That joker Alan Abel plays pranks that work because beneath the ridiculous set-ups and crude one-liners there’s an understanding of our desires and fears. In this ridiculous interview from basic cable decades ago, he satirized our wish for youth and immortality, marrying the emerging celebrity culture to new scientific possibilities. He pretended that he’d created a sperm bank in which only stars like John Wayne and Johnny Carson were allowed to make deposits. And he was going to cryogenically freeze a young woman and tour her body across America. Everyone would be famous and live forever.

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• Abel fools “reality TV” by pretending (???) to have a micro-penis.

• Abel promotes faux charity Females for Felons.

• Abel operates the Bureau of Sexological Investigation.

• Abel is a tennis-playing, oil-millionaire sheik.

• Abel pretends to be Howard Hughes at a press conference.

• Abel sells his internal organs to raise cash.