Eric Andre is known for his extreme physical comedy, but one prank nearly got him killed during the making of “Bad Trip.” The prank comedy, currently the most-watched movie on Netflix, stars Andre and fellow comedian Lil Rel Howery as friends who set out on a road trip to New York City.
The production set up prank set pieces in the vein of “Jackass” and “Bad Grandpa” to capture the live reactions of real people.
One prank in which Andre and Howery pretend to have their penises stuck together and go into an Atlanta barber shop looking for scissors to separate them resulted in “the barber searching for a weapon and brandishing a knife, menacingly chasing the fleeing duo” (via USA Today).“Part of my brain was like, ‘Wow, I could die right now,’” Andre told USA Today.
“Another part of my brain goes, ‘This is going to be great footage.
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