A celebrity soundboard is usually a collection of sound bites from celebrities. The soundboard is usually collected from movie audio, interview clips, and general sound bites. They can be found pretty much anywhere you might find any audio: on line, on CDs, and on MP3s.

Perhaps the most common use for celebrity sound bites is for placing prank phone calls to friends, family, and even complete strangers. The sound bites from the soundboards are loaded, usually, from a website. The “prankster” then strings together bits of sound to create messages or to put together a script. The arrangement is then used to trick others via phone into thinking they are being called by the celebrity or some other premise.

The majority of celebrity soundboard websites encourage such prank phone calls. On many of the sites, in fact, surfers are encouraged to place prank phone calls, and if they manage to put together a particularly humorous call, they can email or upload the audio of the call to the site. From there, viewers of the site can listen to and even emulate the calls of other celebrity soundboard fans.

At first glance, it would seem that celebrity soundboards would violate copyright laws. However, after some research and website surfing, it seems that they are legal, or most movies companies, celebrities, and television networks feel they are not worth the fight. Either way, celebrity soundboards are a growing source of entertainment by web surfers everywhere. To see just how popular they are, one only needs to go to a favorite search engine. Type in “celebrity soundboard” and the overwhelming number of hits to sites with soundboard downloads, phone pranks, and prank ideas is proof enough that celebrity soundboards aren’t going anywhere any time soon.