Comedian Randy Liedtke pulled over by cops for iPhone-shaped cookie prank
Comedia Ryan Liedtke is a pioneer of the new frontier of comedy: internet virality. Less than two weeks after masterminding the now-infamous Kyle Kinane vs. Pace Salsa Twitter feud and the #BringBackMiles hashtag, Liedtke has once again given birth to a another soon-to-be ubiquitous phenomenon: the iPhone cookie prank.
The concept is pretty simple — bake cookies to look like iPhones and then drive around in California (where driving and talking on a cell phone is illegal) talking into the cookie waiting to be pulled over by a police officer, at which point you take a bite of your iPhone and ask something like, “What can I do for you officer?”
Here’s a timeline of the prank, including Randy’s realization at the end that maybe it wasn’t such a good idea:
Made iPhone Cookies to trick cops into pulling me over, I'll just take a bite and ask if cookies are against the law. pic.twitter.com/MBGYAH1hiH
— Randy Liedtke (@randyliedtke) December 9, 2013
OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN pic.twitter.com/S9agLdSJPS
— Randy Liedtke (@randyliedtke) December 11, 2013
Says I have a warrant for unpaid parking tickets? Making me go with him. Letting me text gf but Im tweeting this. pic.twitter.com/vv89MUqg0Q
— Randy Liedtke (@randyliedtke) December 11, 2013
Wasn't worth it. I'm an idiot… No more iPhone Cookies pic.twitter.com/MbQZq0UA9O
— Randy Liedtke (@randyliedtke) December 12, 2013
* It’s important to remember that in this new form of comedy you can never be sure what’s real and what isn’t, So we don’t know if Randy actually got a ticket or even got pulled over. Either way, it’s still funny! Let’s just hope he doesn’t decide to “take it to the next level” by taking a bomb-shaped cookie into LAX.
Now let’s start the countdown on how long it is before we start seeing iPhone cookies at Starbucks…