We love those fun yet slightly irresponsible chaps over at College Humor. They've given us some pretty crazy pranks that took place right in the middle of big sporting events. See exhibit A:

How do you come back from that public (and it's as public as it can get) humiliation? Well, you wait over a year, and prey on greed, see the most recent exhibit B:

Replace a relationship with the thrill of money, then you pretty much have a good payback formula. Bravo to you, sir.

While those guys seem to be legit in their public mockery of each other, it reminded me of a few pranks that also took place inside a basketball venue.

Just see these two examples: 

In both cases, there's one similarity-- other than getting rejected, it's painfully funny. 

But also, it's fake. To have a mascot escort you out with a sense of irony while you wallow in depression, that can't be real, can it? Knowing the whole thing is a set up breaks the realism of it, but that doesn’t diminish the value of it. In fact, because we know it’s all make-believe, we pretty much won’t feel bad at their (fake) expense.

So the lesson to be learned here is: pranks in front of 50,000 sports fans = instant hilarity. No matter how badly hurt the victim is, it's not wrong to laugh.

In fact, I'm replaying those clips again just to have a few more chuckles.