Masked Avengers
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The Masked Avengers are a Canadian radio duo, made up of disk jockeys and comedians Sebastien Trudel and Marc-Antoine Audette, known for making prank calls to famous persons by pretending to be government officials or officers in charitable organizations.
On January 27, 2006, they tricked Jacques Chirac into believing that Chirac was speaking to new Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a prank which Chirac took with good humor. In August of 2005, the pair got Britney Spears to take a call by pretending to be Celine Dion (they claim to have previously pranked Dion herself). As Dion, they proposed to Spears that "Tiger Woods, one of my personal friends, just promised me he's going to sing a very special song in duo with you and it's going to be called 'Let's Make a Hole in One'", to which Spears responded with enthusiasm.
Past victims of such pranks have included Irish rock star Bono, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve, and flamboyant U.S. tycoon Donald Trump (pranked on April 1. 2005).
Working mostly in French, except for their international crank calls, they host the drive on CKOI 96,9 FM in Montreal (Canada's most listened radio with over a million listeners) and are known to their Quebec fans as 'Les Justiciers Masqués'.
