Background and career
Jack Vale (born September 2, 1973) is an American YouTube personality, comedian, actor, and producer who has a YouTube channel featuring hidden cameras and pranks. As of September 2025, his videos have over 748 million views and his channel has more than 1.8 million subscribers.
Many of Vale's pranks are what he calls "Pooter" pranks involving him walking around in public making flatulence sounds, using a handheld device and capturing the reactions of the people nearby on a hidden camcorder. On one occasion that resulted in a physical altercation between Vale and an elderly man (whose wife was the unsuspecting participant which Vale used the device by). The subsequent police intervention led to Vale being banned from that specific supermarket. Many of his pranks happen in Huntington Beach, California; Nevada, and near his home in the Columbia, Tennessee vicinity. Other pranks include "Paranoid", sketches in which Vale, pretending to be talking on his mobile phone, walks past customers in a shop or on the street talking about them to his imaginary conversational partner (in order to see whether they will react with paranoia), and "Nonsense", in which Vale confuses members of the public by approaching them and speaking gibberish. Jack Vale's most elaborate prank to date, which by most is considered to be more of an experiment, is called "The Social Media Experiment". He searched hashtags in his local area and found people in the area. Next, he learned all about the people so he could convince them he was psychic. The video was picked up by several national publications and he made appearances on various talk shows explaining how he did the experiment.
In 2015, Vale's reality TV show Jack Vale Offline premiered on January 13 on HLN, a network owned by CNN. The show gave a behind-the-scenes look at his prank videos and his family life. It ran for six episodes.
On September 18, 2014, Vale appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in a segment he shot with Guillermo and Vale's family using the Social Media Experiment. Vale has appeared on Lopez Tonight, performing pranks on various celebrities at the 53rd Grammy Awards, and performing pranks at a reality television show convention. He co-produced and starred in all 40 episodes of the first season of TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes (hosted by Dean Cain) with Dick Clark Productions when the show was revived in 2012. In 2012, he was the producer for 40 episodes of Bloopers for Dick Clark Productions. In July 2014, Vale made an appearance on The View where he talked about filming Social Media Experiments and the "Pooter". He has appeared on Fox & Friends, CNBC, The Doctors, and other TV shows. He starred as Director Bob in Next Level. a 2019 teen dance film.
Vale and his wife, Sherry, married on October 18, 1997. They have five children: Madysyn, Jaxon, Chris, Jake and Jazmyn.
Sources
Net-worth figure: Celebrity Net Worth (October 2026), in USD. Biography and career facts: the person's Wikipedia article and linked reporting. Snapshot date for all StarWorth figures: 28 October 2026.
