Captain Janks

Thomas Michael Cipriano (born March 28, 1966), and by the Philadelphia City Paper as "public enemy No. 1 for television- and radio-show screeners." Cipriano began his prank calling career in 1989, when he telephoned local Philadelphia television shows and sent tapes of his calls to The Howard Stern Show.

In October 1999, John Katsilometes reported that Cipriano had crank phoned "just about every emergency [live] report worthy of national coverage," such as those regarding the Columbine High School shootings and the car crash death of Princess Diana. The Associated Press reported "several references to the prank" that were a part of later SportsCenter showings; this included Matt Winer saying that "[Bartman] was so infamous he has his own impersonator." Cipriano prank-called the Denver, Colorado station KUSA in its live report of the July 2012 shooting of the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. The reporter said after Cipriano was cut off, "Apparently, some people taking advantage of live television on a very serious day here in Los Angeles." His explanation for the earthquake was, "Because of the early morning, because it was so early in the morning, most people were at their homes when it happened, and what we believe is this was a rumbling from Howard Stern's butt crack." As of 2014, he is a truck driver who resides in North Wales, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On a May 19, 2014, episode of The Howard Stern Show, Cipriano revealed that he was gay.

On February 8, 2010, Cipriano pled guilty to charges of theft by deception and deceptive business practices; these charges were a result of fifteen cases in thirteen different food and entertainment businesses in the counties of Montgomery, Chester, Berks, Lehigh and Bucks from October 2006 to April 2009, where he deposited from contracts to make appearances at the places but never showed up. He was sentenced by Montgomery County Court judge Steven T. O'Neill to eight years of probation, and he was required to pay $5,926 for the businesses he scammed. He attributed his actions to addiction to his prescription painkillers, and took urinalysis tests during his probation.