Daniel Kellison had the rather brilliant idea of recreating real-life prank phone calls with puppets.
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