Many people somehow always find politics as an endless origin of humor. Occasionally, the people we choose to lead us to forget their typical tricks for good classical practical comedies. After all, there exists a portion of our brain that still wants to have fun in the midst of all the seriousness.

In the year 2010, Jefferson Smith, a member of the Oregon House of Representatives, believes that the way bridge the gap between Democrats and Republicans is to keep the most enjoyable interpretations of all time.

At that time, Smith persuaded individuals of the two parties to slip sections from the song, “Never Gonna Give You Up” By Rick Ashley into their messages all while standing on the House floor. And this was all captured in a video.

Source: Cracked

For any viewers who see this, you can say it is really hilarious. Something that really brought two parties together and just having fun. And this is considered clean pranks. No one got hurt, insulted, or embarrassed.

But Prank Calls and Hoaxing Has To End

Wisconsin’s Badger-Herald reported that new legislation had been introduced to ban prank calls as a result of Gov. Scott Walker who mistakenly revealed his anti-union strategy to an aggressive reporter who introduced himself as Tea Party supporter under the name of David Koch. The new legislation will penalize any sort of spoof calls and would impose a fine on a prank call that causes mischief. Fines would start from $1000 to $10000. The suspicious justification of the Wisconsin legislature, it’s just fair to ask whether there ought to be some charges for prank calls categorized as high profile, or whether or not they represent some useful form of guerilla journalism.

Comedy has grown to be more politically right in recent times and in the aftermath of many circumstances not in favor of the victim or the person pranked, there exists a move to curb the media. Victims of prank calls and hoaxes will frequently respond with anger. They could end up being humiliated, embarrassed and believe that they have already let some people straight down. While it is funny in the eyes of many pranksters and comedians, it is not funny for their victims. Much more, it could hit them seriously that it may affect the way they perform their function as a serving body of the government.