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This Prank Is Probably the Last Thing You'd Want to See After Your Colonoscopy – But It's Still Hilarious
Jack Vale posed as a physician in colonoscopy patients' recovery room, pranking them with things he said were "found" in their colons during the procedure. The prank was done for colon cancer awareness month. (Image source: YouTube)

This Prank Is Probably the Last Thing You'd Want to See After Your Colonoscopy – But It's Still Hilarious

Colon cancer awareness. It's not the most comfortable of subjects, but leave it to prankster Jack Vale -- the same guy behind the viral social media prank -- to add a bit of levity to the topic and get the word out about getting screened.

Vale, dressed as a physician, stepped into patients' recovery rooms where they sat in a post-anesthesia haze, still in hospital gowns, after they had undergone colonoscopies. The prank? He brought with him either an X-ray or a foreign object, pretending that's what was found in their colons.

Jack Vale posed as a physician in colonoscopy patients' recovery room, pranking them with things he said were "found" in their colons during the procedure. The prank was done for colon cancer awareness month. (Image source: YouTube) Jack Vale posed as a physician in colonoscopy patients' recovery room, pranking them with things he said were "found" in their colons during the procedure. The prank was done for colon cancer awareness month. (Image source: YouTube)

Before we go any further, we asked Kyle Coats with the firm Contagious, which helped produce the prank, about patient privacy laws and were told that 1) the video is in fact real (the patients are not actors) and 2) they signed a waiver and gave permission to be involved.

"We had to make sure we didn't do anything that broke any rules of the office, or the colon cancer alliance we worked with," Coats told TheBlaze in an email.

"This was a fun prank but with an even more important message [that] early screening saves lives," Coats added.

Holding up a tablet, Vale showed his first patient an X-Ray.

"You see what that is in there?" he asked.

"It says 'Three's Company,'" the patient said.

"It's a pack of collectors cards that have been sealed, probably since the '70s," Vale continued.

"You found? What do you mean?" the now skeptical patient asked.

"In the … in the colon area," Vale said.

"My colon area?" the man tried to confirm.

Similar pranks ensued involving a toy car, an iPhone, a set of keys, a puppet and more.

"Your colon helped preserve it," Vale said of the toy car that he pretended was found in this dad's colon. (Image source) "Your colon helped preserve it," Vale said of the toy car that he pretended was found in this dad's colon. (Image source)

This woman couldn't stop laughing as Vale tried to convince her that a puppet was found in her colon. (Image source) This woman couldn't stop laughing as Vale tried to convince her that a puppet was found in her colon. (Image source)

Watch the prank but do be prepared for some slightly crude humor, as it is about colonoscopies after all:

"Thank goodness because that's a hard explanation for my family," one dad said of his relief when he found out it was a joke.

"So, you probably don't have an iPhone in your colon, but you might have something a lot more serious," Vale said after his prank. "Colon cancer is one of the few cancers that is preventable when detected early.

The video was produced in conjunction with the Colon Cancer Alliance for colon cancer awareness month, which takes place in March.

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