Eric André on Pranking Chet Hanks: "You Gotta Break a Couple Eggs to Make an Omelet" (EXCLUSIVE)

Feb. Nine 2024, Published 1:02 p.m. ET

Comedian and prankster Eric André is again on tour in 2024, and he’s extra ready than ever to convey his wild pranks at the highway. Known for startling celebrities with silly pranks, Eric has had his fair proportion of complex relationships as a result of the character of his paintings. In reality, when running on The Prank Panel, he significantly had to clean things over with fellow prankster Johnny Knoxville to continue working on the display.

Eric’s beef with Chet Hanks has made headlines in recent years as the two personalities feuded online. So, Eric spoke with Distractify about his revel in as a professional prankster, and comedian, and what that means for his relationships with fellow celebs.

Plus, can we be expecting a Bad Trip sequel on Netflix?

Eric’s beef with Chet Hanks started after he seemed on ‘The Eric André Show.’

Fans thought that Eric and Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson's son Chet could have simply been playing us with a pretend (albeit entertaining) feud bearing in mind both of their trolling reputations. But Eric confirmed to Distractify in 2024 that the beef was once real.

“I feel that man is legitimately mad at me,” he explained with a grimace. “I in point of fact can’t take note why he was once mad at me in the first place … He were given truly mad at me and I was like, ‘Wait, what am I in hassle for?’”

In a separate March 2023 interview with Distractify, Eric known as Chet “one in every of my very best buddies,” which means that within the remaining year, their courting unfortunately did damage down on account of the drama.

Leading up to Season 6 of The Eric André Show, Eric gave several interviews to promote the new season. In his now-famous interview with Rolling Stone, by which he also acknowledges his short-lived relationship with Emily Ratajkowski, Eric known as out Chet Hanks for some unhealthy conduct on the set of the Adult Swim display.

“Chet Hanks … was once a tough cookie,” Eric stated. “He broke our crew. It felt like Rust. He broke us down.” Chet Hanks is the older son of movie stars Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, whose more youthful son, Truman Hanks, was born five years later.

Chet is an actor like his folks but has a name littered with drug dependancy and abuse allegations.

“He is … emotionally disturbed,” Eric added to Rolling Stone. “He stole a motorbike and rode it round. He nearly knocked a bunch of grips and gaffers off their ladders. It was once very bad. He attempted to prank us again, but we edited out all his bullsh--! He’s now not neatly. How did Colin Hanks come out so good and Chet Hanks come out so bad?”

After the interview used to be published, Chet got here back at Eric with his personal words about what happened in a since-expired Instagram tale.

"I [saw the show was] on some really weird, outlandish troll s--t, so I'm like, 'Alright, I'll match that energy'...thinking that he would get it,” Chet said. “At one point, he has a dude come and jump a dirt bike on the stage.”

“Well, he must not have known that I ride dirt bikes because I picked that s--t up and started riding it around the set. Everybody’s like, ‘No, no, no, don’t do that. You could get hurt!’ I’m like, ‘Chill I just popped a little wheelie.’ I put the bike down. When I came out and sat down, he seemed genuinely nervous, just being around me. There's a lot of f--king weirdos in Hollywood, but I didn't think you were one of them, I thought you were funny and cool, but turns out you're just a p---y."

Eric didn’t love this and jokingly demanded to peer Chet’s DNA to prove he’s if truth be told Tom Hanks’ son. Hopefully, it blows over soon.

“You gotta damage a pair eggs to make an omelet,” Eric properly identified to Distractify. Every prank has its risks, however every now and then, the ones risks are worth it, akin to in Eric’s Netflix movie, Bad Trip.

Eric André continues to paintings on pranks while teasing a sequel to ‘Bad Trip.’

As Eric tours, he’s additionally working to make his show better each and every time. After all, he is an expert within the field of pranking. Why not bring that to the stage? “I believe the name of the game to a just right prank is to have a good comedic idea, a just right premise, but you also must devote,” Eric reveals about his pranking recipe for success.

“You must commit and you have to have a plausible premise in the beginning to truly stay someone on the hook.” Sometimes, this will have its downsides, comparable to what happened with Chet.

On the upside, Eric’s career as a professional prankster has taken his popularity to new heights as he works alongside Johnny Knoxville and continues running on prank-centric projects.

One of his all-time favorite pranks was once if truth be told in the Netflix film, Bad Trip, with Tiffany Haddish. “Tiffany Haddish is within the bottom of a jail bus. She breaks out of a jail bus in front of this man. So I'm weirdly extra happy with that than the rest,” he said. “I fought arduous to supply that. People kept trying to communicate me out of doing that bit … We constructed this little thing that she may cover in beneath the bus.”

When requested if he’ll make a sequel to Bad Trip, Eric may just “neither ascertain nor deny,” but he added that he “wish to.” We’ll take that as a just right signal for another dangerous travel.

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7pbXSramam6Ses7p6wqikaKhfmr%2Bqr4yapZ2qlWKwqbHTZp%2BappuoeqOxxJ8%3D