Argentine Humor ( Dr Tangalanga)

[perry]

Please take a look at a Argentine Legend of the naughty phone calls DR TANGALANGA a 94 year old Buenos Aires native.

Julio Victorio De Rissio (born November 10, 1916), better known with the stage name of Dr. Tangalanga, is a popular Argentine comedian who makes prank phone calls to unsuspecting recipients.
Born in the Balvanera barrio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he started making and recording crank calls in the mid-1960s by way of comic relief for a bedridden friend. Since then, he has released over 40 albums of collected calls, having sold over 250 thousand copies, arguably becoming the most famous prank call artist ever in the Spanish speaking world. He speaks in Argentinian Lunfardo, and his tapes have been praised by sources as varied as Argentine philosophers Carlos "Caloi" Loiseau and Alejandro Rozitchner.

The general form of his jokes is to make a polite call requesting information about some product or service, then randomly insult the person on the other end, generally producing a verbal altercation or exchange of insults. Part of the humour is to use crude words in absurd contexts, exploiting the reactions of his victims. In other cases, he begins the call with a made-up complaint (although often based on real life ones), regarding things that have supposedly happened to his nephew. For example: "My nephew went to get two "matafuegos" (Spanish for fire extinguisher; literally: kill-the-fire) for the car, but they didn't kill the fire, they just injured it."

Click for his classics

The first one is my favorite with a well known argentinian opera singer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtV1Bttvx8I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6JPcX_qDN4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k35oBMq18oQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7rqYYHJe6Y&feature=related

 

[ReemsterCARP]

Es un genio! Me estoy cagando de risa

 

[Lucas]

Dr Tarufetti, be aware of the use of very profane words which may upset sensitive people, all the f words and slang variations are present, listen at your how risk.

 

[perry]

This is a excellent way of learning the local dialect Lunfardo . I like this phonecall its a classic Umbandista Violenta. The insults that come out of this woman turn the tables on Dr Tangalanga leaving him speechless . A classic ( violent coarse language)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib5rz-NhihA

 

[Lucas]

Dr. Tangalanga - ¿Usted Llamó a la Policia?

This one is not from Dr. Tangalanga but it's a classic nevertheless, a must for people who don't know this prankster here he is.

Kerpal

Enjoy

 

[French jurist]

Well, it's not Argentinean, it's American but it's one of the funniest prank call I've ever heard.
Victim is a telemarketer and because of this (the victim is calling, not being called), it really adds up to the whole.
Probably many of you know this one though, I don't know
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmLMcQ09BHc

 

[perry]

Well, it's not Argentinean, it's American but it's one of the funniest prank call I've ever heard.
Victim is a telemarketer and because of this (the victim is calling, not being called), it really adds up to the whole.
Probably many of you know this one though, I don't know
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmLMcQ09BHc

Thanks for waking me up in laughter . This one below takes hysterical to a whole new level when a telemarker rings this crazy old woman .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkE1Nbk-wuI&feature=related

 

[Conrado]

Dr Tangalanga is the greatest. There are loads of people who know many of his pranks dialogues by heart (me and my brother among them).

The tone of voice and the vocabulary he uses kill you. Un maestro.