We now get laid that it took no more than eight years following the innovation of the telephony for hoi polloi to take in the comedic potentiality of playing hard-nosed jokes via landline .
Paul Collins , aka “ The Literary Detective , ” claims to have find what he believes to be the first recorded evidence of a japery phone call in a paper printed in 1884 . We ’ve let in a transcript of the report below , but here ’s a transcript in character you have any hassle translate it :
A GRAVE JOKE ON UNDERTAKERS — Some malicious wag at Providence R.I. has been playing a grave practical antic on the undertakers there , by summoning them over the telephone to bring Deepfreeze , candlestick and casket for soul allege to be dead . In each character the denoument was highly farcical , and the reputed corpses are now track down in a lively manner for that telephone operator .
Is anyone else as proud of as I am to learn that mass have been crank - calling one another for almost as long as we ’ve had speech sound ? On another note , I ’m thinking of starting a band called “ The Malicious Wags . ” Who ’s with me ?
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